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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1944
THE ALL-IMPORTANT VOTE
Yes, maybe your vote is only a drop in the bucket, com
pared with the more than 60,000,000 voters in this country——
but the real strength of our democracy can be measured by
how many drops there are in the bffcket when the polls close.
History has repeatedly demonstrated that when the peo
ple lose interest in the role they play in democratic govern
ment, that form of government can no longer live.
Instead of thinking that your vote doesn’t matter, you
would be more right in taking the attitude that yours is the
all-important vote—that' after millions of people favoring
each party have marked their ballots, the votes which are cast
by you and a comparatively few others will determine the
final results.
This year the election promises to be one of the closest in
history. The outcome may well be swung in either direction by
the number of voters who go to the polls.
TWO THANKSGIVINGS
Because there are live Thursdays in November this year,
there will once more be considerable confusion over what day
is Thanksgiving Day. This year, although there are now laws
to guide the setting of the date for that annual event, the
laws appear to be conflicting.
From the information we have gathered so far, 40 states
will celebrate Thanksgiving on November 23, the fourth Thurs
day of the month. This will be in accordance with a federal
law, passed in 1941, which requires the President to proclaim
the Fourth Thursday in November as Thanksgiving. But a
number of states have conflicting laws which instruct their
governors to proclaim the last Thursday in November as
Js Thanksgiving.
The states which plan to celebrate Thanksgiving on the
last Thursday are: Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Nebras
ka, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia.
Texas is the one state, this year, in which everyone may
have two turkeys. For, in that state, the banks, schools, etc.,
plan to close on the last Thursday but the governor will follow
the federal law and proclaim the fourth Thursday as Thanks
giving.
Perhaps each Presidential candidate ehould be asked to
reveal his stand on this question. It might be worth a number
of votes for one of them to run on a platform of two Thanks
giving holidays every November.
blame the moonshiners
Many people can’t understand why sugar rationing con
tinues.
Cuba is full of it and would like to sell. The sugar coupons
are always valid for the same amount. People who like to ruin
the taste of coffee with two or'three spoonfuls would like to
beunrestrained once more.
But it isn’t be uniaticned.
If it were the moonshine makers would buy it by the
'thousand pounds and in a few weeks there wouldn’t be any in
the store. Is it more of an essential in liquor-making than corn
or lye? With liquor rationed and short, the illicit distiiler anJ
bootlegger have been hamstrung by lack ot sugar. Giver* two
weeks of unrationed sugar they would cle.<n out the country.
You wouldn’t have one spoonful for your coffej.
It’s just one ox those things. Don’t look lor more sugar
soon.— i’he Charlotte Observer.
THE RETURNING
“I have returned.”
Those three words are the sum and substance of the
American dream of retribution. They are spoken by General
Douglas MacArthur. For he is back, ae pledged and promised,
in the captive Philippines.
At General MacArthur’s side is an army of perhaps 260,
000 men. An invasion fleet unmatched since the beginning of
the pacific war has shepherded this vast force to the Central
Philippines island of Leyte, where it debouches for the drive
northward to Manila and the rescue of all the lands overrun
by the Japanese in 1041-42.
This "major amphibious operation,” as the Hero of Bataan
((escribes it, has a case history as grim as our resolve in the Pa
cific and as eventful as the 2,600-mile sea and land march
from Milne Bay.
Behind it is the genius not only of MacArthur but also of
Admiral Nimitz and all the Army and Navy High Command.
Behind it are battle names; Guadalcanal, the naval contests
of the Coral Sea and the Kula Gulf, Lae, Bougainville, Makin
and Tarawa, Kwajalein, and Eniwetok, Saipan and Guam, the
Battle of the Philippines Sea and Formosa.
The line goes back, back to the training camps and the
shipyards of America; to the great sub-continent of-Australia
and its neighbor New Zealand, to Chinese and Americans hold
ing the enemy at bay on the continent of Asia; to Chindits in
the Burma jungle; to the strategy planning councils of Quebec,
Washington and Honolulu.
The end is not yet, r the spirit and deicrmaination come
from the heart of America and from the deep spiritual resour
ces of the Philippines people. Asheville Citizen.
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The Real Indispensable Man
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BEHIND THE SCENES
• ^ m AMERICAN BUSINESS
NEW YORK. Oct. 30. — The I
restaurant business has long been
one of America’s major occupa
tional fields, but its economic im
portance was never so apparent
as last year when 30,000,000
guests a day spent the record
sum of $5 billion dollars eating
out.
This wartime rush of business
has about swomped most retau
rants, which, according to the
National Restaurant association,
not only are increasingly con
fronted with a shortage of help
and food, but also of equipment.
Unskilled workers have in
creased chinaware breakage to a
rate of 60 per cent a year com
pared with a prewar average of
around 25 per cent. The average
restaurant is believed to need 64
dozen pieces of silverware, five
dozen salt and pepper shakers and
two garbage cans. By the end of
this year the average restaurant
will need an estimated $1,500
worth of equipment of all kinds,
including refrigeration, dishwash
ers, mixers, potato peelers, anil
broilers.
