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i HIS PERQUIMANS WEEKLY, HERTFORD, N. C, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1941 PAGE THREE WOW AI WASIIlitBTON w Dfl UiiOMk ft Mima WAMitlUtrtJkll I 'jllVMnAllHMl ii ii ii i ii ... , .. Red-Faced toelatkwlsts. Join Band WuNNh-U. S. Learns Lesson , Now that the non-interventionists 4 and isolationists, almost without ex ception, hve agreed that the Unite ' States is no longer isolated in the Pacific, it, is not to the interest of " national iinity to delve too deeply in ' 'to' the falseness of their views but it is moat important for the people of the "United States to understand the Wesson ' that the 'nation has been taught in the Pacific. For many years, in fact since 1918, a vociferous crew of alleged patriots have paraded up and down the nation, arrogantly asserting their own patri otism and denouncing what they call ed American intervention in worH f affairs. These super-patriots did tlfflr best to persuade the people of thji country that those who failed to agree with their isolation theories were attempting to serve the interest of foreign governments and were ob livious to the welfare of the people of this country. The Wheelers, Nyes, Johnsons and Lindbergs assumed to know every thing in connection with foreign af fairs and to have sources of informa tion superior to the Government of the United States. They were will ' ing to risk the safety of their gov 't ernment upon theiiopinion that oth- r nations had no designs against the United States and would not dare to attack this country. They talke.i Vtfthely of the invincibility of thj States and, occasionally. ke down enough to admit that thiti try should arm itself against ssible foreign attack. It should not be overlooked that the focus of the hatred of many of the alleged patriots was the British Em pire and the suspicion cannot be avoided that their judgment would have served the United Stated better had they hated the British less. These blind leaders of the nation asserted for years that we were completely isolated, that an attack upon the United States was impossible and that the prospects of war arose from the efforts of the President to med dle in the affairs of other people. It is interesting to recall that the Sjifttck upon Honolulu was so entire lJtAnprovoked by this country that even professional pacifists wavered inif their faith and decided to support the government against foreign at tafck. It is just as well for national Vnoty that the war began through Japanese deviltry in the l'acific be cause this has solidified public opin io.ny.jn the United States, convincing even the isolationists and non-inter-veptionists that the United States had no choice but to defend herself. The reader should not fail to com prehend the present world situation or to understand that the Japanese attack upon Pearl Harbor represents km 3 r Hitler to launch a surprise attack upon some great metropolitan city on the eastern seaboard. Had war come to us in the Atlantic through taggeaaioifr6Iii the nation-finds itself die-hard non-interventionists and iso lationists would have pretended that the President of the United States was responsible for the attack. Since war began in the Pacific, while Pres ident Roosevelt was in the midst of an earnest and sincere effort to ar range a peaceful settlement of issues in the Far East, there is no way to blame his policies for the conflict. Labor . Wins Closed Shop But John L. Lewis Being Isolated. On the day that Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, the three-man arbitra tion board appointed by President Roosevelt to arbitrate John L. Lewis' captive coal mine dispute, reached a decision. This Board, ruled that all workers in the captive coal mines should be required to join John L. Lewis' United Mine Workers, revers ing the decision of the National De fense Mediation Board. The decision was reached by a 2-1 vote, with Benjamin F. Fairless, of the United Steel Corporation, dis senting. The' other two members of the Board are Dr. John R. Steelman. Director of the U. S. Conciliation Service, and Mr. Lewis. In explaining why he vjted for the union shop, Dr. Steelman pointed out that 99.5 per cent, of all miners of the nation are members of the union, and 95 per cent, of the 50,000 captive miners have voluntarily assume'! membership in the C. I. O.. Thus, hr reasons, the United Mine Workers were not endeavoring to take advant age of the national emergency to change the status quo. The Mediation Board did not vote in favor of Mr. Lewis' union, accord ing to Dr. Steelman, because the Board did not feel that workers should be made to join the union through government compulsion Since, however, the arbitration chan nel was functioning independently of the government, it was in a position to make a decision based solely on the merits