THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1945 A MEMORIAL BUILDING It was announced in the Eagle week before l*st a meeting had been held at the Rhyne Houser Club House by tbe Ameri can Legions, along with the Auxiliary, and representatives from the churches, city and school board, civic clubs and business men, for the purpose of opening a campaign for raising funds for the erection of a building as a Memorial to tbe veterans of World War one and two. The American Legion are merely sponsoring tbe movement with no desire for any credit. This is a praiseworthy move, and should be a community-wide project. A proposed three story Memorial Building for the benefit of the veterans and the youth of the town and community, with an auditorium to seat five hundred people, a mess hall, recreation facilities, with class room and sleeping quarters. As a community project the building could house a public library, youth center, physical education facilities, playground and swimming pool. In selecting the site it would be well to keep in mind Cherryville's need for an airport. With so many of the boys now in the air corps, a landing field will be necessary in the near future. This Memorial building and grounds will need the endorse ment and cooperation of every civic organization, Lions Club, American Legions. Legion Auxiliary, Woman’s Clubs, Merch ants Association. Town Officials, Business Men, Churches, and school officials. A Memorial Hall such as mentioned above would be a building Chrrryville and community would be proud of and one much needed in this fast growing town. YOUTH CENTER Much'is being said right now about a Youth Center for Chevryvifle. The thinking men and women of this toyvn. .-should get their heads together and establish temporary quarters at some suitable location for a Youth Center and try it out. We notice our neighboring towns, Gastonia and Kings Mountain, both have in operation the Youth Center and in talking with some of the officials of the towns they are proving successful. Gastonia has over 600 members and are open each night and on Sunday afternoons from 2 to 5, with an attendance of around 125 each night. Kings Mountain started the Youth Center last week, sponsored by the Junior Woman’* Club, and are opened two nights each week, and on Sunday frpnt 2 to 5. This would give the young folks of our town and commu nity some supervised place to go and spend several hours of recreation, playing ping pong or some other games, or a place to sit down and have a talk, or a sandwich, or anything they would like to do. This need not put a hardship on any one person as it could be arranged for a couple of married people to supervise the center one night and the next night another couple could go. No doubt the supervisors would soon be en joying the recreation as much as the younger folks. Let’s don’t let the other towns take our young folks away from home, give them some place of their own to ga and they will stay in Cherryville and enjoy the evenings much more and at less cost to the parents from all standpoints. FIVE WAR JOBS There are five ways in which citizens in general can help most in the war program right now, according to the office of war information. They are: 1. Don’t burn any unnecessary lights in areas where pow er depends on burning coal. 2. Keep home temperatures at a maximum of 68—if you heat your home with oil or coal. 3. Turn in more kitchen fats. 4. See if you can fill one of the many essential jobs in a shipyard where manpower is needed most. 5. Don’t do any pleasure traveling. Except for the ship yard job, those are all things which are easy for anyone to do. And those who do have training that would be valuable in a shipyard would be foolish not to look into that possibility both from a patriotic and a remunerative standpoint. HOME-FRONT CASUALTIES Two tragic statistical reports were recently released. One told of the deaths by accident in this country during the calen dar year 194b—a total of approximately 94,000. The other gave the total number of deaths by war in all of our armies sinee the beginning of the war—a total of 111,308. Since the armv figure gave the total since the begin ning of the war. it ia safe to aaaufne that 18,000 of those death* were orevinu* to 1044. and that the 1044 total Far death* In war wa* again le*« than the total death* hr ac cident. When we hear bf the terrific battles being waged for the specific purpose of killing, it is hard to imagine that accidents in our own country can cause even a greater loss of life. But statistics have always shown this to be the caae. During the total length of World War I the yearly accidental death figures were slwavs higher than the war deaths. We sincerely hope, when this war is over, that there will never again be such a thing as a war casualty list. But we also hope that the people ip our couotrv will find some way to at least cut down the giant casualty lists of those wounded and killed by accidents at home. We Anxiously Wait for the Fog to Lift Washington, N. C. (NWNS)— Despite opposition by labor un ion leaders, by farm group leaders and by the National Association of Manufacturers, it is expected that a work or fight bill will soon Oe passed by Congress. For to otl set this opposition is the plea ot President Roosevelt for immediate enactment of such legislation al ong with similar urgent messages from General Marshall and Admi ral King. Observers here, who say that public opinion polls indicate public approval of such legislation, point out the uniqueness of a situation in which spokesmen for practical ly all organized groups of citizens are on one side and the people themselves on the other. They point out that the power of lobby ists may be considerably weaken ed in congress if the congressmen find out that their attitudes do not truly reflect the views of those they purport to represent. Although the National Service Act will probably be changed con siderably before it becomes law, it is expected to keep the provision that the government shall be em powered to force all men under age 46 into the armed services or into essential work. No figures seem to be available on just how many men in this age group wouid be affected, but there is no doubi .hat the figure would »e several millions. At present there are ap proximately 4,000,000 men clnssi fied as 4-F and 15,000,000 