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FOUR THE JOHNSTON1AW -SUN, SELMA, N. C THURSDAY, JAN. 2, 1941. THE JOHNSTONIAN - SUN M. L. STANCIL, Editor Published every Thursday by The Johnstonian-Sun, Selma, Johnston County, North Carolina. Phone 205. , Entered July 4, 1929 at the postofflce at Selma as second class matter under an act of Congress, March 8, 1879. : ' : - : ' ; - v ' ' V ' - ' SUBSCRIPTION PRICE One Year $1.00 Six Mos. 50c Three Mob. 25c PUBLISHER'S NOTICE: This paper is not only glad to receive communications containing news items, Eut invites such. We cannot publish such communica tions unless we know the author. It it not necessary that the author's name be published but we must know it. ' National Advertising Representatives: American Press Association, New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Detroit. In sending in an order for change of address, sub scriber should give both old and new address. This insures prompt change. North Carolina i ' PBESS ASSOCIATION! INDUSTRY'S DECLARAJ ION Along about the middle of December the Congress of American Industry met in New York City, bringing together industrial leaders from every part of the land. These men heard experts speak upon every national problem of importance : to manufacturers, and they also approved a document which represents the attitude and the belief of American industry as a whole. That document is commonly known as "Industry's Platform," and it is important for all Americans to know about its main points. The Platform makes specific and important recommendations along many lines it does the heart of anyone interested in the national welfare good to read them and it closes with the following "pledge," in which more than 3,000 manufacturers representing large and small companies belonging to the National Association of Manufacturers concur: "The 1940 Congress of American Industry reaffirms Industry's Program for American Progress and the Declaration of Principles Relating to the Conduct of American Industry, adopted by this Congress in 1938 and in, 1939,; and further pledges itself "(1) to continue to defend against attack from any source the American concept' of freedom constitutional representative democ racy; private enterprise and civil and religious liberty, including freedom of speech and free dom of the press; "(2) to exert its utmost effort in coopera tion with the government' to carry out the program of national defense with all possible speed and efficiency; " (3) to maintain at the same time, as far as possible, production of goods and services to meet normal needs; " (4) to do its full part to prevent or cushion a threatened post-war economic depression, by supporting and following practices which will contribute to the maintenance of a healthy economic life; and "(5) to continue to promote within industry, recognition and fulfillment of the economic and social responsibilities which industrial manage ment shares with other groups for improve ment and advancement of the general welfare. fThe Congress of American Industry Pledges Itself to Work For the Preservation of America's Institutions and the Protection of America's Future' At a time when we need real "national think ing" on the part of all groups involved in the defense effort, this document is indeed an encouraging sign. POLITICAL LUXURIES MUST GO One recent statement of the President says that his next budget will involve drastic paring of government expenditures with the sole exception of those which have a direct bearing on the defense program. That is sound. It will meet with the approval oFtheJ .people. V :;-V The President and his financial aids certain ly have a wide field for slashing expenditures in many overgrown activities of the govern ment. There can be no further excuse for relief spending on a grandiose scale, inasmuch as the rearmament drive is rapidly absorbing the unemployed, according to the government's own official figures. And, vastly , important, there can be no further excuse for the spend ing of tax funds for purposes which can and should be left to private enterprise and private capital. BENDING NEUTRALITY " Methods and proposals are being discussed in Washington to revise the Neutrality Act to permit American ships to carry war supplies to Britain. Of course that would be inviting danger to our shipping interests such as landed us in trouble in the World War. Some of the Senators have been vigorously defend-' ing the "cash and carry" program that has been in operation for some time. . ELECTRIC POWER EXPANSION ? Judging by the attention that has been given the Federal government's hydro-electric projects, an uninformed person might be led to believe that the bulk of the nation's power supply now comes from this socialized source. . But the fact is that 90 per cent of the demand for power is being