THE EAGLE
Published Knry Thursday is the interest of Ctaernrrllle
and surrounding Community.
Entered mm Second Clase Mail matter Auwit 16th. 1906.
Ii the Post Office at Cherryville, N. C., under the Act of
Congress March 8rd, 1879.
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MRS. CREOLA HOUSER
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THURSDAY, AUGUST 9, 1945
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SUGAR SUBSTITUTES
Alter reading Zb tips on how to get along without sugar,
we experienced a terrific ache in the sweet tooth.
The very subject matter started us dreaming about delici
ous things to eat. As we pictured a thick, heavily frosted choc
olate case, we read about a sugarless cornstarch pudding.
In was our mteniion to write an editorial passing on to
our readers a lew oi the best-sounding suggestions for making
a pound of sugar do double duty, but we came to the conclusion
tliat the only honest answer is to pull out your sweet tooth and
store it away until the shortage is over.
We can all get along with less sugar all right. But we think
in general it nngnt be easier to just grin and bear it than to ex
periment with the concoctions which are going to be dreamed
up as “happy substitutes.”
PRESIDENTIAL LINE-UP
President Truman’s request for a change in the line of as
cendancy to the Presidency is one which will be wid-.iy ucbated
before any action is taken.
The President's argument is that men elected by the peo
ple rather than those appointed by him, should succeed to the
Presidency in case of his death. He has suggested that the first
in line be the speaker of the house, and the seconu, the presi
dent of the senate.
But although these two men are elected by some of the
people^—the people of their district or state—on many occasions
they might not be considered at all satisfactory to the people
as a whole.
If a change is to be made, it seems to us that we should
get a man who met with gieater public favor if the house waa
given authority to elect a new President from its own group.
In that event the local repiesentative of aach of us would have
a vote and would each vote for a man who he thought would
have the approval of his constituents.
FARMER ORGANIZATION ESSENTIAL
It was never the original purpose of a true cooperative in
this country to operate business and escape taxation. There is
a marked ditierence between nun-protit marketing cooperatives
which seek to give farmers service through an organization to
handle their many problems, and a purely commercial selling
cooperative which seeks to cut prices for the benefit of a special
group of customers. Farmers are faced with as many problems
ot buying and processing and selling as the big corporations.
Only by joining togethei in marketing cooperatives can they
provide themselves with facilities needed for efficient operation.
Only through organization can they meet other organized
groups on an equal basis. Only by working together can far
mers carry on research and develop new ideas that will benefit
all the people—the consumers of food as well as producers. It
does not require special tax subsidies or tax exemptions for
farmers to cooperate in this manner to stabilize their position
and secure fair prices.
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LIKE THE MOUSE AND THE LION
We have neard so much about rationing, price control,
ceilings, reconversion and postwar planning, that we are alt
pretty much confused. But c»e fact is standing out more clear
ly every day: The retailer, who from the beginning of the war
has been treated largely as non-essential, is now recognized as
the connecting link between the buyer and the producer, upon
which the success of any reconversion plan rests. Stripped of
manpower, stripped of many essential commodities and food
products, the retailer has in some way managed to keep articles
on his shelves that enabled consumers to supply their needs.
The keen competition between chain stores and indepen
dents, and between chain stores themselves, is a governor that
controls attempts by price gougers to cash in on scarcities. The
independent and the chain store have a common interest in see
ing that goods flow to the consumer in the greatest quantity,
at the lowest cost, because they both depend on volume for
their existence.' It is therefore highly essential that in postwar
planning, which involves employment and production, the re
tailer’s position be given gi eater consideration than ever be->
fore. Any artificial hampering of his operations retards the flow
of manufactured goods, agricultural products and employment.
It is time that both national and state legislative bodies recog
nised the fact that production and retailing are like the fable
of the mouse and the lion.
BUY MORE WAR BONDS AND STAMPS
BEHrND THE SCENES
^ I* AMERICAN BUSMEN
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NEW YORY, Aug. Out of
the requirements of war has been
developed an old and familiar li
ber with new and unusual proper
ties. The fiber is cotton and the
new qualities which will amaze
housewives, create new markets;
and contribute to the stability
of the cotton industry in general
have been added by chemists.
Cotton today is treated with a
chemical compound so that it can
be ciumpled in the hand and still
retain a freshly laundered rook.
