“SI-HULLABALOO
My LYTLt HULL
Where Are The Keepers!
The echoes of the War to End
Wars were still rumbling in the
last days of the year 1918, when
the Poles and the Ukranians m
itjatetl a new era of warfare
which continued without cessa
tion—in one part of the world
or another—until August 14,
1945. Eighteen wars—large and
small—were fought, culminating
in the most destructive conflict
of all time. Then ensued a short
breathing spell - of universal
peace—one of the few such in
history—quickly followed by th*
LOOK
HOW MANY CALLS
NORTH CAROLINA MADE THIS YEAR
As Telephone Tommy points out, North Carolinians did a
whale of a lot of talking from January through November
of this year. Fact is, more local and long distance calls
were made than in any other similar period in the sntira
history of the telephone in North Carolina.
We wish you could have seen the rush of these calls
through our telephone exchanges. They made the signal
lights dance across our switchboards with such speed and
sparkle as to turn the .ights on Broadway green with envy.
You might have felt that with so many calls being
handled, the telephone folks were making money because
of the war. The best way for Telephone Tommy to prove
the company did not profit bv the war is to tell you this
startling fact. And that is '‘telephone earnings in 1945
will be the lowest in the company’s history, except for
the worst of the depression years”.
This is because our expenses—wages, taxes, cost of
materials, cost of services—increased at a greater rat*
than our revenues.
Telephone people, however, were glad to be busy
handling North Carolina’s calls. They were not concerned
primarily with figures. Instead these 3,712 busy North
Carolinians were uuCaiitJ with service—getting your
calls through and seeing that lines were kept in order.
They knew their job was to serve you well and with a
pleasant "thank you”.
E. H. WASSON, Carolinas Manager.
SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY
INCORPORATED
aurrsnt small military *«n tests-—'
th« type which eventually bring:1
on a general conflagration.
Even before the atomic
bomb made it, appearance
the PEOPLE of this earth
were determined to have an
organization which would
•top the war. They told their
“manager*” to provide one.
They didn’t tell them how to
do it—they (imply told them
to do it. So the manager*
held a lot of meeting* and
made a lot of *peeche* and
organized a lot of organisa
tion*; and now we have two
war* going an—one in China
and one in Java—-while oar
manager** great pence organ
ization function* not.
Now the war in China may
seem very far away, but it if, a
foregone conclusion that the
western powers—including the
United States—will “side” with
the Chinese Nationalists, and Rus
sia—and her satellites—with
the Communists. It doesnf, re
quire a very great knowledge of
h’ntorical precedent, or a very
great streach of the imagination,
to visualize the probable results.
And they won’t be far away!
I^it better that the managers
of the nations of the world should
continue their old game of chess
with cur lifes as pawn* in order
to annex a bit of territory here
and th^re? Or should we the peo
ple of all the nations put our
big foot down and tell them all—
Truman, Stalin. Attlee, DeGaulle
Chiang Kai-shek and all the rest
of Jhem—to stop! thifr warfare
here and kindly move aside and
let better men take their places.
If w don’t—they won’t! And in
some future place of residence we
can thank ourselves alone for our
sudden and painful departure
from this earth.
With Peace Civilian
Can Anticipate New
Canned Foods Soon
Now that the postwar ear
has hecome a reali y with the
downfa1 of Japan, citizens of
Gaston county can look forward
to dramatic development in can
ned foods, many of which were
first packaged for the armed for
ces, according to W. C. Stolk,
vice president of the American
Can Company.
Mr. Stolk said that the ap
proximately 7,090,000 cans of
food opened annually by resi
dents of the county undoubtedly
wiil be largely increased with the
arrival of the new postwar items.
It will be no trick at all, he said
for a housekeeper to put. together
n three or four course meal by
making use of the canner foods
she should shortly find on grocery'
shelves.
Among the new food., he list
ed are such items as canned
hamburgers, canned bacon, sea
food cocktails and salads in cans,
ns well as a long list of meats
new to a can, among them chick
en stew with dumplings, beef
and gravy, pork with apple sauce,
ham with raisin sauce and boned
turkey.
Junior—Mom, would you like to
have a receipt for a new snow
cake?
Mother—Sure Junior.
Junior—Take a pound of snow,
cover with mollasses, place in hot
oven and in ten minutes s-no
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