satisfied by the private utilities and that the abnormal demands for power occasioned by the defense program will have to be met by them. . According to Federal Power Commission statistics, the private utilities generated 115,- 077,919,000 kilowatt hours of energy last year 90 per cent of the total. Municipally owned companies and the Federal projects each gen erated about five per cent of the total. . And that doesn't give the whole picture by a long shot. Writing in Public Utilities Fort nightly, Andrew Barnes, veteran Washington correspondent, points out that the Federal power projects are almost all in geographic areas where manufactures vital to national de fense are largely or totally lacking. The prin ciple national defense industries are concen trated in the Northeast and North Central regions and these regions are served almost 100 per cent by private utilities; along with a small number of municipal systems. To quote Mr. Barnes : "The public power system was laid out virtually without any relation what ever to national defense production." ' That being the case, it is reassuring to know that the utilities are cooperating fully with the national defense program by PLUG THOSE HOLES JameS Preston TIMES and theme songs change ' inn istlrl ir i ' WdatiimrvtAii aAmAflmAO so rapidly that the singers ' them selves can't keep up. And sometimes, as now', those who sang loudest wish they had chosen another tune. Up until the last week in Novem ber, the President himself in Hyde Park was making complimentary re marks about the speed of the de fense program. Then in mid-Decem ber emphasis shifted to talk about how defense is lagging, how the na tion hasn't been sufficiently "sold" on the necessity for speed, how the week-end production.- - "black-out? should be eliminated. To those in the know in Washing ton,' the facts were exactly the same in November as in' December. The only thing was that the public had been oversold on a few things, To illustrate, those who made mu nitions and guns had been so effec tively classed in the public mind as "merchants of death" that there weren't any producers of these goods. New plants had to' be built, Again, machines had been built up as destroyers of jobs. The makers of machines had just been coasting along on the little business which people had to give them. Now, though, machines and machine makers are needed, but they can't .' "AID TO ENGLAND" The phrase of the moment is "Aid to England." I for one, am sick of it. Dr. Gallup says practically all Ameri cans favor "aid to England." Most of despite the . , . . . matim ovpr our columnists speak learnedly of the aggressively unfriendly treatment they have niKht "aid" we already are giving Britain. uur treoiue.it ucuveio uuudcii long been subjected to by government. Prac tically every power company in the country is now expanding its plant. Hundreds of millions are being spent. Hundreds of thousands of additional kilowatt hour capacity is being in stalled. More is planned for the future, as the defense drive .gains pace. And it is being done with private dollars not tax dollars. The private utilities, today as in the past, are doing a mighty job on behalf of American security and American well-being. COOPERATIVE MARKETING Agriculture is forced to make readjustments to cope with the changing world. The agricul tural marketing cooperatives, representative organizations oi .-.America s yiugie&aive iuiii-. ers, are working to make those readjustments as easy to take as possible. These cooperatives are helping the farmer expand his domestic markets, now that Euro pean markets are largely lost. They are con stantly working with other interested groups to obtain for the producer a fairer proportion of the final selling price of what he raises. They have at their command experts in many fields who watch trends, and lay plans for meeting problems as they arise. They act for the farmer in dealing with agencies of govern ment. They maintain departments which help the farmer produce more crops or better crops at a lower overhead cost. This work goes on day after day, year after year. It is not affected by the changing winds of political farm policy. It does not depend on subsidies and special laws. For the marketing cooperatives are supported by their members, and are owned by their members. They stand on their own feet and they represent farming on its highest plane of efficiency. A 1cn mMramimaTir nvAOO acronfct Vkflfl 7 UUn aIbami aIam fhat AI11 QlH T.A contracts being granted. Since this England" lias reached its peak. (You followed optimistic talk about 50,000 "ay .be tired of those quotation oi,io.. .nj wrui. nviW the marks, but so am I.) . v. ,fi,i ,.v Has there ever in the strange his They were undersold on the fact that tory of civilized men been any such there is a lot which must happen "lssf such maddening, such utterly between ordering a tank and actually BPiA and indefensible hypocrisy as mat represented Dy ine pnrase 0-""0 - - ' t7-tl la Sfill xroin nunlo lud hppn told " JMigUMIU ' MW... ...., uw.u I . . . ... 