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r. I'.»^ I - THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1944
IN HOPEFUL PROSPECT
A press dispatch out of Hickory a few days ago related
that additional substantial cash payments had been made on
building funds subscribed by individuals or family groups,
which assure three more new buildings for the campus of Le
noir-Rhyne College as soon as war conditions release matetrial
and men for dammed-up construction.
None of these are big buildings as some educationa. in
stitutions these days run, but they will be substantial addi
tions to a campus equipment that has been steadily growing
in recent years. One would provide a $100,000 memorial sci
ence building, another a $100,000 auditorium (if we recall
aright) and the other a $15,000 infirmary building. The prog
ress made in cash payments seems to assure that the full am
ounts will be ready for all these by the time the buildings can
be started.
In addition to these, a campaign is well under way to
raise, $160,000 for the erection of a church building on the
campus that will be in keeping with the present and prospec
tive building equipment of the college. The indications are
that this sum will be realized in time for this building to rise
along with the others assured.
Enrollment at the Hickory college was not far tim er 600
at last report, despite the fact that the armed services have
sharply cut the number of male students. The |.icsi»euts for
this college so loyally supported by its Lutheran eumeituency,
by other alumni and friends and by the city or Hickory at
large would appear hopeful indeed.
POLITICAL ARITHMETIC
The fact that you can prove almost anything with figures
depending upon the figures you happen to use and how you
interpret them, has become more and more obvious since the
war started.
Of particular interest have been figures on strikes Anti
labor groups have been able to pull out figures to prove that
strikes have caused criminal delays in- war production. Labor
groups have used figures to demonstrate that strike-hours are
so microscopic compared with work hours that* they don t am
ount to a drop in the bucket.
Probably Einstein, if assigned the job, wouldn't be able
to get the real answer as to just how much loss of pioduction
has been caused by strikes.
The President was right when he said that only one-tenth
of one per cent of man hours have been lost by strikes. But
the Republicans were also right when they pointed out that
his figure applied only to the men actually striking and did not
apply to the man-hours lost by thousands of others who. al
though not striking themselves, were unable to work because of
the strikes. The strike of 6,000 transit workers in Philadelphia
which prevented 900,000 war workers from getting to their
jobs, is an outstanding example.
Because of the trickiness of figures, we must watch out
for them during the election campaign. Figures may not lie,
but they are a leading tool for creating false impressions.
V-DAY PRECAUTIONS
News of the end of the war in Europe will affect people
in many different ways. To most it will be a day of thanks
giving, but with the reservation that many long months of
fighting are still before our armed forces in the Pacific.
Whether fires and other damage to property will result
from observance of victory in Europe will be largely in the
hands of individual citizens. Municipal officials therefore are
urged to stress measures which will minimize the likelihood of
such damage. Following are suggestions to consider in con
nection with such prevention efforts:
1. Urge that conditions in offices, stores, factories, and
homes which might cause fire be'properly* cared for before
leaving. Fire guards in office and mercantile buildings should
be charged with the duty of maintaining fire wateh after other
employees have left.
2. Try to prevent false fire alarms. Some cities plan to
•Sfiffn off-duty firemen or auxiliary firemen, or other civilian
defense workers, as watchers at fire alarm boxes.
3. Try to prevent bonfires. This duty could be assigned
to loeal civilian defense fire wardens and fire watchers.
4. Auxiliary police can be used to point oat to drivers
that cats parked to watch parades could obstruct fire depart
ment apparatus which might be responding to an alarm.
K. Urge that children be kept out of crowds; Panic
may easily occur under the condition of excitement which
probably will exist.
V-Day will be a time for universal thanksgiving, but the
observance of European victory should not carry with it any
element that may endanger life and property. .
Heavy, Heavy Hangs Over Your Head
A
BEHIND THE SCENES
• . JN AMERICAN BUSINESS
ftrjow WAPPOC^ ^ J
NEW YORK, Oct. 16. — For
some time to come, retaileis,
jobbers, wholesalers and manu
facturers will have a source of
merchandise and materials in the
surplus property which various
government agencies are begin
ning to sell in large volume. Tnc
sales during August totaled $28,
000,000, an increase of 75 per
cent over July.
While the only market for
much surplus property will be
the dealers in scrap and waste
materials considerable ingenuity
is being exercised both by gov
ernment disposal experts and by
business men in finding ways to
utilize surplus property, with mi
nor modifications, in its present
form.
An assortment of scabbards left
over from last war, for example,
was snapped up recently by a
company which intended to
eonvert them to shoe scrapers
for America’s doorsteps. The
treasury department’s procure
ment division has just disposed of
some 2,000 rubber life rafts of
five-man capacity, with oars, re
pair kit, baling pump, and other
equipment thrown in. The rafts
were bought by sporting goods
dealers who plan to sell them to
summer camps, life guard sta
tions and sportsmen. In offering
a large number of cavalry spurs,
the procurement division adver
tised that they would make at
tractive paper weights or book
ends.
