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Published Every Wednesday in the interest of Cherryville and surrounding community. ___ Entered as Second Class Mail matter August 10th, 1906, in the Post Office at Cherryville, N. C» under the Act of Congress, March 3rd, 1879. FRED K. HOUSER Editor and Publisher MRS. CREOLA HOUSER—Advertising Director—..MRS. CAR YE BROWNE—Job Printing TELEPHONES: Office, 6732 — Residence. 6866 _118 WEST MAIN STREET_CHERRYVILLE, N. C._ SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year . $2.50 Four Months . Six Months.. 1.25 Three Months .. $1.00 .76 NATIONAL advertising representative American Press Association NEW YORK. CHICAGO. DETRClT, PHILADELPHIA WEDNESDA^/MARCH 2, 1955 NATIONS ARE PERSONS Second in a »erie» of guest editorial* present od by the Rotary Club of CherryTille In commemo ration of tho Golden AnniTersery of Rotary. 2 MBwfa, 1955. Suppose every wage earner m Gherryville gat a notice today that he or she , was going to receive a bonus of one month’s pay | this year. Imagine the celebration! Yet, the idea j is not so fantastic; for that is roughly the amount J taken from everyone’s income to finance the pre paration for -international conflict. That is one way of measuring our stake in the Advancement of international understanding. But there are even more striking measure ments. If so much of our life s effort goes in tribute to the present lack of international under standing, much more is involved in the threat of a complete breakdown. Atomic warfare, at super sonic speedb, threatens our very lives and all we hold dear, Those who survived would exist in a world incredibly impoverished and disorganized. On the other hand, what great stores of energy woud be released for the improvement and enjoy ment of life if this doom that hangs over civiliza tion were lifted. These considerations should impress anyone with his o-r her personal stake in the advancement of international understanding. But what can he or she do about it? To most of us the relations between nations lie far beyond our reach and control. The daily Aood of news and interpretation about internation al affairs swirls over us, leaving us angry, fearful, suspicious and frutrated. As individuals, we can- 1 not cope with nations. Indeed, we can hardly con ceive of them save as ridiculous composites of stereotyped traits whose effect is to emphasize differences and the impossibility of understanding. The attempt to think of other countries merely as “nations” is a training in illusion and distrust, j Is there an alternative way of thinking about : them? We magnt Began oy looking ior Lne umigs nations have in common, instead of for the dif ferences between them. The first thing—most oibvious, yet so often obscured—is the fact that nations are people*, made up of human beings like ourselves in their basic needs and purposes. A mother's love—a father’s hope and pride—are very much alike in every nation. And no less universal among all nations is the people's stake in tne pre vention of war. Thinking of nations as people suggests the possibility of understanding. Where so much of interest is common to the peoples of alt nations, surely the solutions of their problems can :>e achieved harmoniously. Vet. though much time and study be devoted to informing ourselves about other nations as people, the opportunity far acta... contribution to international audemar.di-ig - *:... not apparent. Better informed, w. may a. inclined to anger, fear and suspicion. But r active, personal influence or relation's between fa tions. we are stiii frustrated, Apparently, a further step in'.- at t'r.l.iking Beyond the far d a tiuns as assefftblie bring the p. ob.cms down to ilia:, age a persons can get to That nations : Rotary to its obj understanding, goc the local eltiib me: fessions find in pel tion to service, sc countries personal which agreement and achieved. There is. a saving era in Rotary." Nor nations of the world if e pi f liifereni er.ee each other. ace. l ist as m trades and pr< ince :]ie inspira aniong Rotarians of different sugge ays that •'there aiv no foreign need there be among the international uiiderstanu.ac is encouraged and nations are persons. that. TRACTORS FOR TURKEY Late in .January, an operator pushed the start- I er button on a farm tractor in a factory in | Ankara, Turkey, and the machine rolled off the j assembly line. What makes this newsworthy is that the trac tor in question was the first to be produced in that I country. The factory making i: was established by an American farm equipment manufacturer.’ in partnership with Turkish banks, private mves- i tors, and Turkish government agencies. Prior to this time, all modern farm equipment used in the | country was imported. About 1,000 tractors wiil j be made the first year, and schedules call for in- ! creases up to 5,000 annually, along with many ! other implements. This is a real step forward for Turkey. It i gives the nation a new manufacturing industry— j and, incidentally, all the workmen are to be Turks. I And it gives her a domestic source of something I that is 100 per cent essential if any country is to properly feed its people and conserve its irreplace able land resources—modern farm equipment, of the kind our Ameriwn companies produce in We have come to. take mechanized farming for granted. In that we are fortunate indeed. Recent news stories have toid of Soviet Russia’s food problem. She simply can’t produce enough to keep her population going save on a subsistence basis, and apparently the spectre of famine is always present. One reason is her lack of suffici ent tractors and other farm machinery. A steadily declining number of people has produced a steadily increasing supply of food and fiber for this country. The machine has helped make that possible. ’IMtinneapolis-Moiine Co. STILL A LIFELINE In Shi? atomic age, our national defense is based, in large part, on the concept of massive retaliation. The fear of that retaliation, it is hoped, will deter potential war-makers. And, if a major war domes, massive retaliation with all the resources at our command will be employed to bring about victory. This, unfotur.ateiy, has ltd many people to believe that all, or practically ail, we need for security is a big supply of nuclear weapons and sufficient ieng-rar.ge aircraft to carry them to their targets. But ho responsible military man shares that belie:. Major General John M. Franklin, president of the United States Lines Company, who was Assist ant Chief of Transportation during World War II. recently wrote: "The H-bomb, the A-bomb, guided missiles, atomic canr.no. jet. power and a host of other implements of war that nave become reality, have led a good portion of public opinion to be lieve that ur dependence upon the ‘staple com modities’ of warfare, such as transportation, has Cold facts are that im super-highways. airport been reduced. ,Tne hard, proved railroad facilities, and airnlane develonment, are all needed tioal security. ‘‘Ocean. ;r: vital as Co mm r.t ar.d and more modern ships in the interests of na ,n becomes increasingly .sure or. the free world ,;r treatiest with freedom the ‘defense perimeter edged to counteract ag productiQ'n ■ etween the e. Nothing ALL THE DIFFERENCE • -'mini" Tiny -restrict s s • i ve under, i • ' r .■ • vv.-it - i >;n 1 gu>■. A.- every i r. • know-. .. :Vv front a service station.. Ir. term? »•: | •till* required for .’.s to earn '-he money u> i ■ ay na< econie steadily cheaper. In 11 — • > . it tot . i .inmates working time to -my a {rat- j ton; in 10:f"> took mm.utes, ami now it takes ! only In in:mates., Vuese figures include gasoline j taxes', watch up' mutt.- than 230 per cent since lu23, ...d jvtr which..the industry eats no control. FinaMyi today's gasoline is a: least f>0 per cent | : etter in quality than tne 1025 product — which means that two. traitor.* do the work three, used to do. The history of free indutrial' competition :n America ...story of more products, better products and lower-priced products in terms of the laibor needed t-- buy them. GRASS ROOTS OPINION RTD HOOK. X. y„ ADVERTISER: "A Rhine be-k woman has been arre-'ed on a charge of re fusing: to yield a telephone party .me in a tire emergence ... It :> gOud ’<> know that there is a iaw protecting the status of the telephone as an e: ire rtre n c y weapon." PINE BLUFF, ARK.. COMMERCIAL: "It is a spiritually broadening and soul-strengthening habit to go occasionally to the church of another faith than youi's. Were this practiced more wide ly a greater .understanding of our fellow men would -e engendered." INTERNATIONAL FALLS, MINN., DAILY JOURNAL: “Vhe pay yoiir-qwn-way spirit which dominates a sizeable portion of our agricultural population "’.is dramatically