Wallace Enterprise
OF DUPLIN COUNTY
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H. L. OSWALD
WALLACE, NORTH CAROLINA
O. O. PHILLIPS.Editor
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Entered as Second Class Matter January 19, 1923,
at the Postoffice at Wallace, North Carolina,
under the Act of March 3, 1879.
Thursday, December 31,1942
Why History Is Often Wrong
It is a wise thing for one who reads not
to accept in full everything that he does
read. For instance, Marshal Petain, in
World War I. was given credit for the say
ing. “They shall not pass.” at Verdun, when
it developed later that he never said it.
The truth was that the higher army offi
cers had difficulty in keeping Petain from
surrendering his army to the Germans, be
cause he did not believe that they could
withstand the German onslaught and he did
not see the necessity of so many French
soldiers being killed in an attempt to hold
off the Germans.
In this present war, Chaplain William
Maguire was given credit in the daily papers
for having voiced the following expression,
“Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition,”
during the attack on Pearl Harbor. He
stated he may have said something like it,
but did not remember, then later on claim
ed that he never said it. It developed that
Chaplain Hawell M. Forgy was the author
of the expression. In the Petain case the
misstatement still goes on and the correc
tion has never caught up with it in full,
and probably the same thing is in store for
the other incident.
Efforts Made To Conserve Oil
Although fuel oil rations have been in
creased 10 per cent in 13 Middle Western
States, every effort is being made to con
serve oil stocks throughout the entire area
of 30 rationed states. In order to encour
age conversion from fuel oil to coal, new
coal stoves have been made available to
those who will use the heaters to replace
fuel oil equipment, who need to heat an
unheated space for essential working or
living whose present coal-Lurning equip
ment is not usable, or who are eligible for
additional fuel oil and will use a coal
heater instead.
Because of increased military needs for
the “red meats,” there’ll be further reduc
tions in civilian quotas of beef, pork, lamb,
mutton and veal, but these reduced al
lowances will be partly made up through
the release for civilian use of millions of
pounds of cured and frozen beef, dried beef,
beef sausage material, and various domes
tic cuts not suitable for military diets.
Farm Labor Presents
Big Problem
The supply of farm labor will be one of
our major problems next year. The War
Manpower Commission expects that some
7,900,000 persons will be employed in year
round farm work, and additional millions
will be needed seasonally in the various
agricultural areas. In December of this
year farm hired labor showed a decided
drop over the same time two years ago.
A large part of the loss was due to enlist
ment in the armed forces, the rest to the
attractions offered by war industries. The
deficit in farm labor must be met by . keep
ing labor on farms and by enlisting the
Services of an army of volunteer^ through
‘ it the country to help harvest next year’s
Additional labor, too, is needed to meet
our lumber production goal of 1943, set at
32 billion board feet. While our civilian
requirements will be about .40 per
than for 1942, we'll need far more
for aircraft, ship decking, pontoon
ction, ship and boat timber, and
al timbers.
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Civilians Wttt Not Benefit
Although American farms must raise a
great deal more crops of many kinds next
year, civilians'must not expfect to benefit
hy the increase. Our armed forces will
need much more^of all that is raised, and
so -will otrr Allies, England, Russia, and
the French in North Africa. For not only
is food, as it supports fighting men, a di
rect instrument of warfare, it is an es
sential bulwark of civilian populations in
war time. The hatred felt by the people
of occupied Europe for their Nazi oppres
sors is fed by the pangs of hunger, their
hopes of liberation and of ultimately get
ting food from us strengthen their resist
ance and definitely aid the Allied cause.
The plight of starving millions abroad
and the fearful conditions under which
many of our soldiers are fighting in jungle
and desert should awaken in all of us at
home the willingness to take cheerfully the
slight discomforts and minor hardships
which necessarily go with a war of this
kind, especially the inconveniences connect
ed with rationing and other restrictions
of scarce goods.
The combined savings of millions of
Americans, in motoring and heating, par
ticularly among those living along the At
lantic Seaboard, helped our army land in
North Africa and attack the Axis, but the
total quantity of these products needed for
a continuing campaign is enormous, and
will require the service of a fleet of tankers.
For this reason, the Arp&y has sent an urg
ent plea to civilians to.'save gasoline and
fuel oil in every way possible. At the
same time, the Petroleum Administrator
has warned that several areas in the East
have only enough motor gas for essential
needs—supplies in storage have been drain
ed by non-essential driving beyond pre
vious estimates.
Seal Lips—Save Ships*
No one can reckon what ships, or how
many, have been torpedoed through chance
remarks of relatives or friends of sailors
and others, or what vital information about
aur war production, war equipment or oth
er confidential matters has leaked through
to the Axis through careless gossip. A
safe rule, applicable to all such matters, is
expressed in the saying, “Seal Lips—Save
Ships.”
