THE EAGLE
Published Every Thursday ia the interest of Cherryrllle
ud surrounding Community.
ten for«■ Second Class kail matter August 16th, 1906,
la tha Post Office at Cherryville, N. C., under the Act of
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1945
_ GIVE TO THE UNITED WAR FUND
The United War Drive is now underway; but we are
still far short of our quota. Many people have given gen
erously, while others have given sparingly and still others
none at all.
We must finish the job. Cherryville’s quota of
$5,051.46 is not large when we consider the many organi
zations we are helping through this. In addition to the
USO, which means so much to the many men still in ser
vice, remember there are thousands of people of our al
lied nations that will starve or freeze if they are not fed
and clothed through the United War Fund this winter.
Let’s consider this as well as our own Boys and give
generously. Send in your contribution today.
If you have any hesitancy about giving, ask the men
who have been in service, then remember those who are
still serving. Your contribution may bring comfort and
joy to an American still serving away from home. It may
mean food and clothing for women and children of the
allied nations. Give generously and give NOW.
GOVERNMENT MEDICINE NO ANSWER
The United States had the largest group of thoroughly
trained medical specialists in its entire history at the be
ginning of World War II. In war service their profes
sional compet nee, plus the aid of new drugs and modern
methods, were largely responsible for the fact that 96.1
per cent of the 1,375,000 wounded in the European thea
tre were saved.
The nation wishes its citizens and soldiers to have the
best possible medical service. In connection with doing
this, there are powerful advocates of a compulsory nation
al medical program which would tax wage earners and
employers at high rates for funds to support it, regard
less of wrhether or not they desired state medical service.
Those who regard freedom of opportunity as one of the
precious assets of America today, deny that government
control of medicine is the conclusive answer. Voluntary
health insurance plans to provide prepayment for medical
service, are already underway and are not a drag on the
country’s medical proficiency or brilliant progress and
research.
”By expanding and improving our public health ser
vice, by supporting various group and community systems,
and by encouraging private insurance companies to add
to the usefulness of their services, the country should find
that Federal control of medicine is not necessary to in
sure a healthy nation.” says the Tndex, quarterly publica
tion of the New York Trust Company. “Historically the
experience of foreign countries provides no evidence to
the contrary.”
A POOR SOLUTION
In Paris the lights may soon he dimmel. In the huge
textile mills of Lyons, the spindles are idle. In Belgium
the great steel mills in Liege. Charleroi and La Louviere
are shut, and in many a European village there is ample
food, but no way to get it to the hungry cities, says Time
magazine.
Why is the economy of Western Europe still paralyzed?
It has a coal famine. Like a wagon without a horse, it
lacks the power to start. Until the coal shortage is solv
ed, there is little chance that Europe’s shattered economy
can be rebuilt or that any sizable trade with the United
States can be revived, says Time.
The only remedy that France suggests is to nationalize
its coal mines. It seems to have the idea that state social
ism of industry, such as the Hitler government established,
will in some miraculous manner encourage increased pro
duction, even though it destroys the incentive that flows
from individual opportunity.
According to the latest figures, this fuel year will see
the United States 37 million tons short of its coal needs.
We tried temporary socialization of the coal mines as a
remedy for coal strikes. The result was not surplus coal
but continued shortages.
One gloomy official in the European area, says: “If the
people don’t get coal, you can count on chaos and revolu
tion.” That would mean less coal and more freezing. We
had the modern revolution—strikes—in the United States
mines when our country faced its greatest war danger.
And the result was less coal. It takes more than revolu
tion and government seizure of property to get produc
tion. Until the people l^arn this, they must expect suf
fering.
END OF THE WORLD
Most of our military leaders warn us to prepare against
another war in order to prevent it, but General Jacob De
vers goes further and names the approximate date.
World War No. 3 will come in 1961 or ’62, he thinks
unless'America keeps an army of 4,000,000 men on hand.
The General, who is chief of the Army Ground forces,
is rushing the season a little. Most of the others average
about 25 years before we again start fighting; he cut it
down to 16. What he is really forecasting is the end of
the world.—Charlotte Observer.
