THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1945
WHAT ABOUT ‘SUPERMEN’S’ CHILDREN ?
Little has been heard from Washington about the al
lied-control schools for re-education of German children.
We wonder if the reason for the apparent disinterest on
the part of the American public in the “mopping up”
phase of the war.
Many citizens, during the early stages of the war.
heatedly discussed the future of the race of “Supermen.”
There were extremists who though the entire race should
be wiped out because of their repeated warring tenden
cies. Others thought a complete paralysis of their indus
try would suffice: still others thought the nation should
be restored.
Today, unfortunately, the question is not given much
thought by the average citizen. The collective eyes of the
United States public have lowered, and are now focused
near-at-hand.
"Europe will always be in a mesh,” is again becoming
a common phrase as Americans settled down to a resump
tion of peace—and peacetime complacency.
A CHANCE TO SAY THANK YOU’
There is no doubt that Sister Kenny, the Australian
backwoods nurse, discovered an effective treatment tor
infantile paralysis. Since she came to this country sever
al years ago to explain her treatment, it has been adopt
ed in hundreds of hospitals. As a result, thousands of
children, who might otherwise have been hopeless crip
ples, are in perfect health today.
Yet, for sonfe reasori, the medical profession of our
country has been decidedly cool to Sister Kenny and has
refused to give her the support she certainly deserves.
Whether this attitude results from professional jealousy,
unwillingness to accept advice from someone outside the
profession, or dissatisfaction with the treatment is hard
to 9ay.
But the fact remains that the doctors have been very
inhospitable to this woman who has saved the lives of so
many of our children.
A WORTHY MEMORIAL
The American Legion proposes, as a memorial to those
Gaston county bovs who lost their lives in the recent
conflict, to establish a 300-bed Gaston Memorial Hospital.
This is a splendidly conceived idea. Such a hospital
desperately needed in Gaston county, will prove a worthy
memorial, expressing for us some part of our enormous
debt of gratitude and appreciation to the young men
whose lives were sacrificed in the struggle.
But not only will it serve to honor the boys who can
never return. It will also be paying in some measure our
debt to the many others who are returning, who are
pouring into this community and resuming their inter
rupted peacetime existence.
While in service these men, and women, too, received
the finest and best medical care that it is possible for any
group to have. Many of them were snatched from the
very jaws of death by the use of modern medical practice
and up-to-the-minute laboratory equipment. They will
be far from content to return to civilian life and find that
hospital accommodations are pathetically inadequate o
eare fpr their own requirements and to safeguard the
health and welfare of their friends and loved ones.
To provide this care should constitute our solemn re
sponsibility, a duty that no man, woman, or child among
us would wish to shirk.
It should be a happy privilege, as well, for us to accom
plish a purpose that will square off a little burden of the
profound debt we owe to them—Gastonia Gazette.
INEXCUSABLE INACCURACY
The latest coal mine strike, after having cost the nation 13,000,
000 tons of desperately needed fuel and after having kep
than 200,000 miner., in idleness for four weeks, was brought to an
end at the wave of one man's hand, Mr. John L. Lewis, President
of the United Mine Workers. This may have been a little surprising
to those who followed press and radio news accounts. Supposedly
reliable news sources released the impression that coal mine super
visors were striking on their own INITIATIVE, to attain union rec
ognition. Yet suddenly the strike ended at the command of the
head of the United Mine Workers and it is revealed that United
Mine Worker union organizer* were the principal fomenters of the
strike in the first place. The supervisors apparently did not strike
eithfer spontaneously or willingly. Also, apparently most of them
doti't even belong to a union.
According to the editor of the Huntington, W. Va., HeralA-Ad
rettiser, a local newspaper with an on-the-soene knowledge of events^
“Sbspervisory mine workers did not go out on strike; they did not
•ltd do not want to become members of Mr. Lewis’ subsidiary union;
they could not conceivably have anything to gain from such an al
liance, but would lose thereby all power to carry out precautonary
regulations and disciplinary measures so urgently required in any
hazardous industry. These supervisors continued to work—to the
limited degree possible under the circumstances—throughout the
itrikes which they were alleged (by Mr. Lewis, the newspapers and
the radioi) to have caused.”
The manner in which the strike ended at the arbitrary command
of one man, substantiates this editor's remarks.
Christmas
Income To Stay High On
Heavy Consumer Demand
By WALTER A. SHEAD
WNU Washington Correspondent.
With total cash receipts from farm marketing and gov
ernment payments topping the 21-bilIion-dollar mark foi
1945, the highest in history, two subjects are occupying
the attention of both governmental and private farm iead
ers.
1, A re-survey of the farm
parity price system to set up a
new base period to replace the
obsolete 1909-1914 period, and:
2. The administration’s post
war program designed to recon
vert agriculture to a permanent
peacetime basis with stress upon
long range stability rather than
immediate advantages.
The bureau of agricultural eco
nomics in setting up its estimates
and predictions for 1940 declar
er that farmers may expect a de
mand for farm pr^-'uc.s to be
maintained at a high level in
1946, but that prices uid income
to farmers may be s newhat low-*
er than the 1945 gh, probably
10 to 15 per cent lower.
Despite this decline in income,
the estimate decla os that the ne.
income to farmer., next year like
ly will still be more than double
the prewar average and higher
than in any year prior to 19414,
including the peak years imme
diately following World War I.