demonstrated . . . ■ when Minnesota’s dairy farmers repaid an 18-year old debt of $20,000 to the state treasury .... thereby demonstrating a respect for public funds that is all too rare ir our times.” THAT'S R inn GOLDEN TIMe'^^ TOPBOV* HK WAS THE MOST WWEfFU. MONARCH OS HWTCKV. ROMAN EMPCT0* VrTSLLIUE M flftBiC, KiKP THE CH*F PRIEST OF SAUL {WHO DETERMINED THE BESAI* MN* AND ENO OP THE SE ASCNS) TO EVTBK> THE SPRING OS THE YEAR DV OHfg MINi/TSf im irmjt stunt cost vmu.»us a qwbtwb of a hujon follabs' FINE TIME fWlN* WTMOUTWMN a pcctoh mm gnricTVf m nai-uvOumoNMev eonon/ BEHIND THE SCENES IN AMERICAN BUSINESS —BY RENOLDS KNIGHT— I New York. Fab, 2S—Analysts of the steel industry here have begun to breathe easier about last-half of 1955 deman,1. They are hpoefu! for reasons which reach far beyond Wall Street or Detroit and Pittsburgh into the concerns of business large and small everywhere. First—As of now, large ware houses who stock steed in forms other than the Sheet and strip type used by the auto makers are -rating out of the market. Even though their inventories are low, they don't want to have to bid against, the auto makers; but when the auto nee<ls begins to taper off these outlets will be ordering steel to replenish their inventories. Second — Farm machinery or ders are holding up well. The ma chinery makers say figures show ing farm income declining are de ceptive to a certain extent, in that although total income is decreas ing it is shared by a farm popula tion that is falling faster. This means bigger farms, requiring and able to buy more machines. Third — Although railroad equipment buying is still low, car loadings and earnings figures are beginning to make better 'compari sons with a year ago. ami rail roads are back in the market. Fourth—No matter what be comes of President Eisenhower’s prog-rams for schools and high ways. thousands of local programs have reached the contracting stage. That means steel when building opens up in earnest, around May. Put together, these projects also mean a host of local jobs. ROLLING ’EM UP—Ever give a thought to the collapsible metal tubes which are so much a part of your life? Chances are you haven't. These unique metal containers have been around so long-—more than a hundred years—that they have become taker,-for-granted items. Into them go dozens of things: dentrifices, medicines and phar maceuticals. household and indus trial products such as adhesives, grease* and wood pastes, eosmet vs. shaving creams and even foods. In 1054 nearly a billion—959. 902.704. to be exact — of these light weigh, sanitary, nonrefillable roll-up containers were turned our, a figure just slightly under the 1953 peak, he first such tube was patented in 1S41 by an Amer ican. John Hand, for paints and other fluids. Molded of lead, it is General Mark Clark, national chairman of the 1955 Heart Fund, on a recent visit to Fayetteville, helps till a plastic heart held • y seven-year-old .Ian Hick*, as Colonel J. J. Hockstim, Cumberland Count Heart chairman, look.- on, Jan's grandmother is one of 10 million heart sufferers in the nation. Gen. Clark Receives Heart Fund Report General Mark ('lark, president i f The Citadel, Charleston, S. < and nat.onal chairman of the lira’, Fund, on a recent visit to Fort Bragg. received a re port on the progress of tin Heart Fund in >:jU front William W. Wood, executive director of the North Carolina Heart A.-soei Wood told General Ciark that a i ridinrinary check of receipts in the Heart Sunday collection in It; conimuriitios on February 20, together with additional rontribu tio’n.s received through the mails, shows that the statewide cam paign has already passed the $100,000 mark. General Clark emphasized in an interview that 75 percent of ail funds collected in North Carolina will remain in the state to sup port the Heart Association’s pto- | .. .. if research. lay ami pro* fc>. enia: education, and commun ity servi-.u. Of the 25 percent which is sent to the American ;1 Association, General Clark ired. half is pledged to re -t,..th; a,vi a iafffe proportion of N< ti: i at' a's imyment is re .i :hi- .• ate in the form >•< ca:i h irrafits and fellow ships. "Vo expand our v.ial research at'. vit:es in the interests of the 1 u,lino,him* American.- who now nav - 'iin1,!■ sort of heart or blood i -*■•! disease, and in the interests i f the millions who may contract -( diseases in future years," in-1.c.