'SOT A BEAR BY THE TAIL
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BEHIND THE SCENES -
IN AMERICAMMBjUSMIE^^
NEW YORK, Oct. 22—Junior
and Sis will have a little wider
choice of toys this Christmas, but
the stores will have nothing like
he prewar variety. Last yeai,
most of the toys were made ot
wood, and metal was limited to
x lone nail or two to keep the
parts together. This year, the
metal restrictions have been lift
ed, but manulacturers have not
obtained all they want. As a le
<ult, about eight to ten per cent
if the toys will be all metal.
Manufacturers say thee will be
x few tricycles for tli little tots
and a small number of electric
trains. The train situation is com
plicated by the fact ; lint although
steel is relatively easy to get,
nickle, copper. t ' a and other
metals which go into the con
traction of the b or train mo
dels are still in limited supply.
Prices will vary widely. The old
ine toy maker who were in busi
ness in 11141 and 1942 have to
comply with price ceilings which
curb their output. The new manu
facturers. on the other hand, base
heir prices on current costs and
some of their figures are steeply
tigher. Best advice to parents
who want to buy toys for the
chillren is to buy as early as pos
sible because the better pieces
ire not staying on retail shelves
very long even this far before
Christmas.
RUBBER’S RETURN — Latest
estimates are that some 300,000
tons of Far East natural rubber
—harvested and secreted by the
natives during the war—may be
found ready for early shipment,
rhis is about half a normal pre
war year’s American consump
tion, but means very little so fai
ls resumption of natural rub
ber's use in auto tires is con
cerned, because of the backlogg
id demand for truck and bus tir
;s in which tree rubber is essen
:ial. Meantime, the first postwai
passenger-car tire, made entire
y of synthetic, has made its
iebut, described as “able to out
wear prewar naturals.” John L.
Coliyer, president of B. F. Good
rich which introduced it, em
phasized that this tire’s advent
:ioes not mean that synthetic
rubber, in itself, is now the equal
>r superior of Far East rubber
for use in tires. But he did say
that the technical progress it rep
resents “automatically gives
American synthetic increased sta
ture in the world rubber picture,”
ind added that “any week or any
lay further discoveries may scale
lown further or even eliminate
the quality advantages which nat
ural rubber now has.”
THINGS TO COME—A new
plastic sugical cast for use in
treating broken bones and otnei
injuries, developed by Union Car
bide & Carbon. Its great advan
tage: it can be molded at tem
peratures which are endurable by
the human body .... A synthetic
leather which combines smart
appearance with wear-resisting
toughness. The Army used it for
tank upholstery during the war
... A special identification light
for aerial delivery containers. It
has a three-celled flashlight which |
turns on when a cord attached to
the parachute causes contact • • -i
Xew modeling clay for children
which glows in the dark. It will
be introduced for the Christmas
trade ... A fully automatic mo
tion picture camera to record in
strument changes during ovation
test flights . . . Splatter-proof heat
lamp for bathrooms. It lias a spe
cially-treated glass which resists
temperature shocks of more than
500 degrees differential. It is
said to withstand almost any a
mount of splashing from a show-1
er . . . A half inch ring of clear
plastic with a channel of glowing
radium salt sealed in. to attach
to anything to be found in the
dark, particularly the telephone,
light switches, keyholes.
FISH FINDER — Americas
giant fishing industry has a new
device to help locate fishing
banks, a,nd to make navigation
safer at night or in fog. The de
vice is an electronic “depth re
corder” which bounces a high
frequency signal off the bottom
of the sea to measure the depth
of water, and draws an accurate
and permanent picture of the
ocean floor, according to engi
neers of the Bendix-Marine di
| vision of Bendix Aviation Cor
i poraton who developed the de
' vice. It is expected to prove a
j boon particularly to commercial
I fishing craft since it accurately
locates fishing banks and shows
! the presence of sunken wreckage
which fight ruin fishing nets. This
device is also said to point the
way to the development for the
first time in history of a small,
low-cost depth recorder suitable
for small boats and pleasure craft.
