The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1943-08-05
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By DON ROBINSON
By DON ROBINSON
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IF a..v. solutions
If each farmer in this country
would spend three days between
now and the end of the year har-
vesting a crop of timber from his
woodlands, the threat of serious
pulp paper shortage would be
overcome.
If all the housewives of the
country would turn in every tin
can they are in the habit of
throwing away, our tin problem
would be nearly solved.
If all of us would spend 10 per
cent of our income for war bonds
and stamps, the wartime finan-
cial problems of the government
would be pretty we'll under con-
troll.
If each household would con-
tribute a pound of fat to the fat
drive each month, it would take
care of our needs for munition-
making and for soap manufacture
ing.
If each motorist would figure
out how to cut his gasoline con-
sumption down by as little as one
gallon a week, it would do great
deal toward ending the fuel prob
lem in the East and would also
ease our rubber crisis.
| And if each family which has
a plot of land had planted fair
sized Victory garden last spring,
the difficulties of feeding this ma
ton would be solved.
DROPS important
All of those ifs are of the drop
in-the-bucket variety. They are
reviewed here to re-emphasize
the fact that it actually takes We
ry little on the part of each of us
to achieve some major national
goal.
During the war it has been ap-
parent that some of us think the
little we can do is of such minor
Importance that it isn't worth the
| bother. If a housewife reads of
| the enormous need for tin cans,
she is apt to think of the four or
five cans she might contribute
each week as being such an in
finitesimal part of the demand
that it isn't worth bothering with.
But actually, the only reason
we can still get food in cans, and
the only reason the army can be
supplied with its needs for cans,
is that millions of housewives are
bothering to make this infinitesi-
NAL contribution each week. Each
contribution is just drop in the
bucket-but enough drops will
fill any bucket, no matter how
large.
We need to keep that in mind
constantly, as we are asked for
little sacrifices to help win the
war. They really will help. Our
war program depends on the CO.
operation of all of us-and the
little things become very big
things when multiplied by our
whole population.
VOLUNTEERS whips
So far, our government has
managed to keep its requests for
cooperation on a voluntary ba-
sis.
In Germany, if more pulpwood
was needed as it is here today,
Hitler would probably issue an
order that every farmer spend
three days cutting wood and
would provide a severe punish
ment for those who didn't obey.
But in this country we don't be-
lieve in getting cooperation by
threats. So instead of ordering
farmers to cut pulpwood, a big
advertising and promotion cam
paign will be carried on to appeal
to the patriotism of farmers and
to explain to them how it will
help win the war if each of them
will harvest crop of wood.
This method may be slower and
less productive, at first, than the
Hitler method. But in the long
run, as the Importance of this
contribution spreads, our farm
ers will undoubtedly show Hitler
once again that a lot more can be
accomplished by voluntary meth
DDS in a free country than by U.S.
ing whip.
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