-al i 'ark concluded. "we me to exceed hy far the #11, :o,ip5 contributed nationally to the Heart Fund in 1 ;i54. 1 should hike to make a special request that all North Carolinians who were not contacted personally on Heart, Sunday, send their contri butions to their local committees or to “Heart,” care of their local post offices.” now in the Smithsonian Institute ir. Washington. The company which was the first to use Rand's tubes is still in business and using, them for the very purpose for \vhich|| they were first designed. I1 THINGS TO COME—Now the retail store owner can have do-it yourself reflecting signs. A kit contains sheeting and alphabets of letters to be traced and cut out ... A duplicating stamp for making tags and labels produces 100 l-x-3-inch imprints from each | master copy ... A three-wheeled plastic automobile, shown at the Auto Sports show here last week, costs $1,000 and runs 41.5 miles on a gallon of gasoline . . . Pre fabricated fireplaces can row be purchased for $350 apiece, if one I would improve your home. PATIENCE REWIARDED — How many weeks or months of planning lie 'behind the introduc tion of a new product on the American merchandising scene? Much depends on the item itself, of course, but the U. S. is cur rently watching the debut of a product that has been “in the works’’ for over 10 years! Some years ago Schenley decid ed that its Canadian whisky, a favorite in such selective foreign markets as Paris, Tokyo, Rome and Nassau, dhould he made avail able in this country. To accomplish this a three-point1 expansion program was under taken: first, the purchase of one, of Canada’s finest distilleries (in Valleyfield, Quebec); second, the investment of more than $12,000, 000 to make this distillery the most modem and one of the, largest in the Dominion; third, the establishment there of the same network of controls which safeguards the quality of all of1 the company’s U. S. brands. In December of 1954 the years of patient (planning, building and waiting naid off. Canadian Schen* i ley O.F.C. premiered in the I United States and in a few short months has taken its place among the favored few brands imported frorn^ our good neighbor to the HOUSING CHECKUP—Albert M. Cole. Federal Housing adminis trator. is keebing an eye on the continuing housing boom. Latest report Perfectly healthy. Cole made a study of the un usual amount of building activity which tnok place in the normally slack winter months. He reported to the other government economic units concerned that he found no saturation of the market, apart from a few scattered apartment vacancies. Credit was not exces The other groups making their independent surveys are the Council of Economic Advisers, the Department of Commerce, the Treasury Department, and the Federal Reserve Board. The per manent federal units think the | boom is a healthy one; the Eco t nrmic Advisers feei some restric i 'ions on lending might be in or der about May. BITS O’ BUSINESS — Steel scrap prices advanced, generally 1 a dollar a ton . . . Tourists in Western Europe will spend $500 million this year, says a report to the United Nations . . . Three soy bean processing plants shut down | in a day because bean prices were | too high . . . Crude rubber, which J I rose o.n Ike’- Formosa statement, has lost, all that gait) and a cent a round besides. I. BY BILL WHITLEY SURPLUS. Senator W. Kerr Scott joined a movement this week to channel millions of dol lars worth of surplus government property to schools and hospitals in North Carolina. A squabble has turned up in Washington about how the gov ernment should handle a large part of ins surplus property, equipment and supplies. WAR. In the immediate years after World War II, billions of dollars worth of surplus war ma terials and supplies were disposed of by the old War Assets Admin istration. The lush share of it went to firms and individuals who bought it for a song and sold it at fabulous profits. In 1949 Congress passed a law that required government agen cies to give educational and public health institutions first crack at property and equipment that had been declared surplus. Upon re-1 quest, the Federal government' 'would make outright gifts to fill approved needs. The schools, health offices and hospitals would have to pay only the charges for handling and shipping, which amounted to a mere fraction of the