a THE EAGLE Published Every Thursday in the interest of OherryviUe and surrounding Community. Entered as Second Class Mail matter August 16th, 1906, in the Post Office at Chtrryville, N. C., under the Act of Congress March 3rd, 1879. T5Sd K. HOUSER —-Editor and Publisher MRS. CREOLA HOUSER (Local and Society Editor) Telephones Office, 2101 — Resilence, 2501 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Payable in Advance ••e year- $1.50 Six mouths _ .85 Pour months_ .80 Three months _ .50 ttefteeet AdvertWIes ■•proiontoinr* American Press Association New York • Chicago • Detroit • Philadelohie 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. 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. 0 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.