of the dispute. Now the captive coal mine strike is over. Labor has won. John L. Lewis and the government were la bor's champions. By being labor's champion, hasn't the government un Hvminof) Tilin T . T curie rmcitifin Hasn't the President of the Unitei States succeed.ed in isolating John L Lewis' command? In criticizing John L. Lewis' de mands, the New Jersey State Indus trial Union of the C. I. O. passed a resolution denouncing John L. Lewis for his connection with the "America First Committee and its Fascist char acter." The resolution also said thai "no labor leader can represent the in terests of labor and at the same time be connected in any way with the America First or any other Fascist- true that John L. Lewis' strike was chiefly responsible for the House passage of the Smith Bill, which has been termed by the present Adminis tration as a much too drastic meas ure? U. Sf vs. Axis Aggressors. Schools vs. Battleships. Isolation Proves Costly. We Face Stupen dous Test. For once in the history of the a piece of the pattern of lawlessness that dominates Axis purposes. The i linked organization. flatty reason why our war did not be-1 Laborers have a right to be dis gin in the Atlantic was the fact that gusted with John L. Lewis. Was it Gyftt Britain stood between the, not John L. Lewis' captive coal mine United States and the striking power strike that turned the wrath of the fltfOermany, making it impossible fori nation on organized labor? Is it not Of 088 (S3 WW y r S 1 J . -4 Price? O The scduslve Croaley "Floating Jewel Tone System" (Pal. applied for) Ja this distinguished radio-phonograph combina- ; ,. tion means added enjoyment for you when you play yow favor- ke reoordinga-whcthcr they are brand-new o old and worn. By virtually eliminating all nirfact nolaa and needle acratch, : ' this revolutionary Croaley development bringi out with com-, ' . plete fidelity evary variation of ton, plus adding an extra full t octave of low tone! Your records la FTVB TIMES longer, ' too. And, there's 10-tube performaact in this 8-tuba AC super- heterodyne on American and Complete-Band Foreign wave-; : lengths. For extra conveJilenca, a slide-out panel in the striking ; walnut Cabinet makes the sutomstie record player imtandy : accessible. Be sure to see this outstanding Croaley value today. .' - g c , t:' ..y-f r. J ,v;.:...-t;.r.-A Itiffiiiiit nctl.' 'Hertford Hardvrare & f " . - 'r Company ,; faced with three great powers, as a result of war declarations, against us. It should be noted that Japan, Germany and Italy took the initiative in declaring war against the United States and that Germany and Italy acted to support the hostilitites ini tiated by Japan and to demonstrate complete Axis solidarity. We well remember, a few years ago, when admirals of the United States' fleet appeared before Con gress and based their requests for warships upon a comparison of our naval strength and that of the three Axis powers. They were hooted and derided by the pacifists, isolationists and economy-minded congressmen who insisted that this nation should build schoolhouses and not battle ships. Few congressmen, at that time, had the faintest idea that, in 1941, the United States would be en gaged in an all-out war with the Axis aggressors. Japan's attack upon the United States widened the conflict to em brace the entire world and the action of Germany and Italy provide over whelming evidence that these three nations are engaged in a supreme ef fort to overthrow Western civiliza tion, including the governments of both the United States and Great Britain. Luckily for us at this time, the English-speaking nations are receiv ing assistance from the armies of China and Russia. This is not due to any foresight on our part but solely to the aggressive attacks of our enemies. Japanese war on China and Germany's attack upon Russia have spread hatred between the peo ples concerned and this will probably work to the advantage of the United States and Great Britain. The chances are that Germany and. Japan will ease their attacks upon Russia and China and concentrate the full fury of their aggression upon their main enemies, the United States and Great Britain. There is every prospect that the United States will find the present conflict a stupendous test of national strength and morale and that peace will be won only through an amazing expenditure (if money and a frightful cost in blood. There is nothing to be gained in ig noring the terrible dangers which confront the United States as a result of our foolish disarmament policy, the absurd fetish of isolation, and the utterly senseless pacificism of mis guided people in this country. They have brought the country to the brink of almost inevitable disaster and the Ship of State will be saved only through the exertion of a united peo ple, steeled to super-endurance and ready