market value. NORTH CAROLINA. Under the program, North Carolina schools and hospitals have received real estate, equipment and supplies valued at over 39 million dollars. They received typewriters, paper, desks, c.hairs, tables, filing cabi nets, all sorts of laboratory equipment and many other items that were declared surplus by the Federal government. BOOST. Added together, it was a big shot in the arm for schools and hospitals that were in bad need of equipment at a time when they were watching budgets. However, under a directive is sued about a year ago, the De partment of Defense drastically cut the flow of surplus eqnibment going to schools and hospitals. It started selling surpluses on a bid basis, cutting the legs from under needy institutions. Under a recen-t bill introduced in the Senate, the Defense De partment would be required to of fer all surplus material to the De partment of Health. Education and Welfare for distribution to schools and hospitals before open sales are held. In short, it would mean that the former surplus program would be put hack into operation. SCOTT. Senator Scott., in an nouncing his support of the meas ure. said it was of vital concern tr. every health and educational institution in North Carolina. “There is a tremendous need for the surplus equipment the schools and hospitals have been getting in the oast." he said. “In •lulv and Angus’ alone iast year, i North Caro'ina schools and hos-I pitals requested equipment and supplies totaling almost $700,000. j There is no reason at all why schools and hospitals shouldn't get ' the first opportunity to obtain , equipment once it has been de-1 clared surplus and of no further value to (the Federal govern ment." Scott said he had received ‘‘quite a number of letter” from school and health officials in the State supporting the surplus dis posal program. Senator McClellan, Chairman of the Government Operations Com mittee, introduced the Dill. This committee, of which Senator Er win is a member, will hold heai^ ings on the trill. Motor Manners Can Save A Life Raleigh—Your motor manners can save a life. That statement was made this week by Major W. B. Lentz of the State Highway Patrol to spark the Motor Vehicles Depart ment’s year around prgomm for traffic courtesy. “A traffic accident,” Major Lentz said, "is pretty ganerally a result of negative action — of not heeding the law, of not driv ing defensively, of not adhering to simple good manners. There is no way of estimating how many lives might be saved every year by the exercise of a little con sideration, tolerance and pa tience, but the number probably would be staggering." Major Lentz said that many of the state's annua! traffic accidents involving pedestrians are perfect examples of how lack of motor manners can be deadly. “In 1953—the last year for which we have complete figures-^— 224 pedestrians wre killed in traffic in North Carolina. About half of these unfortunate people were using the street or highway unsafely. They . were, in other words, being discourteous or dis regarding others’ rights in the use of the roadway. Add to this figure the number of discourteous drivers also on the highway at the same time and there is noth ing surprising in the death toll.” The patrol e-xecutivo cited Na tional Safety Council figures showing that in practically all tiaffic accidents cither the driver, the pedestrian—or both—was vio lating a traffic. law or a safe prac tice. The same statistics hold true for the Tar Heel State. And in either case, he said, bad motor manners are involved. “Motor courtesy ia easily ac quired." Major Lentz said, "but it can be put into practice only with the exercise of constant at tention. The courteous driver is the one who says, ‘I’m going to save a life today, by watching my manners behind the wheel.’ ” North Carolina turkey growers indicate they will decrease their turkey production by about 25 ner cent in 1955, according to the North Carolina Farm Report. 'Methyl bromide gas for soil fumigation on vegetable plant beds should be applied when tem perature is 50 degrees or above. 2400 FREE CHICKS WE ARE GIVING AWAY 12 HEAVY BREED CHICKS TO THE FIRST 200 CUSTOMERS ENTERING OUR STORE SATURDAY MORNING MARCH 12th. 1955 AT 8:00 A. M. Bring Your Own Boxes UPCHURCH FEED & SEED STORE Phone 6121 203 N. Mountain St. Cherryville, N. C.
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