In another case the army had a
half million yards of surplus
cloth for making parachute flares
It was sold back to the manu
facturer, given a new finish and
dyed various colors. Depart
ment stores and other retail out
lets throughout the country will
soon have the material to sell to
American women as piece goods
for dresses.
The treasury Department,
which seems to have the biggest
collection of surplus materials
readily adaptable to civilian use,
has 11 regional offices—Washing
ton, Cincinnati, Chicago, Atlanta
Fort Worth, Kansas City, San
Francisco, Seattle, Denver, Bos
ton and New York. Prospective
buyers are asked to list them
selves with one of these offices.
MINING FOR SHOES—Father
may not have to “dig down” so
often for shoes when miners dig
up the materials out of which
they are made. Shoes are begin
ning to come out of the mines
already with the introduction,
just announced, of Koroseal shoe
soling and top lifts (bottom lay
ers of heels (, and it is said these
synthetic soles, even on Junior’s
hard worn kicks, will outlast tl^
uppers. Koroseal, you know, is
the famous synthetic created by
B. F. Goodrich ccn^pany chem
ists out of coke limestone and
salt, which stretches like rubber
sheds water like the proverbial
duck’s back and is impervious to
oil or grease. The word out of
Akron is that other Koroseal
shoe parts will be available later
including uppers, inner linings,
and ornamental bows. They’ll
make possible shoes in vivid rain
bow hues or paste! shades or ev
en transparent should fashion so
decree) to match any dress, and
with unprecedented non-cracking
and wearing qualities.
THINGS TO COME—Fluores
cent instrument dials for post
war automobiles to make night
driving easier Electronic water
fountains which go on only when
a person leans over to get a
drink. When the light from an
electric eye is intercepted by
YQlir body, the water i« turned
on Miniature storage batteries
which it is reported, will he small
enough to replace dry cell bat
teries and enable flashlights to
operate steadily for 100 days
without going out.
VACUUM PACKED— Judging
by the pace being set by one of
the country’s leading can manu
facturers in unfolding optimistic
plans for the postwar era, it ap
pears that food retailers may
count on an increasing consumer
demand for vacuum packed wares
Only a month or so ago the Am
erican can Company reported
it would manufacture cans, when
torpedo production ceases at its
plant in St. Louis containing
600,000 square feet of floorspace.
On the heels of this, the com- I
pany announced it would build a
$6,500,000 plant in St. Paul to
produce fruit and vegetable cans
And now R. C. Taylor, vice-pres
ident reports that return to the
production of containers in the
company’s Jersey plant, when
materials are made available
will provide employment for ap
proximately 2,000 workers, 600
more than are at present employ
ed. Among reasons cited by Mr.
Taylor for expecting heavier post
war employment in can manu
facture are the continued growth
of demand for canned beer,
which was arrested by the war
indications that there will be a
greatly increased demand for
vacuum packed coffee.
BITS O’ BUSINESS— Zoysia,
a tough variety of grass, may of
fer a new volume market for
seedsmen if experiments are
successful to utilize it for airports
Zoysia grass is said to thrive de
spite crab grass and insects, and
its leaves curl to form a woven
mat The days of dollar-down,
dollar-a-week installment selling
so'popular before the war, may
be gone forever, in the view of
a Federal Reserve official, who
reports that the public seems to
be well satisfied with the present i
controls, while thousands of mer- j
chants for the first time, find j
their accounts on a stable basis. ■.
PRAISE THE LORD—
AND PASS THE SANITATION j
’ROUND THE GLOBE— Hit-'
ler’s “total war” is catching up
with him at last. Already histo
rians are sharpening pencils, to I
wtritfc tomorrow’s history books j
When they are completed, there
will be conflicting reasons for the
Axis’ unconditional surrender
Only tomorrow can accurately
write the story of today.
But when that story is finally
written, one of the vital factors
in the United Nation’s victory
will be the amazing story of all
out health and sanitation, unpre
cedented in foimer wars and
responsible in this one for the
first epidemic-less war in the i
chronicles of man.
The story of health and sanita- j
tion in this greatest of all human
conflicts is a tale of immuniza
tion, medication and sanitation.
How important a part immuniza
tion plays in this global strife is
best exemplified in inter-conti-!
nental flights, itself a vital fac-1
tor in Allied strategy. This has
been .carried so far by airlines
that this measure of protection
has transcended ordinary milita
ry precaution and now includes
wholesale immunization of tran
sient civilians and soldiers alike.
It is because of this that, despite
flights into the sub-equatorial
areas of the world, no epidemic
has been returned to these shores.