High Demand to Continue
A constant and high demand is
expected to follow because of the
continued high level of civilian
purchasing power; a larger vol
ume of farm products for relief
and export; expansion of the nat
ional income in mid-1946 with in
creasing employment; reduction
in taxes to leave a larger propor
tion of current income at dispos
al of consumers; reduction in cur
rent and accumulated savings to
purchase good, and services; and
larger consumuption due to re
turning soldiers and the removal
of restrictions upon consumption.)
Administration goal, for con
tinued full farm production are
based upon the assumption that
this production capacity of ou*;
farms, now 25 per cent greater
than prewar production, can be
continued for several years, even
with the lessening of warime de
mauds. To do this, however, the
department of agriculture points
out that to maintain or increase
this high level of production, ad
ditional stress must be laid upon
the use of better farm equipment
use of more fertilizer, higher crop
yields and a continued and more
eflieient maintenance of soil con
servation.
The department estimates that,
assuming average crop yields in
19-i'6, the total cash receipts, in
eluding government payments,
may be about 19 billion dollars.
In reaching thi, figure, the de-’i
partment believes the production
expenses will decline in 194(1 wi h
an approximate 10 per cent de
crease in the expense of hireu
labor; charges for maintenance
and depreciation may be higher in
.1946 as farmer, avail themselves
of new equipment to replace out
worn and outmoded machines;
property taxes are not expected
to show much change next year
although income taxes may be
reduced and charges for farm
mortgage interest will remain a
bout static; government payments
totalled 800 million dollars, about
the same as last year.
Parity Fijrht Seen.
The subject or parity prices,
dormant for the moment, will
flare into a red-hot fight within
the next few weeks. Some farm
leaders want to keep mum on the
subject at this time because of
the effect debate on the question
of higher parity prices may have
in the labor situation. For the
parity price law for farmers is,
in effect, the farmers minimum
wage law and compares with la
bor’, minimum wage law upon
which debate is hot at this time.
It is agreed here by all con
cerned that farm cost factors
whch are used to fix the parity
prices of today are 30 year, old
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I and are obsolete insofar as fixing
a price which will stand up with
j today's costs, and that greater
flexibility is needed to fix an hon
est price. Further, there is a
difference between so-called pri
ce-support and income-support,
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LETTERS TO
SANTA CLAUS
Dear Santa,
I am a little girl and go to
North Brook School. Please bring
mtf a statue horse, a tea set and
some fruit and candy.
Sue Pruitt
L/ear Santa,
I am a little boy six years old.
I go to North Brook school.
Please bring me a wagon, a lit
tle toy bird, some fruit, candy
and nuts.
Grady Sanders, Jr.
i/ear Santa,
I go to school at North Brook
No. I. I want you to bring me
a doll and a wagon. Please don’t
forget my color book and my
ment policy of price support will
call for more government subsidy,
while the income-support policy
would allow a freerel1 play of the
law of supply and demand at per
haps lower prices, but with great
er demand.
At any rate, in a recent speech
at Memphis, Secretary Clinton
p. Anderson pointed to the ob
solescence of the present parity
pries bass and indicated that ha
Auvoreu a 1 e-aujusiment. There
is every indication that in con
sidering these re-adjustments, the
costs of farm labor or at least
a part of it wall be included in
the base adopted.
The Pace bill, now before the
housifc included all or 100 per
cent ol' the labor cost in the par
ity price. .Some farm organiza
tions, including the National
Giange, believe this is too dras
tic a step and that it would be
inequitable in many crops. It ap
pears that the administration will
shoot for a flexible formula which
could be adjusted as time or con
ditions determined form crop to
crop to meet the need, of a chang
ing agricultural economy.
it is expected that the debate
on the Pace bill will bring ail
factors into the open and it is
i possible that this bill may pass the
I lower house but the wiseacres de
clare that it will not get by the
senate and that a substitute meas
ure containing the more flexible
features will be brought into the
picture at the proper time.
[box of crayons, and bring all tha
other little children something.
Janie Baxter
Dear Santa,
I am a little girl six years old.
Please bring me a doll bed, and
a doll, some fruit, candy and
nuts.
Janet Harrelson
Dear Santa,
I am a little boy and am in th»
first, grade. Please bring me a
tractor, a wagon, nuts, fruit*
and candy.
Kenneth Carpenter
Lear Santa,
Please bring me a wagon, a
house, some nuts, fruit and can*
dy. Don’t forget my teacher,
Mrs. Black and my mother and
daddy.
Burl Bess Hull
Dear Santa,
I go to North Brook Sehool. I
am in the firet grade. Please
bring me a doll, nuta, candy and
fruits.
Vergie Willis
Dear Santa,
I am a little girl. Please bring
me a doll, a doll bed, some chairs,
a tea set, a watch, a pretty pin.
Don’t forget the other boys and
girls.
Franches Goins
Dear Santa,
Pleaae bring me a doll, a high
chair, some nuts, fruit, and can
dy.
Ruth Gales
Dear Santa,
I am a little boy, I go to North
Brook School. Please bring me
a wagon, some candy, nuts and
fruits. Don't forget my teacher,
Mrs. Black and mother and dad
dy.
Stowe Brown
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