others in this age group who have been deferred because of dependents, age, or because they are now do ing essential work. Considerable attention has been given to spokesmen for farmers, who say that passage of this legis lation could create alarming man power shortages on farms. But Marvin Jones, head of the Wai* Food Administration, took just the opposite attitude. He said this bill, known as the May-Bailey bill would be of aid to farmers since it would help to stop rural work ers from moving from farms to industrial areas. Mr. Jones said that more than 3,000,000 farm workers had left the farms since the beginning of the war. Mr. Jones said that the new measure would not affect the Ty dings Amendment to the Selective Service Act which defers agricul tural workers if they are engaged in essential farming. Even if the May-Bailey bill it patted, tbit doet not necet tarily mean that all men be tween the aget of 18 and 45, who are now deferred,will be forced into war work. It would timply give the government the right to enliit them for wnr work to the extent that it becomet necettary. When the discussion over a Na tional Service act ends, congress is apt to turn to the complicated Sroblem of postwar employment. ecause the President put such oerats are expected to propose his campaign, the New Deal L-em great emphasis on “jobs, ’ during legislation by which the govern ment would, in some way or other tiy to guarantee jobs to all. How ever, many congressmen feel that such a proposal is impractical and will probably limit their approval to allocation of funds foi public works programs to provide jobs the immediate postwar period, for a large number of men during Slimming up the views ot many \ , Republican congressmen on jol> theory that the government should said: “The attractive and plausible guarantees, Senator Robert Taft said: “The attractive and pfausi ble theory that the government could guarantee a full-time job to every man and woman who wants to work is wholly inconsistent with the very freedom which has produced the machine which pro vides jobs at good wages. Remember that election last No vember? Well the iinal results are now in. They show: Roosevelt 25 602,505 votes and Dewey 22,006, 278 votes. * t ETTERS FROM SOLDIERS Thanks for the package Berlin M. Stroup I certainly did appreciate the box and I want to thank all of you for thinking- of me. F. H. Starnes It’s good to be remembered. Many thanks. Heres hoping with you that lb45 will bring victory for all of us. Bill Boggs Received your package and 1 really appreciate your thoughtful ness and kindness. Claude Martin The Christmas box arrived in good condition. Your kindndess was greatly appreciated. Robert W. Taylor I was overwhelmingly sui^rised and overjoyed with the small package you sent me. It is some thing- like this that keeps the morale sky high. William F. Allen Sure did appreciate the pack age. Wish all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Harrill F. Newton Hello to all and thanks a million for the thought. To all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year Made happy, I pray, by the return of all your loved ones. Tom Metcalf I wish to thank you for all the remembering me at Christmas. Most all of my former employers Roy and Troy. Howard B. Parker I wish to give my thanks for the nice package received from the Tryon Post of the American Legion. Hope to give my services for the sapie in the future. Luck ! to the Post. John Boyles “Cherryville always working to make people happy.” Thanks very “Buck” Fraley Many thanks and hoping to see the lot of you soon. Your package was the most welcomed thing out here. Wishing all a very “Merry Christmas” and “Happy New Year.” William E. It was very kind of the Post to think of me in stich a manner this Cnristmas. Thank you very mucn. 1 hope all my friends in Cherry ville will have a most successful New Year and 1 hope we shall be together next Christmas time. George K. Summer it was nice ox me au.oi itaii x.e giuu co leo.eutoer uie uuj» uui ..ue anu x mu suit ui , tu eciation goes to me xioweli . ...nulactunng Go. and tne Amei can Gegion of Cherryvilie. L. iv. ifeliinger Have received the gift from you. 1 wish to thank all you ana am grate! ul to each of you. so here's wishing each and everyone a happy New Year. Harold Waters Thanks a lot lor your thought fulness at Christmas. VY llliam C. Dellinger Thank you kindly for the pack age. 1 m golfing along tine and have hopes of getting back soon. John L. Stafford I sure did enjoy the Christmas package. And 1 sine was glad to Know* you hadn't forgotten the boys overseas. Nathan I.. Black, Jr. I want to thank you for the package. It was a nice Christina gift. I want to thank you again and again. Merry Cnristmas and a Happy New Year to all of you. Janies YY. YY’ells I’m sending this card back to thank you all for sending the package and I want to thank the man who gave you my address, i appreciate it lots and 1 hope you all had a Merry Christmas. Grier F. Caldwell Thanks a million. It was nice of you to remember us again this year. Hope you had a Merry Christmas and will have a big New Year. Carol Dellinger I sure was glad to get you package. Keep everything going in Cherryville. “Cab'’ McGinnis Thank you very much am. please give my regards and thanks to Harrelson and Company. Raymond S. Beam It is wonderful to know that the people back home are stil thinking about the fellows that far away. I hope every one that ■eceived a package enjoyed hi is much as I enjoyed mine.Thank very much for everything. C. E. Strickland I sure did fb^ t>«v Raymond Jarrell Thanks for the package. it is food to know that the folks back home remember us at Christmas It will make our Christmas Tii ight Howard D. Black Received the package in fair condition and was very happy in doing so. Keep up the good work D. Glenn Stroup I am somewhere in Belgium and getting along fine. But will be glad to get back there. Since I was home last I have visited Lon don, Versailles, Paris and lots of other interesting places. England, France and Belgium are real pret ly countries. Thanks for the pack age. I do appreciate it lots. Best wishes. . Clyde H. Lewis BUY BONDS PUT OFF LIVING TOO LONG The ot.hci night I heard .< speech by W. I). Mitchell, Brooklyn, N. V., that was so good c hut * 1 asked permission to use it. Hen- is is. 1 first met L*o