THURSDAY, AUGUST 30, 1945
WORLD TRAVELERS
EVERY mother aiul father in town naturally hopes that their
boy will be one of the lpcky ones who will arive home in
the next few months. We have all breathed a huge sigh of re
lief, khowing that the shooting has stopped, but we will still be
a little uneasy until we see our sons right on the doorstep.
But it teem* to ut that parent* should try to "re
convert” their mental attitude at much at they can
during thii waiting period. If these were normal tim
et, many of your ton* would be longing to travel to
the far corner* of the earth and many of you would
contider it a valuable aid to their education if tuch
travel could be arranged.
Well—now they are having the opportunity to see the
world and to see history in the making, unhindered by gunfire.
They will learn invaluable lessons on how other people live and
they will see the famous cities and sights which many of us
have always longed for the opportunity to see.
FILL ER UP’
'~I IN'T it wonderful? We mean this business of driving' up
i\ to a gasoline station, saying “Fill ’er up, Joe," and in 1
even having to fumble around for a single ration coupon. It’s
almost as if we’d been told, “You don’t need money anymore
. —everything’s free!”
Not quite everything, though. We still have to keep
our ration currency for meat, shoes, sugar and some
other scarce items. But that is all right with every
body, we feel sure. If we got everything back at once
we wouldn't enjoy it as much.
Watching the shortages all gradually fade away will be
a thrilling sport during the next few months. It will make us
really appreciate many of the things we used to take for grant
ed. And let us hope that, even after everything is back to
- normal, we will still hang on to a little feeing of thankfulness
for the countless things which are provided for us.
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SCHOOL VS. JOB
(The Shelby Daily Star)
Shelby city schools open a week from today and between
now and then some teen-agers must make an all-important de
cision if, in fact, they have not already made it. We refer to
the question they face of whether to return to their books or
stick to the tools which war-time opportunity has placed in their
hands.
All the logic, the government, the labor organizations and
common sense seem to be on the side of their going back to
school. With several million veterans returning to their places
in the community, with war contracts cancelled, it would be
foolish to assume that the places in business an industry which
these youngsters' were able to get under war pressure will go
on forever like the brook. Our country owes these young peo
ple, who have ably stepped in the gap while their older brothers
were away in the army or war industries, a debt of gratitude
for the way they rose to the occasion. Now the time seems to
have come to lay down theii tools and pick up their schooling
wherever it was left off. Now is the time to equip themselves
for being even more useful in peace than they were in wartime,
if that is possible. The schools hold the answer and the teen
agers the right to make the decision.
Secretary of Labor Senwellenbach has given impetus to
this decision which the young folks must make by revoking as
of September 4 the wartime order of former Secretary Frances
Perkins which dropped the age limit on government contracts
from 18 to 16 Years. Supplementing this government order,
heads of both of the large labor organizations in the country,
the CIO and the AFL, have cautioned teen-agers not to sacri
fice educational opportunity for the weekly pay envelope.
* We suppose there are very few Shelby young people who
are affected by the Secretary of Labor’s revocation because
there are not so many war contracts handled in this territory.
But there is many a young man and woman of this community,
who on account of the scarcity of help in late months, has work
ed himself into the workaday world and has had the taste of
regular pay. It will require a measure of self control to fore
go the justifiable satisfaction of making one’s own way to take
up disciplined study again. However as he faces this issue, he
will remember that a job, no matter how well paying it is, is
shorter than a life. He will remember that a school bell is
meant to sound for him greater opportunity and wider horizon,
not to count him out.
BUY MORE WAR BONDS AND STAMPS
With a FirmGrip and a Steady Wheel
;pi;A<CE.
Si&nvl
WASHINGTON, D. C. — The
government's pattern for recon
version to peacetime living has
been announced in deta’l—out it
is evident that many shifts in the
blueprints will be necessary as
new problems present themselves.
The aims of the government
program are: to see that every
man has a job (although govern
ment spokesmen admit that this
will be impossible during the rest
of 1945), to keep peacetime pro
duction and peacetime wages at a j
level equal to wartime ami thus!
raise our nations standard ot liv
ing, to get rid oi .une re-1
strictions as rapidly as possible,
and to prevent pine inflation.