Fruit and vegetable gnnvers and ship
pers are urged to stock up on used wooden
boxes, crates, baskets, barrels and hamp
ers for 1943 crops, and cotton growers
should save and recondition old cotton bale
ties . . . The telegraph industry will aban
don its special services to customers, but
low-rate form messages may still go to
members of the armed services. Produc
tion of alarm clocks will be resumed early
next year . . . The nation’s castor oil sup
ply is at low ebb . . . The Director of De
fense Transportation urges the abandon
ment of all meetings and conventions, re
quiring travel, that do not contribute in an
important way to winning the war.
As the war progresses, the Allies no long
er are caught napping, at any point, how
ever obscure it may appear in the grand
strategy of the United Nations. If it is
surprising that American light tanks are
reported in action on the jungle-enclosed
strip of New Guinea Beach, how much
more extraordinary must have been the
means of getting them there.
On the economic front our government
must be equally far-seeing. More than 50
million pounds of seed, for example, have
been designed for planting on foreign soil,
under Lend-Lease arrangements. Some of
these seeds are supplied to areas occupied
by our troops, who will raise fresh vege
tables when they aren’t fighting. Grass
seeds are sent to new air fields for surfac
ing barren strips. But the bulk of the
seeds go for foods to feed the peoples of
Allied lands in desperate need of them and
to replant farmlands lately freed *from Axis
control. And seeds take up less shipping
space than produce in any other form.
Living today, and perhaps relatively un
known at the moment, is a man whose
force and genius will make his name re
membered an<f honored until the end of
time. '
Fort Benning, Ga.
Dearest Mother:
I am thrilled beyond words,
being one of 600 paratroopers
who have made the world’s rec
ord hi speed of 120 mile man
euver from camp Taccoa to At'
lanta.
We carried equipment weigh
ing more ' than 60 lbs. and
through the most terrible cold
weather Georgia has ever had.
We plodded through rain and in
mud ankle deep. At night we
slept between blankets on wet
ground, with water floating in
side our shoes. When we awoke
in the morning our coveralls
were frozen stiff enough to stand
without a soldier in them.
We were met five miles from
Atlanta by motorcycle police,
paraded through the city and
were honored at ceremonies pre
sided over by the mayor then
were served “eats and smokes”
by Red Cross workers. ■ We pro
ceeded to Terminal Station and
took train for Fort Benning.
After arriving here, they de
cided we did not need physical
examination after such a stren
ous trip. You should see my
blistered feet. We look like
“bums.” However, I am proud
of myself and I know you are
proud of me.
My parachute jumps will be
over by 26th. I can’t under
stand why people think its so
dangerous. Not one out of a
thousand get hurt.
We start leaving for a 10-day
furlough the 30th. I can’t wait.
After then we will be trans
ferred. Hope we go to Fort
Bragg. Mom I will see you
New Years. With love to the
best mother and dad in the
world,
“BUNK.”
W. M. Brice, Jr.
TRANSFERRED
Oscar “Buddy” Smith, United
States Naval Reserve, formerly
young Wallace merchant, was
transferred on December 1st
from the U. S. Naval Training
Station, Norfolk, Virginia to
Fleet Air Wings, Atlantic Flee,
U. S. Naval Air Station, Norfolk,
Virginia. His unit will reveice
orders in the near future for
further transfer.
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People’s Forum
Headers are Invited to contribute to
this column. Communications should
be brief and carry the writer’s cor
rect name and address which will
be published under the article. No
communication will be accepted for
publication unless it is signed. The
publisher reserves the right to re
ject any article not deemed worthy
of publication.
Friday, Dec. 25. 1942,
Christmas Day.
To the Editor, Mr. Phillips:
I waited for Christmas Day
to send greetings from the far
away West Coast. But when I
called the telegrapih office I
was told I could not send a mes
sage of greetings, because of
war. Hence, I now extend to
you and the folks back home,
the best of wishes and cordial
greetings for this Holy Blessed
Season. May we be inspired
with deeper faith and greater
service in the Master’s work.
With the prayer that soon again
peace may reign on earth.
Repeated thanlfe to every one
for your kindness to me. In
the words of Tiny Tim, “God
bless us every one” and every
body the world over. As I think
of how different this Christmas
Day is—with its plenty qf every
thing and cheer—compared to
my Christmas 1941 in sad
France, destitute, cold and
hunger. As the hour of mid
night struck—a collection for
war prisoners was taken—not
a word of greeting only bowed
heads. That was truly. “Silent
Night.”
MRS. CHARLES
Mrs. Charles Fisher Taylor
Seattle, Washington.
Civilian Defense
Information
By F. W. McGOWEN
THE SYSTEMIC POISONS
Hydrocyanic Acid, Artrine,
Hydrogen Sulfide
Although not immediately 1
ritating to the skin, eyes, nos
or lungs, these agents cause fc
Anyone rendering first aid in
a gassed area to an individual
who has just collapsed must be
protected by a mask or he will
also collapse. Do not enter a
gassed area without .a mask to
bring anyone out; you will not
get out yourself.