Though harassed at present,
restaurant men are optimistic for
the future. They believe the war
time swing to eating out will be
habit-forming and assure them
a good peacetime business. For
those who contemplate going into
the business, one statistic of the
association provides “food for
thought.” The cost of opening a
average size restaurant, seating
75 persons, is estimated at $240
a seat.
EASIER TO MOVE — House
wives, farmers, and industrial
workers are going to be able to
move things about a great deal
easier and with more speed in the
future. The reason? Widespread
use of magensium—the lightest
of all practical structural metals
—in consumer products and in
dustrial machines.
Speaking before the first annu
al meeting of the Magnesium As
sociation in New York, Raymond
P. Lansing, vice-president of the
Bendix Aviation corporation, one
of the country’s largest fabrica
tors and users of magnesium,
predicted the use of magnesium,
which is one-third lighter than
aluminum, for household applian
ces, farm tools, sewing machines,
textile machines, furniture, and
in fact practically everything
that moves or has to be moved.
Describing successful pre-war
applications of magnesium, Lan
sing diseased that its use in a
printing press enabled the ma
chine to be speeded up 25 per
cent.
FATALITIES DECREASE —
Encouraging results are being
obtained in the home front fight
against onthe-job fatalities among
the nation’s gigantic production
forces of 50 i-2 mil 'on workers.
Experience so far tnis year indi
cat es that the industrial fatality
record in 1944 may drop as much
as 8 per cent below last year’s
level of 18,000 deaths.
A substantial decrease in fac
tory mortalities was foreshadow
ed in the unusual interest accor
ded the National Safety Council’s
33rd annual congress held in Chi
cago at which a number of mass
employers received nationwide
recognition “for outstanding rec
ords in reducing the frequency
of disabling accidents.’’ Notable
among them, with two awards in
the food section division, was
Schenley Distillers corporation,
I one of the major producers of
I war alcohol. The company’s Old
Quaker unit at Lawrenceburg,
Indiana, was cited as having the
second lowest number of accidents
per million man-hours, while the
Bernheim Distilling company of
Louisville, Ky., which had not
had a lost-time accident since
January of this year and which
has already accumulated over
750,000 man hours without a lost
time accident for the current sa
fety contest, July 1944, to July,
1945, received a certificate of
honorable achievement.
THINGS TO COME — Folding
bicycles, which can be collapsed
into the size of one wheel i'01
easy carrying or compact ship
ment A machine for grading u.
peas, beans and other vegetable:
according to difference* in thei.
specific gravities, thus eliminat
ing necessity . for handling or
sifting Phosphorescent cases
for flashlights to make them easy
to locate in the dark.
BUSINESS EDUCATION —
The Department of Commerce
estimates that '^(JtlO.OOO service
men will want to go into business
for themselves after the war. To
spare them some of the head
aches of starting a new enter
prise, the department is planning
to publish textbooks on the oper
ation of small businesses in vari
ous fields.
It is understood that these
books will not only outline the
steps and procedures for getting
started, but also point out the
chief pitfalls to be guarded
against. Before the war Ameri
cans launched around half a mil
lion new' enterprises a year, but
in the same 12 month interval
nearly that many failed. With the
post-was competition expected to
be tougher than normal, the main
hope for reducing this high mor
tality rate would seem to be edu
cation in the fine art of making
money when not on someone
else’s payroll.
BITS O BUSINESS— Two mil
lion postwar jobs could be sup
plied in the field of distribution
if each employer in the service
trades would hire one more em
ployee, says Eric Johnson, presi
dent of the 1 S. Chamber of
Commerce Latin America is
seen as market for $10 billion
worth of new and used industrial
equipment in the first ten post
war years Johns-Manville cor
poration reports that it filed with
government agencies 71,588 re
ports and questionnaires last year
or about one report every two
minutes during every regular
business hour of the year.
t REV. ROBERT K HARPS t
The Christian and the Race
Problem.
Lesson for November 5: Luke
10:25-37; Acts 10:9-16, 34, 35;
17:22-31.
Golden Text: Acts 10:34, 35.
The Hebrews of Judea were a
proud people who despised the
gentiles and had “no dealings
■with the Samaritans.” Thus Jesus
told the story of the Good Sama
ritan when the Jewish lawyer
asked, “Who is my neighbor?"
The story rebukes a narrow rac
ial pride; its chief teaching is
that one’s neighbor is the man in
need, whoever and wherever he
may be.
Peter was at fust so narrow in
his notions of the gospel that he
required the vision of the unclean
beasts to prepare him for the
coming of the Gent*le> Cornelius.
Then in the coming of the first
gentile convert Peter declared,
“Of a truth I perceive that God
is i o respected of persons.’’
The case was reversed when
Paul appeared on Mars Hill. Not
the messenger but the people a ho
hoard the message needed to be
prepared. The Greeks, the most
Cultured people of antiquity and
whose influence is still felt in
the world's art and thought, re
garded all others as barbarians.