Such a high standard of protec
tion was born of this war, and
will be commonplace in the air
ravel of tomorrow.
Likewise our government,
'aced with shortages of vital med
cation resulting from the^ Japa
lese seizure of the Far Eastern
sources of supply, and with the
reed for discovering effective
nedicaments for our Armed for
ces, has developed such substitu.
es as atabrine, a drug substitute
for quinine, which has material
ly reduced the ravages of malaria
among our South Pacific fighters.
In the same way, the war has re
sulted in a stepped-up production
of the miracle drug, Penicillin,
as well as the various Sulpha
and other drugs. These are but a
few of the strides taken by the
United States, resulting from
this war, but already earmarked
for an important role in the post
war years to come.
Of no less importance is the
story of modern sanitation, as
i ciiinlified bv the heretofore
.!e paper cup. Today that
cup is preened in full war
. lia and fighting as determin
. i! and as essential a battle for
liman salvation as do our bayo
•lcts, planes and shells.
Because the federal govern
ent recognized the importance
ot' utmost sanitation in this war
crisis, such modern instruments
of sanitation as the paper cup
were almost immediately pressed
into war time service and ration
eded by the War Production
Board, so that the armed forces
particularly could receive unlim
ited quantities. The War Man
power Commission, too, concern
ed over the needed production,
Our servicemen rightfully were
declared the industry “essential”,
the first concern of an America
at War.
Realizing that the home front
also played a vital part in the
victory to come, WPB extended
such priority to take in essential
war workers, the vital transpor
tation industry, hos]\tals, and
canteens catering to servicemen
and their families. A civilian na
tion, acclimated to the use of pa
per cups and other high stand
ards of sanitation, acquiesced al
most as one in setting aside its
own needs for the duration. Like
wise, the paper cup industry went
on a 24-hour-a-day schedule in a
truly American effort to turn
out the supplies required for the
priority listed categories. It was
only through the all-out cooper
ation of the great American pub
lic and the paper cup and con
tainer industry that it became
•millions of Home Front and War
possible to supply the needs of
Front soldiers, as well as the
needs fo the millions of our Al
lies.
There is no Congressional Med
al of Honor for gallantry above
and beyond the call of duty for
immunization, medication and
the men and women who made it
possible these high standards of
sanitation, but there is the ever
lasting gratitude of the soldiers
on every front, who will have re
alized victory through such ef
forts as these.
How women and girls
way get wanted relief
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CARDUI
One of the pleasures in running a newspaper column
is finding the unexpected appeals that certain columns
have to their readers. Columns that I would never
have guessed would create such wide enthusiasm. For
instance, I wrote a column about mottos. It seemed to me
just an average column, but it brought in a basketful of
letters wanting me to print more mottos. I like mottos,my
self—I guess my readers do, too.
So today I am printing some other mottos that people
live by. For instance, I was touched the other day in read
ing about William George Shedden Dobbie, the hero of
Malta. He was in command of Malta for two and a half
years—when it was the most bombed spot on earth. In
fact it stood up under 2,500 bombings during the time he
was stationed there. He was responsible for the safety of
260,000 Maltese. But he was considered the calmest man
on that stubborn and unyielding rock. Once, in the midst
of an air raid he demonstrated his calmness by leaving
the cave where he was seeking protection and going out
into the open and rescuing a cat. (He took him home and
fed him and took care of him so well that the cat follow
ed him everywhere.)
Well, a man who has successfully gone through 2,
600 air raids must have something to lean on. And he has.
On his desk in Malta, all through these devastating raids,
he had this motto: “If ye lack wisdom, ask of God.”
Herbert J. Grant, president of the church of batter
Day Saints, or, as they are popularly known, the Mor
mons, carries his motto around in his pocket. He has it
printed on cards and when he meets a new person, or
someone he likes, he gives him one of these cards. On the
card is printed: ‘‘That which we persist in doing be
comes easy to do; not that the nature of the thing has
changed, but that our power to do has increased.” How
true ’
Abraham Lincoln had a motto that meant a great
deal to him and which gave him hope and courage to
carry on when the war clouds of the Civil War were
blackest: “This, too, will pass away.”
When General Eisenhower was a young man in Abi
lene, Texas, he had his motto for a wThile on the wall of
his room: “If you can’t be a winner—then make the fel
low ahead of you break a record.”
As for myself, I have had different mottos at differ
ent times, but I think the one that has given me the great
est satisfaction, is one that I have quoted more than once
in this column: “Don’t act as if you were going to live
forever,” a saying of a man who lived more than 1,700
years ago, the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius.
That motto has taught me to get all I can out of life
TODAY, not to put off living fully until tomorrow with
the hope that the prospects will be brighter. Yes, indeed
the time to live and work and love is NOW. Not a year
hence; not even tomorrow. Enjoy the sunset today, smell
the rose now.
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