1 fhf , Mh'm poih rm itmlf and neaven s nign name, now nave still have its present comforts and England? When? Whose luxuries . samnce prouuceu uib . mu ; Nw hr U nffiHal doubt about We have sold England an inde -li a ,w.u. 5b terminate number of mHitary air- an viicoc vitiligo jjvcii uiiiwiHuviii i . - . , . hMrlm.h.'ti. yn thm nonle will see Pnes. She has paid cash. She has iit oi r ffoi Hofonso come and got them. ;-n.; i,o ,-ni,oa fmd We ; have sold England, I under ICBllCl.iailV nncil niev iiv.svv. I ' -i 1 nishing Britain's weapons) requires stand, some old rifles and various cash. She came and got them. We have sold England, it is hinted, FERREE CALLS FOR HONEST ELECTIONS Asheboro G. O. P. Leader Offers Some Suggestions To Ralph Gardner of the Young Democrats. sacrifices. in FEEDING THE STARVING EUROPEANS There is no hard-hearted opposition Washington against sending food and relief to any of the countries that have been wiped out, and their people impoverished by the war. The real difficulty is that there is a fixed conviction in the administration and legislative circles in Washington that it -would be impossible to keep food from being captured and used by the Germans, and that they would take it away from countries like the Scandinavias, France, Holland, and others. In the World War terms were arranged under which American food supplies were" dis tributed to certain countries. There is only one reason why that is impossible at the present time. Tfyat one reason is that Hitler controls the European situation and is the World's No. 1 liar. MOKE information tnereiore win gome tankgt especialIy 8ome tanks we -;leak" out about difficulties tne wanted tested on desert battlefields defense program must overcome. w. ftave boia Eneland wain and There will be talk about how the SUMr. iron and cotton, shoes and cost of the program must be m- 8hiDS and sealing wax. creased both to "lease" material to Erurland must (under our law) pay Britain and to meet rising wage casn v levels. Encland must under our helpful Many manufacturers contracted to I law) come and get them, produce defense goods with the un- Finally, in a moment of benign derstanding that their employees generosity, we traded England some would work 40 hours a week. There rotting destroyers for some air naval aren't enough trained workers in bases so valuable to our defense that numerous industries to put on addi- even Mr. v Churchill had difficulty tional shifts. Therefore, present lustifvine the deal to his Parlia- workers must stay on the job more ment. than 40 hours. But. as it is now We are cointr (as part of our being made clear, unions insist upon magnificient program of "aid to Eng- time and a half for all hours over land"! to sell her more and more - - r 40 a week. Hence more money must! planes, if our factories will just be spent for the same things if they decide to produce them fast enough, are to be purchased faster. 1 : We are going to sell England If night shifts are put on the cost practically anything she wants if also will rise in manv cases. One de- we don't want it first and we are fense producer who went on a three going to let her use our own Ameri- instead of a two-shift basis dis- can ports to load ner purcnases into covered that his "eravevard" night her own ships, oi..v m 09 ont iocs offiniont I And Napoleon called Hingiand a mill ITUa dU UV . VIIV abuu xBawwav I that the two dav shifts. nation of shopkeepers! Another thing which may be made America, thoU vai.ant tnou clear is that makers of defense goods ui "'- aren't going to be war millionaires. cruelty ana oppression, ur mu. 1 :t w. r J fender of men's minds and mens n 1 , t f properties of men's "rights." Hid 11 W 1VC mm VI 1 K ..v , , those who produce munitions. The 4 inspiration we are to the average fee allowed so far is less suffering humanity of older more than 5 per cent, and that, of course, HOUSING BOOM All the wheels have been oiled in Washing ton for the government machine that will build new houses throughout the country. Every locality directly connected with the de fense program will be providecr with new homes that will likely be financed by the gov ernment. Banks and building and loan associa tions, and other concerns, will also be backed in what seems likely to become a home build ing boom for 1941. One American chemical company alone buys $1,500,000 worth of cotton each year from the farmer. , ' - is before Uncle Sam takes his taxes out of the 5 per cent. , In one important . industry, the average ree aoove actual costs is 1 O mam iah : TIia ntAMt a-F MA producer in this group shows wiry it VI,le Ky is difficult to tell all