Hut that is oniy one fro itmenf;
with others civ. mists can mare
cotton fpeprooi, g'v‘‘ n ;l linen,
a silk oi' a glazed fini b; make it
water repellent or high1}' ab'-orb
bcnt; make it germ d odor re
sistant; prevent staining aa I tnd
dew: theat it so that sii’cr which
is wrapped in it w II not tarn is r.
Perhaps the fireproofing treat
ment is the first to be applied to a
well known American institution.
Ringling Brothers and Barnum &
Bailey Circus has applied it to its
tent canvas, wood stages, plat
forms and bleacher seats. The
wood sections were treated by
American Lumber and Treating
Company of Chicago through a
pressure impregnation with a
chemical known as Minalith fire
retardant. The 75,000 square
yards of canvas were treated by
William E. Hooper & Sons of
Baltimore.
NEW AUTO TEAM,— Biggest
news in the news creating auto
mobile industry is the newly for
med Kaiser-Frazer Corporation
which plans two post-war auto
mobiles, a low-priced “Kaiser” to
be built on the Pacific coast and
a medium-priced “Frazer” to be
built by Graham-Paigie Motors
corporation and a long time au
tomobile executive, and Henry J.
Kaiser, who performed produc
tion miracles in shipbuilding dur
ing the war years. Both are small
town boys, Frazer from outside
Nashville, Tenn, and Kaiser from
Canojaharie, N. Y. Frazer was
formerly a vice-president of the
Chrysler corporation, later presi
dent of Willys-Overland, now top
Graham-Paige executive. Kaiser
who helped build the boulder dam
heads a number of corporations
and his contribution to mass pro
duction int he shipping industry
has become well known in every
section of the country.
THINlio TO COME— Styrene
promises a postwar chemical rev
olution. Chemists say the spicy
smelling liquid made from ethy
lene gas and of benzene wilt be
turned to plastics, water-emulsion
paints, tacjqi%'rs, coatings for
waterproof containers; chunks of
foam for insulation and scores of
other uses A new steam boiler
a third as large as conventional
type, will produce as much or
more steam pressure per square
inch A newly developed onion
powder is said to be tear-proof
A new processing and sterilizing
method to keep processed cream
fresh and tasty for h year at or
dinary room temperature Pyre
thrum, daisy-like plant, as a
source of insecticide 60 times
more powerful than the well-her
alded DDT Small gauges made
ofsynthetic sapphire to last 300
times as long as steel gauges, to
cost only four to six times as
much as steel or tungsten carbide
counterparts.
STRAIT AND NARROW—Once
again American industrial ingenu
ity has solved the unsolvable, and
because of it Pacific island hopp
ing has become a little less haz
ardous. The problem developed in
Africa when tank treads became I
clogged with the metal-destroying
sand as the Allic chased Rommel s
forces across the continent. I hose
tanks had to be tediously cleaned
every six or eight days, and the
Saharah is still dotted with is still
(lotted with skeleton remains ol
tanks which did not survive. To
day, American tanks can take it
indefinitely, according to Brown
Instrument Company of Philadel
phia whose electronic and other in
dustrial instruments helped pro
duce and perfect a new tana
tread steel, almost as hard as a
diamond. The new metal is impel*
vious to the devastating effect o.
grinding sand, and clogging i*
eliminated by speedy lubricant
baths.
BITS O’ BUSINESS—Eastern
farmers see fewer chickens ant.
eggs next year despite Bureau oj
Agricultural Economics forecast
of no change in the hen and put
let population. They say tie:;'
year’s chickens and eggs will bo.
cut bu purchase of entire flock,
for this year’s black market
Washington expects all commod;
ty programs to go under one big
agency, probably called Commodi
ty Administration 'Farm imple
ment makers aim for a complete
ly mechanized outfit for $l,00t».
also talk of farm machinery fo
.$4,000 Material scarcity stii.
keeps furnithre makers from
making a dent in unfilled orders
Unemployment and manpowi i
shortages may exist simultaneous
ly by the middle of next, year as
.reconversion gets underway
California’s prospective home
builders find priorities easire to
get than materials Radio manu
facturers hopes for early radio
production were heightened by a
WPB letter asking them to file for
permission to make radio sets on
"spot authorization.” which means
that when manpower and materi
als are available. They now see
production before fall rather than
by October.