„_Jobs i* definitely the biggest
problem. Million* o» ;.ien already
are out of work a* a result of the
cancelation of war contract* and it
it expected that employment
may reach a peak of 8,000,000 by
the end of thi* year. The only
immediate an»wer for the*e unfor
tunate worker* leems to be unem
ployment insurance- although,
through the United States Emp
loyment service, it i» the govern
ment,* hope that they will be.
quickly absorbed into peace time
industry. Special effort* will be
made to find immediate work
for veteran*. But during the per
iod while large industries are shi
fting from wartime to peacetime
manufacturing there will be a
large group of men in the cities
who will be unable to find work.
It is the general oponion here th
at our nation can have a short
period of unemployment without
having a buisness depression—
but if it last long the whole plan
lor prosperity may mow up. in
an effort to be sure that reconv
ersion is brought about in the
quickest possible time, the War
Production board is making mat
erials available to industry imm
ediately and is eliminating all
possible red tape which might
slow up the process.
Inflation— which could wipe
out all of our savings, if it ran
wild— will be controled with an
iron hand. Although rationing
has ended on many items, price
ceilings will be enforced more
actively than ever in an effort to
prevent prices of scarce goods
from soaring. And wage controls
will be kept in force until the
time comes when the supply of
goods is equal to the demand.
The public was pleasantly
surprised when gasoline ra
tioning and canned food ra
tioning were suddenly ended
on the day following the Jap’s
surrender. Most everyone saw
in this action the promise
that the government would
release its controls over our
lives as rapidly as possible.
By the end of 1945, it is hoped,
practically all wartime regu
lations will be eliminated. At
present, however, there are
good reasons why the ration
ing of meat, shoes, butter,
tires and sugar must be con
Informed opinion here expects
that shoe rationing will end within
a few months, cheese and canned
fish rationing may end any dav,
butter rationing should end be
fore 1946, and tire rationing may
end in the fall. Meat and sugar
rationing will probably be the last
to go—sometime in 1946.
Letters to congressmen indi
cate that there is considerable dis
appointment among the people
over the time it will take to re
turn the men in he armed forces
to their homes. But analysis of
the situation here makes it ap
parent that the job will be done as
rapidly as is humanly possible. In
the first place, large armies ot
occupation are vitally necessary
and a large number are needed to
supply those armies. As for those
who are scheduled to be sent home
the problem is largeiy one ot
transportation. If the average
transport carries 1,000 men, it;
would take 6,000 ship loads to
move an army of 6,000,000 men.
HOW TO KILL THE CHURCH?
1. Attend the service only when
it is convenient. The Minister and
Choir will be there anyway.
2. Don’t speak to strangers—
They might come again and de
crease your elbow room.
3. After the service, get out ot
the Church as if the benediction
were a fire alarm, and you were
a fireman on duty.
4. Never compliment anyone
who does well. If you are inclin
ed to flavor your speech, use cay
enne and vinegar.
6. Grumble, growl, knock ana
complain, about everything in the
Church.
This shows your interest and in
telligence.
6. Let the other fellow pay the
expenses. Salvation is free and
the Lord will provide tor you any
way.
A united effort along these lin
es will bury the Church finally and
completely, too deep for resurrec
tion. (Epiphany Herald).
SOIL
CONSERVATION
R. R. Watterson, located near
Bessemer City, recently purchased
a carload of limestone and is
spreading it at the rate of two
tons per acre over twenty-six ac
res of pasture land. Mr. Watter
son is preparing sixteen acres to
lie sown m a winter pasture mix
ture of 10 pounds crimson clover,
20 pounds ryegrass and two bush
els barley and one bushel oats per
acre. Mr. Watterson believes in
having as near all year around
grazing as possible and says “its
cheaper and less expensive to let
my cattle harvest their own
feed, and they do better". He also
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Joseph’s Place in God’s Plan.
Lesson for September 2:Gene»ia
39:20-23; 41:14-16, 41-43.
Memory Selection: 1 Corinth
ians 3:9.
One of the most remarkable
men of history, Joseph sold into j
slavery by his brothers, falsely
accused and cast into prison, sum
moned to interpret the dream of
Pharaoh, was made the eond,
ruler in the kingdom \nd charged
with hoarding surplus grain dur
ing the seven years of plenty.