the facts to the public, i This producer was asked if the government couldn't make a public statement about his patriotism. He raised his hands ' in horror and re fused, saying he didn't want to be painted in public as a munitions maker." He may go a long way toward . a t. 1 11 t saving tne country, out tne peopie wont know it. And all because of a jolly theme song with which politi' cians had a lot of fun. benighted lands. We are opening our hearts. We are opening our order books. We are ready to sell England several useful items. Ain't it wonderful? James S, Pope in The Courier-Journal, Louis- A. I. Ferree of Asheboro, well known G.O.P.: leader in the state, has called upon Ralph W. Gardner, president of the Young Democrats and legislator-elect from Cleveland county, in a public statement, to pro mote a "feeling for better and more honest election laws" through Gard ner's proposed Democratic clubs in high schools and colleges of the state. "I fully appreciate the enthusiasm of this young politician," Ferree' s statement begins, "and trust that he will, in organizing his new clubs, promote a feeling for better and more honest election laws. I would suggest that he advocate to his new clubs the same election laws for primary and general election. The last legislature abolished the absentee ballot law and markers for primary,, but left them on for . the general election.. . - .-. .' k "The promoter for this two-election law system stated that the Democratic party in western North Carolina needed a little lee-way and nrpvAilprf nnnn trip Iptrislnturp tn Ipava. 1 1 - - -o - the absentee ballot law and marker system for the general election. The same legislative also failed to make provision for paying the markers and thereby left it up to the politicians and candidates to pay them for their worn on election aay. "Mr. Gardner should also prevail upon his clubs to change the methods and manner in which election officials are appointed. Under our present system the Democratic party appoints all the election officials and gives their party about two-thirds ma jority in each precinct. This is wholly unfair and I know of no other organization in the state that nuuivimca . all Uluair DyBbCIU where contests are held. , "Mr. Gardner might also advise his newly-organized clubs to advo cate that the next legislature pass a law placing the registration books back at the county courthouse with all other county records instead of leaving them in the hands of the chairman of the board of elections." HERE IS OUR SIDE Getting out this paper is no picnic. If we print jokes, people say we are silly. If we dont, they say we are too serious. If we clip things from other newspapers, we are too lazy to write them ourselves. If we dont, we are too fond of our own stuff. If we don't print contributions, we don't appreciate true genuis. If we do print tlietrt, the paper is filled with Junk. Now, like as not, someone will say we swiped this from some other newspaper .... wis uiui Wendell Willkie Is Hunting For New Job Wendell L. Willkie said in New York a few days ago that he is still "looking for a job any job for a fellow who likes to argue." Accompanied by Samuel P. Pryor, Jr., vice chairman of the Republican national committee, and GeneTunney, who has been appointed a naval lieutenant commander, Willkie left La Guardia field for Hobe Sound, Fla., Saturday, to continue his vaca tion, v Asked if he considered himself out of politics, Willkie replied: "Didn't the people vote me out in the last election-?" - i Then he smiled and explained he did not quite mean it that way. A report issued , by the U. S. Census Bureau f revealed that con sumption Tf. rl cotton in American mills in November totaled 744,088 bales, setting & new record for that month. Willie Benson Killed When Struck By Car Elevation Township Man Killed Instantly When Struck By Car Driven By Robert Godwin. Christmas Eve night, about. 7:30, Willie Benson, 58-year-old Elevation township farmer, met instant death on the Benson-Garner highway just west of the town of Benson when struck by a car driven by a man by the name of Robert Godwin. Benson' is reported to have been walking on the left side of the road going from the town' of Benson, when the Godwin car approached him going in the direction of the town of Benson. , , - Sheriff Kirby Rose and Deputy Monroe Parker investigated the tragedy for Coroner E. N. Booker and decided that no blame should be attached to Godwin, who told them that he was blinded by the head lights of another car and did not see Benson until it was too late to avoid striking him. PROFITABLE The 300 White Leghorn hens owned by J. M. Stephenson, Willow Springs. Route 1, converted $46.90 spent for feed into an income of $99.62 from eggs during the past month for a net profit of $53.72.
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