THE EAGLE
Published Every Thursday in the interest of OherryviDe
and surrounding Community.
Entered as Second Class Mail matter August 18th, 1906,
is the Post Office at Cherryville, N. C., under the Act of
Congress March 3rd, 1879.
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MRS. CREOLA HOUSER
(Local and Society Editor)
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SHIP-BUILDING MIRACLE
The speed with which our nation created the most power
ful merchant marine on earth is one of the greatest miracles
of the war. At the time of Pearl Harbor we had 1,340 ships
totaling 11,850,000 tons. Today, according to the War Ship
ping Administration, we have 3,400 ocean-going vessels with
a total deadweight tonnage in excess of 35,000,000.
Thus, in less than three years, we have more than tripled
our shipping capacity despite heavy losses of ships during the
early part of the war.
But even though we have the ships to carry enormous
quantities of arms to Europe and the Pacific, the shipbuilding
program must be speeded up still further in order to hasten
victory over Japan. For it is estimated that it will take almost
three times as much shipping tonnage to blast the distant Jap
islands on a scale equal to that of our attacks on fortress
Europe.
DON’T CASH BONDS
The treasury department’s recent ruling which permits
individuals to cash war bonds at banks 60 days after purchas
ing them, has been mistaken by some people to mean that the
treasury is now encouraging the redemption of war bonds.
We have been asked to warn our readers that this inter
pretation could create havoc in our war financing program and
*• that the continued prosecution of the war depends upon our
not only holding the bonds we have but on continuing to buy
as many more bonds as we possibly can.
The reason for the new ruling, which makes it easier to
cash in bonds, was explained by the treasury as follows: “The
new system was organized solely as a convenience tor those
who of sheer necessity must cash bonds.”
We should all keep that “sheer necessity” phrase in mind.
■So far as the treasury is concerned, it is a “sheer necessity”
that most of us continue to hold on to every bond we own.
LETTER FROM MAASTRICHT
The kind of response which should make Americans rea
lize how much it means to the rest of the world to have our
boys helping to win the war was recently received by the New
York Times in a letter from all the people of Maastricht—a
town in the Netherlands recently liberated by the American
army.
In that letter, which was addressed to the people of the
United States, the inhabitants of Maastricht told of their des
perate life under German rule and their joy over being free
again. They said:
“The pleasant smile of your boys has stolen our
hearts. Their laughing faces, their vigorous and brave
appearance, their kind-heartedness, and especially
their simplicity, have told us that these sons of the
great American republic bear true democracy in their
hearts and that the world may be glad that the United
States has interested itself in behalf of our country
and of Europe.”
„, Any mother, whose boy is fighting in Europe should feel
vi genuine pride in this testimony of the part he is playing as an
t ambassador of good will in building admiration and respect
for our country and for our people.
•V HEART OF AMERICAN AIR POWER
'' If any one underestimates the importance to the United
States of a strong air transport industry, they have but to ,
read a report submitted to Congress by the Committee on In
terstate and Foreign Commerce. It reveals among other things
that: “Three hundred and forty airplanes were taken from
the airlines of the United States for wartime use—a force op
s'' proximately equal in number to the force of air transports
used by Hitler quickly to conquer Holland during but a few
V- days of military activity Our airlines also released from the
< factory production line direct to the Federal Government an
.7-1 additional 310 aircraft
“The airlines contributed able executive officers, over a
} thousand of their pilots, hundreds of mechanics, radio opera
j-7 tors, and others necessary to establish and place in operation
"" the Army Air Transport Command and Naval Air Transport
*.; Service a nucleus upon which were based tremendous achieve
; ments of these two military organizations.
“When war came, too few military pilots were qualified
: for instrument flight and for navigation by air over long dis
tances. They were mostly ‘contact’ flyers. The trained airline
* pilots.delivered the men and material and even led the way ■
. i for military formations to their rendezvous. They were not
Vi only competent flyers, they were air navigators.
“The airlines were also called upon to perform civilian
~ contract services. Planes were ferried and men and materials
t «vere transported to the corners of the earth by them. They
trained pilots, mechanics, radio operators, and navigators for
the armed forces. They overhauled engines and did other
mechanical work upon military aircraft and established and
> operated huge modififyition centers for, combat aircraft.
* “When the history of this war is written the public will
realize the debt of gratitude owed the airlines which.in no
small degree shortened the war and saved countless lives.”
6The Tumult and the Shouting Die’
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SOIL CONSERVATION
Lewis Hovis, R-lj Gastonia, lo
cated at Cro.wder!s Station, rec
ently mowed a three-acre strip of
sericea lespedeza for the second
time. The first cutting of sericea
was baled the following day af
ter mowing and is .fine looking
hay. This field of sericea produ
ced approximately two tons of
hay per acre in spite of tne ex
tended dry spell prevalent in that
section of the county. This deep
rooted perennial is almost a cer
tain hay crop under any condition
and Mr. Hovis jplans to sow sev
eral more, acres.
C. E. Honeycutt, Gastonia, on
hia farm located on the York
Road, is building a new terrace
system with his farm equipment.