; Since hydrographic charts, giving
i channel depths and the depths ol
coastal waters are available the
use of a depth recorder with these
charts makes possible navigation
of a ship safer and earies in fog
and at night than with a mag
netic compass.
BIHS O’ BUSINESS—Biggest
real estate boom since the 1920s
has hit New York City. Actual
transactions on 22 square mile
Manhattan may total a half bil
I
JUImtk Cmfimy BrmMtlm fc AMmt* Cimkm, CMmm Orlmm*
lion dollars this year . . . Hide
scarcity will continue into next
real. Foreign buyers take large
(uantities of American hides am
L'. S.-British war pooling agree -
ment channels 90 per cent of alt
\rgentine supplies to England . .
lava’s sugar hoard of 1.600,001
:011s may not relieve our shortage.
Some of it is damaged; some is in
listricts where fighting and loot
ng continues . . . Sandwich meat?
nay become scarcer: the govern
ment, leaving the best grades
takes for devastated foreign
countries half the kind that goes
nto sausages, canned meat
spreads and meat loaves . . . Do
nestic air travel space is more
difficult to get than previously
. . War bond redemptions ex
:eeded sales for tlie first time in
September amounting to $486
million against $451 million.
RULANE GAS i
Can Be Used On The
Farm As Well As In
The Towns For ;
Cooking - Refrigeration
Water Heating
Charlotte, N. C. Ph. 3-3447
Soil Conservation
Woodrow W. Carpenter Route
> Bessemer City, located near Pa
,Our Mountain, sowed 15 acres of
ed clover last spring He mocula -
sd five acres and thounght the
est of it would do all right any
way. Where the clover was inocu
late!, it made splendid growth am
where it was not, a stalk appeal ed
here and there, resulting in a poor
stand, in spite of the fact that all
clover received the same fertilizei
treatment and on the same quality
land. Woodrow had this to say:
"That’s one time 50 cents spent
for inoculation would have made
me $200, which I’d have gotten in
seed and hay." Needless to sSy, he
is sold on inoculation- it looks like
it pays.
B. B. Bynum, located near
Alexis, is doing a splendid job j
building terraces with a sinall i
farm tractor. Folks that say it is
impossible to build standard terr
aces with small tractors should
stop by to see some of his work.
N. T. Lynn Route 1 Kings
Mountain located at the foot ot
Crowders Mountain, sowed about
two acres of the poorest land on
his farm in sericea lespedeza two*
years ago. This past summer, he
harvested a good hay crop and
from all indications, will harvest
a good seed crop. He plans to sow
two more acres next spring for
hay and seed. An ideal way to
make poor land pay its way as
well as coni rolling erosion.
Dr. B. C. Taylor, Mount Holly,
recently ordered about 5000 pine
seedlings from the State Nursery,
to plant idle and eroding fields on
his farm, located north of Mount
Holly. He plans to gradually plant
to pine, about20 acres of idle land,
over a period of years. Planting
pine trees is an execellent way to
put land to work as well as to pro
tect it from en-sion.
Terrace lines were staked re
cently by the County terracing
units and by farm tractors on the
following farms: Mrs. J. L. Farris,
Mrs. Lucy Kiser, Earl Clark, A. L.
Jenkins and O. Blackburn, all ot
Route 2. Bessemer City; W. Grady
Friday Route 1 Dallas; L. L. Har
well and Charles Ratchford Route
:{ Gastonia.
Interesting things observed ovei
the County this week: The Rhyne
Dairy using prisoners of war, cut
ting corn to fill the silos; Miles L.
Boyd patching up weak spots in
his terraces, before sowing grain*
Bert Cloninger sowings 20 acres oi
recommended pasture mixture^
after excellent preparation oi
seed bed and applications of lime
and fertilizer; Dane S. Rhyne pre
paring seed bed, applying lime
and fertilizer and completing a
seeding of 15 acres of alfalfa; C»
N. Falls getting a good stand oi
Austrian winter peas; C. R. Gard
ner putting the finishing toucht-S)
to the dam and spillway of a fish
pond before stocking with fish;
Belmont Abbey farm with excel*
lent kudzu pasture.
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