Paul faced a great task in per
suading them they needed any
thing front a lone preacher of the
ospel. He struck straight at the
i tonal pride by telling them that
i has ; made of one b. . a I
..ions of men.” And he clo.sfd
declaring that God commands
,d men e .nowhere to rep. it.
To look well to themselves is
.e fitst great need of men. As
ien get right with G°d. they
should get right in their attitude
toward others. Sharing in the
love of Christ, they will be led to
share with others. Only in the
spread of true religion can we
find a solution of race problems
and a sense of responsibility that
will be all-inclusive.
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TO WMfVCNDS —d fB fUltNd WOWT
DEVELOP SELF-CONFIDENCE IN CHILD
Here is a remarkable example of how a mother de
veloped self-confidence in her child. That woman is Mrs.
Ruth McCready, Louisville, Ky.
Mrs. McCready was a teacher and her husband had
been reared in India, a son of missionaries. 1 hen suddenly
Mr. and Mrs. McCready were catapulted onto a farm,
neither knew anything about farming. T'hey were so poor
that Mrs. McCready had to work in the fields with her
husband.
Along came a child and they named him Karl. As
soon as she could after his birth, his mother had to go
back to work in the fields. She had to leave the child in
the house alone; she came in at regular intervals to feed
and care for him. While she was out in the field, he was
left alone with toys in his pen. Now, you would think that
child didn’t have much of a chance, wouldn’t you?
When the child was two years old, his mother be
came totally blind. She could not go to the field any lon
ger to work, so she was able to be in the house with her
little boy, Karl. She started in a plan to teach him to de
velop self-confidence. She made him look after himself
as much as she could; in addition to this, she made him
do things for her. bringing her things she needed. If he
found something was difficult for him, she did not rush
to him and do it for him. She encouraged him to do for
himself.
She established the plan of praising him tor wnat ne
did. The child responded, and gradually developed an in
dependent attitude.
Then Mrs. McCready had a piece of splendid luck, a
miracle, it seemed to her. Her sight returned. Now she
could guide her son. But she still .followed the policy of
letting him do everything possible for himself. As a result
it was not long before he could ride a horse, shoot a gun,
swim, row, milk a cow, and play musical instruments bet
ter than any boy in the neighborhood. He fitted right in
with his age-group.
The child began to attract attention. Finally a nat
ional contest was started for the ‘‘most typical American
boy ” I had the pleasure of being one of the eight judges
in that contest. It was national in scope; 20,000 boys
were entered.
Well, Karl McCready, the Kentucky farm boy, won
the contest. When he was brought before the judges, his
unusual self-reliance showed. The judges were impressed,
and after a vote the honor went to the boy who had been
taugrt by his blind-for-a-time mother to do Ihings for him
self. He received $1,500 in money and a two-weeks stay
in New York. ,
Mrs. McCready told me; “If you leave children alone
and let them work out their problems, they can do bet
ter than most people believe. Those are the very qualities
that develop self-confidence in children. ’ And that is the
very thing that our psychologists believed. Self-depen
dence develops self confidence. _
FARM FILLERS
Johnston county farmers in a
local cotton contest are obtaining
higher yield where the rows are
less than 11 1-2 feet in width and
there are several stalks in a hill.
By RUTH CURRENT
N. C. State College
Round pot holders can be cut
by using a saucer for a pattern.
They are especially handy when
corners to drop into the food
i and get sticky.
Dark colored suede accessories
may he cleaned by rubbing them
with an art gum eraser, or with
a rubber sponge, or with n sued*
shoebrush, if it is equipped with
u rubber instead of wire brush.
Uncovered bedsprings should
he inspected occasionally to
make sure that they have no
rough places that will tear sheets
If they have, apply adhesive tape
tu the rough spots.
Visit your school Thursday,
November 11), 11)44.
tVvey her,
gSttO faster
Erratic driving proves so inefficient
^ in Wartime that it’s no longer
favored any of the time.
Deftness in the style in motoring. Tactics like
swooping in and out of line seem wasted, when the
little coupe—from miles behind—presently shows
up anyway in the "thrill-driver’s” mirror.
That’s skill—making a steady good average; not
leaping and bounding to make it up. You’ll show
still greater regard for dutiful mechanism by
having your engine oil-plated—internally sur
faced to resist corrosion by the unavoidable acids
of combustion.
Changing to Conoco Nth motor oil will auto
matically give you an oil-plated engine. Costly
pioneer research created the special Conoco Nfh
ingredient that gives this popular-priced oil its
magnet-like action. And that’s what joins oil
plating to inner engine surfaces, as if to stay.
Acids stay too, these days—infesting every cyl
inder in unreasonable quantities. Former chances
of ousting corrosive acids are decreased these days
by low engine temperatures—longer stretches of
standing cold—mileage limitations of any kind.
But you can keep your engine’s fine inner finish
under cover of protective oil-plating—resisting
corrosion! Just change to Conoco Nth motor oil at
Your Mileage Merchant’s. Continental Oil Co.