Soil Conservation
Andy Robinson, Route 3 flas
tonia, located in the Robinson
School Community, followed the
recommendation of disking about
3 .acres of kudzu this ppast spring
which, after 5 years planting, was
making little progress and scarce
ly covering the ground, due to
heavy competition of weeds and
hroomstraw. After this heavy
disking the kudzu made more
growth than the other years put
together and has covered the
ground this season. He plans to
use this crop for hay. *
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LAXATIVE?
Black-Draught !•
1- Usually prompt
2- Uaually thorough
3- Always economical
doses
only
N. Falls, Route 1 Gastonia,
located in the (’hapel Grove com
munity, is tlurning under a green
crop of lespedeza on 5 acres, in
preparation for the seeding o'" al
falfa this fall. He put 2 tons ot
lime per acre on the land and he
plans to keep disking the field to
prepare a perfect seed Vied before
sowing around September loth.
Mr. Falls is following the recom
mendation for seeding alfalfa as
a result of soil samples taken and
analyzed, of 2 tons of lime, lit',
pounds of borax and 8(10 pounds
of 2-12-12 fertiliser and 30 lbs.’
of alfalfa seed per acre.
F. T. “Dink" Dellinger, Route
1 Cherryville, located in the Ml.
/don Church community, invited
the farmers in his neighborhood
to attend a soil conservation meei
in;- at his home last Thuisdaj
n; ,'it. July 26. In spite of the
’• nv night, his neighbors turnc
in the interest of conserva
i '..mures and increasing the fer
tility and productivity of the land
op their farms. A series of slides
..ire shown by representatives
of the Soil Conservation Service,
on terrace construction, crop ro
tation, strip cropping, pasture im
provement, perennial hay crops
and woodland improvement prac
tices. “Dink" is setting a fine ex
ample of conservation farming
with resulting increased crop
MAKING EMPLOYEES IMPORTANT
The subject o1 this story is president of it wine and
spirits shop in the dpwiitovn section of New York Gity,
where price cutting: was rampant.
Seven years ago tie found he had so much competi
tion that he was about to be pushed into the East river.
He tried to think of some way to beat this competition,
but a lot of brains was thinking on the other side.Thinking
how they could keep money out of his cash drawer.
Hi' decided hh Would cut the price ol liquor still more.
Then the idea came to him that maybe a good place to go
to work was in his own organization, instead of trying
further price cutting.
He decided to show more appreciation for his staff,
md to let each one feel important, lie started in with his
cashier, as an experiment: She had worked for him for
years', but he'd hardly ever complimented her on her work
He complimented her for her patience and began
calling her his head cash icy. He had only one cashier, so
naturally shi was the head < ashier. But she liked this lit
tle attention. When pontile came into his office he intro
duced her and called her his head cashier. She liked it and
busload of 'icing colorless anti inconspicuous, when visitors
were about, she talked to them, full of pride in her work.
He had only one salesman, but instead of referring
o him over the telephant and in Iris presence, when oth
er w ere i; . e. as im relv a salesman, he referred to him
.ealed to his sense of importance.
He had only one sh. >ping clerk. Instead of referring
to him as tin shipping ciei he began calling him "our
iiat.ic manager." The young man liked it.
Immediately Hie mm ale of the organization went up.
Tile staff came earlier and worked with a better will,
simple as were the tilings Air. Be Petri had done.
Ninety per cent of the retail liquor stores in New
York do less than $."0,000 business a year. By increasing
his office morale. Air. l.e Petri has raised his sales volume
to nearly >'.‘>00,000 a year.
u char
sales." The man liked it. It ap
yields by the fact that be has alt
the above conservation practices
and measures already in etf'ect on
what, actually can be done on the
his farm, for his neighbors to see
land. “ 1 >ijik” is really practicin';'
what he preaches and dome a fine
job in his community.
Terrace lines were staked rec
ently to be built by the county
terracing: units and by farm true
j tors, on the following; farms:
| hu-kson White and Hoy G. Beam,.
I RFD Cherryville; Mrs. R. C, Me
1 can. .J. A. Cohb, Charles K. Bry
ant, Plantation Pipe Line Compa
ny. E. S. Fletcher and Isaac
Watts, all RFD Gastonia; A. I
!N’exvtui, Route 1 Dallas.
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