First Aid consists in inhala
tion of Amyl Nitrite fumes and
artificial respiration, until a
physician can begin medical
treatment. Artificial respira
tion should be continued for
hours, even though it appears
hopeless.
Arsine
Odor of garlic and metallic
taste are the only immediate
effects. Persons exposed to ar
sine must be kept quiet and
hospitalized as soon as {possible.
Meanwhile, they hould be given
large quantities of Alkalies such
as sodium bicarbonate, citrate
or phosphate to drink. This Al
kalinizes the urine and may
help to prevent coagulation in
the kidneys of protein from the
red blood cells destroyed by the
Arsine.
Weekly—
CHURCH
UMN
Conducted By
REV. M. 3. MURRAY
Pastors are invited to take advan
tage of this column for sermons,
church notices, etc. Stall sermons
and comnoutions' to Church Column
Editor, rare ~f this newspaper.
The Board of Missions of the
Methodist Church, #which for
more than a century has been
sending missionaries to South
America, recently commissioned
six young people to add to their
forces in the southern continent.
All are college and post-graduate
trained, and have had special
preparation in language and so
ciology for the people to whom
they are going. Mr. and Mrs.
Murray S. Dickson of Hillsboro,
Texas, are going to Bolivia for
educational work; thb Rev. and
Mrs.' Henry E. Plyler, of Madi
son, N. J. to Peru for evange
listic service; Miss Ruth E. Mc
Kinney, of Lake Ariel. Pa., and
Miss Gladys M. Oberlin. of Can
ton, N. Y., to Brazil for teach
ing service among Portuguese
speaking people. *
lor rerugees now released rroin
forced labor in the heat of the
African desert.” This is the
Christinas message sent to ev
ery Congregational • Christian
Chtorch > and Sunday School in
America by the Congregational
Christian Committee for War
Victims and Services. It is sign
ed hy -Dr. Douglas Horton, min
ister of the General Council.
Liu Liang-mo, a former secre
tary of the Y. M. C. A. ih China,
now visiting in the United
States says that In the years
of war with Japan 6,000,009 Chi
nese boys have died, 2,000,000
orphans have been made, and
50,000,000 Chiiiese people hgve
been made refugees. “Today
New York’s Sixth Avenue ‘L*
(sold to Japan) is fighting New
York’s Second Avenue ‘L’ (used
for American armament) in fhe
Pacific Ocean,” says Mr. Liu. “If
the American people had list;
ened to the pleadings of the
missionaries that scrap iron be
not sold to Japan, the Japanese
would not now have the Sixth
Avenue ‘L’ to hurl against Amer
ica’s sons.”-.
Dr A. L. Wamshuis, retiring
as American secretary of the
International Missionary Coun
cil, has been elected as chair
man for 1943 of the Foreign
Missions Conference of North
America. This conference is a
consultative gathering of more
than one hundred missionary
agencies of the United States
and Canada. The 1943 session
of the conference will mark the
fiftieth anniversary of its found,
ing. Two of the founders—Dr.
John R. Mott and Dr. Robert E.
Speer—are to be honorary co
chairman of the jubilee cele
bration.
Mrs. J. S. B
man of
War Savi
Treasa
Urges Evi
State EnL
Savings P:
Mrs. J. S.. Bla
town, State Educ
of tne War Sa
the Treasury E
President of the
ers, urges that all Norths <3*11!
»llna school officiate end studenfj
concentrate on the. School «
War Program during Deedraifl
and January.
Schools with officials and stu-i
dents showing a 90 per OariraMi
cent participation in the ptsH
chase of war bonds and stamps)
will be awarded a Schools at
War flag to fly over tfaSjp
schools. * ■ '
Every school In the 'S&jwfcH
it has not already done, st>;
should elect students and facul
ty members to war cotmHHHl
which shall be respohsime^or
organization of the school’s war
time activities and preparing the
school’s report to the
Mrs. Blair said. -
“Each school enlisting in the
Schools at War prograin,” .gfeuipS
plained, “should keep a ' Scttm
book containing pictures, wwlttezi.
reports, newspapers clipplhgjpn
any other evidence of th? JfngfS
ing war organization within)ura|
school. The scrapbooks wPjB
be completed on January 7 near
the time when the President
usually makes his report on the
state of the union.”
NOTICE FARMERS!
We Now Have a Big Stock of All Kinds of .
BUILDING MATERIALS
W ALLBUAKUS
SEWER PIPE
ROOFING
NAILS
FAINTS
HARDWARE
SEPTIC TANKS
BRICK
We invite you to visit our warehouse and office
located W. Vine & Center St.
GOLDSBORO, N. C.
BUILDERS SUPPLY COMPANY
Phone 390
NOTICE
a
Town of Wallace 1943 A|to License are
now on sale at the City Nall. Every car own
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