The terraces were staked off re
cently and with a disk tiller plow
and tractor, standard terraces
are being built that meet specifi
cations. He plans to complete the
terraces on approximately sixty
acres this fall.
Terrace lines were staked this
past week to be built by the
County terracing units and avail
able farm equipment on the fol
lowing farms: C. E. Honeycutt,
Gastonia; E. G. Petty, Bowling
Green; 0. H. Harrison, R-l, Gas
tonia; Mrs. A. P. Rudisill, Mart
Bingham, B. F. Houser and J. G.
McAllister, Dallas; Oliver Mc
Swain, Cherryville; R. G. Lank
ford, Bessemer City; and C. A.
Wallace, Dallas.
I J. P. Rhodes, Dallas, and J. G.
| Jackson, Gastonia, recently sent
in applications to the state nur
sery for 4000 loblolly pine tree
seedlings. These seedlings will be
used to restock idle lands and to
put it to work growing timber.
Order seedlings early as the sup
ply is limited. Plant those idle
acres to pines—it pays.
Carl Carpenter, R-2, Bessemer
City, located on Paysour Moun
tain, is preparing land to sow a
permanent pasture mixture. He
is sowing a mixture of orchard,
redtop grasses and white dutch
clover. The land had lespedeza
on it and some additional seed
will he added next spring. Lime
stone has been applied and grass
mixture drilled in with complete
fertiliser.
Lester T. Kendrick and W. M. !
Kendrick, R-3, Gastonia, recent
ly shipped a carload of poplar
veneer blocks to a Statesville
veneer plant. This material is in
demand and is being used in the
war effort. The tops of the treo
are being worked up into pulp
wood for complete utilization.
This is an excellent way to utilize
the labor on the farm to the best
advantage during the idle periods I
and for additional farm income |
after crops are harvested. Har- I
vest timber products this winter |
from your woodland and help the
war effort as well as yourself. ;
Timber is vital war material. j
“We wanted no Profit
from the war ... and
we have made none”
II. S. m MAS, r,r*liir >t
/Quotation from »p«*erh acrvptiiifr Certifij• of Anpre
\ elation from Cliiof Signal Ufii(«r UniUU hlatra Army
Though the Southern Bell Telephone Company is now
doing the largest volume of business in its history its earn
ings are at the lowest rate they have been in many years.
This condition has been brought about by the fact that
for a number of years the cost of operating the business has
increased at a greater rate than have revenues. And while
operating costs have been steadily rising, rates charged for
telephone service have been reduced.
Users of long distance service alone art; saving millions
of dollars annually as a result of the rate reductions made
during the past several years.
Though operating costs have greatly increased, and tele
phone earnings are less, telephone wvh are getting more
aervice for less money now than ever before.
E. H. Wasson, Carolina* Manager ;
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"HOW TO WM FRIENDS m*4 <
GO AROUND THE MOUNTAIN
Here’s how one man is meeting changed business
conditions due to the war. Wade Patrick, Brookfield, Mo.
He was selling electi-ical supplies and electric ice
boxes when, all of a sudden, a freeze came down on him.
But he’s pulled himself out.
First, let me tell you a little about Wade Patrick,
because there are very few like him. Maybe not one to
each state jn the Union.
He was a soldier in the first World War, and was as
signed to the job of ground mechanic at the Speedway,
Indianapolis. He fell. It didn’t seem serious at first, but it
soon got worse. Finally his injury put him on crutches,
then, by the time the war was over, into a wheel chair.
He went back to his home and found that he would have
to remain in bed a permanent cripple.
But Wade Patrick’s made out of pretty stern stuff,
so, lying in bed. he launched a business which he could
take care of by telephone. Lying in bed he sold $3,000
radios. Many men with two feet and a car to whisk them
around can’t say they’ve done that well.
He did so well that he took on salesmen and had
them go around to see the prospects he’d contacted by
telephone. It was not long before he had five salesmen
working for him.
He had an arrangement made that would let a type
writer be swung around in front of him. He learned to
operate this, took care of the correspondence.
General Pershing was born in Laclede, Missouri, a
few miles away. He had heard about the way Mr. Pat
rick was conducting a business from his bed, so when he
returned home on a visit, tire old general drove over to
Brookfield and called on Wade Patrick. They talked for
half an hour.
Well, when supplies were frozen, Wade Patrick did
a little thinking. First thing was to get into a business
which would be frost-free. He heard of an insurance ag
ency which wasn't doing very well, although operated by
an able-bodied man, so Mr. Patrick bought it. It began
to boom. In fact, it was not long before he got it operating
so smoothly that he decided to go into another business
too. So he bought a cold storage plant—the largest in his
part of the state—and is selling cold storage lockers to
the people in his section. He has, right this minute, more
orders than he can fill.
Thus Mr. Patrick, operating from his bed, met chang
ing conditions. He has dropped his old business and tak*n
on two new ones and lias made a success of both of them.
That is what we all should do, when we go up
against a condition that is insurmountable. Go around the
mountain instead of trying to climb over it. If Wade, Pat
rick had lain in his bed and complained that the govern
ment had been unfair he would have got just nowhere at
all. So a salute to Wade Patrick who met changing busi
ness conditions from a bed!
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