to pay the price to maintain their independence and to preserve the liberties and freedom of America. Farmers Urged To Produce No. 1 War Material Food "What can I do? is the question being asked now by North Carolina farmers in the early days of this war. Dean I. O. Schaub of State College, agricultural representative on the Executive Committee of the State Defense Council, answers the question in part. He says: "Agriculture's part in the war-time economy of the United States is to produce the No. 1 war material food. We need to grow more food than we've ever grown be fore. We don't need more tobacco or cotton, and if necessary we should sacrifice acreage of these two crops to produce food, and feed from which food can be produced." Dean Schaub said the goals es tablished under the Food-for-Freedom campaign, and accepted by farmers when they signed their Farm Plans for 1942, will insure enough food for home use, and for the fighting forces of the United States and her allies. "But under no circumstances can we afford to fall short of meet ing these goals," he declared. "The best policy now is to plan to exceed the goals." The State College leader said the two immediate and practical jobs for farm people are to see that farm ma chinery is in good repair, and to col lect scrap metal off the farm and sell it to junk yards. '"Steel is scarce," Dean Schaub as serted, 'ibid more scrap metal is ur gently needed for steel production. The manufacturers of farm machin ery must know at once how much steel will be needed to produce repair parts for farm tractors, combines, and other' machines. The metal will be allocated to produce these parts. The problem right now is to deter mine what parts are required."" i The United States has a great superiority in the matter of food, Dr. Schaub said, "and it is up to farm people to see that we remain super ior," he asserted, k i r Not Called That , , Psychologist When children are naughty, quickly switch their, atten tion. .' New Farm Publications Available At College State College announces that three new farm publications are available for free distribution to North Caro lina farmers, and that a popular Ex tension circular on egg production has been revised and re-printed. The new publications are: Exten sion Circular No. 252, "For Better Farming in Western North Carolina;" and Extension Folder No. 49, "Creep Feeding Beef Calves." , F. H. Jeeter, agricultural editor at State College, announced that Exten sion Circular No. 158, "Feeding for Egg Production," was revised and re printed because of the demand which exhausted the supply of the original publication. He explained that in terest is high in expanded egg pro duction to meet the goals in the Food-for-Freedom campaign which is a part of the National Defense program. . C. F. Parrish, Extension poultry man, and Prof. R. S. Dearstyne, head of the State College Poultry Depart ment, are co-authors of both the Chick-Raising and Feeding for Egg Production circulars. T. T. Brown and C. J. Maupin, other Extension poultry specialists, helped with the former, and H. C. Gauger, poultry disease specialist at the college, as sisted with the latter. The circular on Better Farming in Western North Carolina is a compila tion of reports made by farmer-committees who attended the annual Western North Carolina Farmers' Convention at Boone 'last summer. The reports, offering recommenda tions for approved farming practices in 13 enterprises, were compiled by R. W. Shoffner, Extension farm management specialist .Sam L. Williams, assistant Exten sion animal husbandman, prepared the Creep Fedding folder which con tains a drawing of a calf creep. Any, or all, of these publications will be sent to farmers free upon re quest, by name and number, to the Agricultural Editor, State College Station, Raleigh. CHILD KILLS AUNT Chicago. Explaining hysterically that she thought the pistol a "cap" pistol, Roberta Long tolj police that she had picked up a revolver from a kitchen table, pointed it at her aunt Mrs. Nellie Armstrong, 73, and cried, "Bang." Mrs. Armstrong fell dead with a bullet in her head. IF HE CANT GET HOME FOR CHRISTMAS- SEND A CARTON OF CAMELS Your dealer hat a special wrapping and maiUns ser vice lor aendinff Camel cartons to men Id the service. Actual sales records in Post Exchanges, Sales Commissaries, Ship's Stores, Ship's Service Stores, and Canteens show that with men in the Army, Navy, Marines, and Coast Guard, the favorite cigarette is Camel. THE SMOKE OF SLOWER -BURNING CAMELS CONTAINS 28 Less Nicotine than the average of the 4 other largest-selling Cigarettes tested less than any of them according to independent scientific tcstsof the smoke 1 1 self ! Come in and get our deal on the finest all-round tire vvii fC tri ivrrri90 9 in tire J mamofpurfa'endsrfdeonr - . U. 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