That he was a man of great
ability, even of genius, a good
u mtnistrator, wise to plan ana
quick and determined to carry out
bis plan does not alter the tact
that God used him in a wondrous
v. ay to care for His chosen peo
ple and provide for them during
lour centuries.
For Joseph, having exchanged
the chain of a slave for a chain of
gold about his neck as the emblem
of authority of prime minister of
Egypt, and a dungeon for a palace,
came into place and opportunity
to preserve his people, as we read
in the amazing record which foll
ows that of Joseph’s elevation to
power.
Joseph was one spoiled and con
ceited child that made good—he
succeeded in spite of childhood
vanity. Let young people beware
of the youthful Joseph. Rather let
them think of his standing the
test in the day of adversity be
cause of his sturdy character and
unfailaing faith. Joseph is a whole
some example in the strength ol
his character, rather than in his
great success. Few can by gen.
ius or God’s favor attain unto
great place. But everyone can imi
tate Joseph’s unswerving loyalty
to the best he knows, and serve
God in his own place.
lilans to improve the permanent
pastures by applying lime, phos
phate and manure and adding ad
ditional grass seeds for maximum
grazing.
George Poston, on his farm lo
cated near Lowell, is preparing
land to sow approximately ten ac
res in a mixture for winter graz
ing to reduce his feeding costs. He
is sowing a mixture of crimson
clover, ryegrass, wheat, oats and
FOR SALE
Approximately 15 Acres of LAND on
right side of Highway 274 near the Iron
: # -
Bridge, known as the London property.
BIDS WILL BE OPEN UNTIL WED
NESDAY; SEPT. 5, 1945
J. WORTH SELERS
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FROM POLITICS TO BUSINESS
lERE’S a woman who gave war jobs to other woman in
I ,v oh|1 is Miss Vivien Kellems, Westport,
Conn ""doV"' 'remember when Clare Boothe Luce ran
Conn, uo y a„ainst her. Clare won and
VMvieii*wa^defeated,"but that’s water under the bridge.
Vivien Kellems. 16 years ago. started a manufacturing
company lof her own. And that s quite a choie. She n a -
ufactured a cable-grip and the idea came from a child
hood toy. You’ve seen that contraption ot woven straw
called a “finder-trap.” l»»u stick your tingei into it and
try to pull your finger out. The harder you pull, the more
firmly the thing has you snagged.
She started manufacturing these tor pulling cables un
derground She got along quite well. too. These cable-grips
sold from 20 cents to #500 each. They'd hold anything
from a pencil to a heavy navy shell.
She got an order from the Signal corps to make
these so-called grips; the order was so big—
2,800 a week—that her factory couldn’t take
care of it. Then, in the twinkling of a flashlight
the order was doubled.
So she hit on the idea of letting the women in her sec
tion do the work at home. She trained two or three house
wives to see it they could do the job. and lo.- thej coutd.
Her own particular work could be done in the sitting room
of the home instead of in a factory. And it could be done
as the mother sat minding Junior. •
She has handed out jobs to 100 women in her neighbor
hood who were able to earn about #0 cents an hour doing
the work: and, they did it at home, too, Eleven ot the
most expert workers were aide to make $45 a week. Sixty
of her workers had been able to make $15 a week.
She has had such a success using women in their home
that I hope other employers over the country will take up
the idea and apply it in their own fields of manufacturing.
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HAS BEEN A WAR JOB .., *
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^.TOD has crowned our arms with victory and a
stirring chapter in the history of our country comes
to a close—a chapter in which at all times you have
met war’s all-out demands for telephone service with
speed and skill and devotion. V
“The determined manner in which telephone
folks accepted and discharged their high responsi. i
bility—the, 3,705 who served as members of the Jf
armed forces and those of you who stayed at your
post—deserves the highest praise. You did your job £
well and you made ether important contributions
through your splendid recorj of War Bond purchases, *
your blood donations and other essential homefront
activities. With an over'-helming sense of pride in
the sort of folks you are 1 say, my sincere thanks to
you all.
“With thankfulness In our hearts in the triumph
of our Nation and its Allies, look forward to the
return of the men and women who left us to enter
the Armed Forces. We shall bear forever in our
hearts the memory of those who made the Supreme'
Sacrifice.”
PRESIDENT
A publle •tiltmittl •( ippreclaiUa
made by Hal S. Damai to the more
36,000 Southern Bell employeee.
Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company
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