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The Lincoln times., 1945-04-09

year. 1t may kill you or one of those
you love. Every hour cancer is kill
ing eighteen Americans.
Five million dollars are needed this
year for an all-out war on cancer.
The local Pilot Club is sponsoring
this drive in Lincoln county. The goal
for this county has been set for
1000, and the week of April 16
through April 81 has been designa-
ted as Cancer Week. It's not the 9TH
er fellows job It's your job-to save
yourself and those you love. Give and
get your friends to give. The small
est gift is as important as the larg-
est. Give to conquer cancer! Give
now!
The Lincoln times., 1945-04-09
FORREST, THE MAN.

Periodically an outstanding
book appears which shows
how the individuality of some
man had an irresistible infiu-
ence on persons who came in
contact with him. The United
States has been built by such
individuals since the first land
ing at Plymouth Rock.
Bobbs-Merrill has just pub
lished First With the Most,
Forrest" a work by Robert S.
Henry, which reviews the life
of such a man. He became a
legend during the Civil War
Nathan Bedford Forrest. I'm
like the phrase which Prime
Minister Churchill coined, "too
little and too late," Forrest is
known for his military maxim,
"first with the most"-often
misquoted, Get their fustest
with the mostest men "
1t does any of us good to
read about men like Forrest
who by sheer individuality
rose from the bottom to the top
of the ladder in their activi-
ties. His military life started
at the age of forty, after he
had made more than a million
dollars trading in lands, live
stock, cotton planting, and the
buying and selling of slaves,
in which latter trade he was
noted for not separating fami-
lies or selling to individuals
who would be cruel masters.
F'orty-fve of his slaves fol-
lowed him through the Civil
War as teamsters and he gave
them their papers 1S months
before the war closed for fear
he might be killed.
He enlisted as private IN
the Confederate Army be-
cause his "vote had been un-
able to preserve the peace"
He was the one private of all
the armies of that war to rise
to the rank of lieutenant gen.
eral, and whose operations
long after he was dead were to
receive the respectful study of
commanders of armies in the
United States and Europe. He
had no previous military edu-
cation and little schooling. AS
private or general he was in
the midst of combat. He was
wounded four times, had 20
horses shot out from under
him, and was credited with no
fewer than 80 enemy soldiers
accounted for in hand to hand
fighting.
Mr.. Henry's book is a fasci-
mating story of Civil War ac-
ton that is generally buried in
dry, factual history. The book
gives the reader a better un-
derstanding of the South, and
II illustrates once again that
the United States was built by
individuals, regardless of
which side they were on, or
the lowliness or prominence of
their positions,
The Lincoln times., 1945-04-09

The following 1945 AAA practices
require prior approval of your Coun-
ty AAA Committee: contour strip
cropping, contour row crops, contour
drilled crops. open ditch drainage,
tile drainage, permanent pasture,
pasture improvement, and terracing.
The Lincoln times., 1945-04-09

WANTED TO RENT-Seven Or s.,
room house in residential section
Write or phone to D. L. Crook,
field supervisor of the Charlotte
Observer, care Shelby Hotel, Shell
by, N. C. 3-15-4tt
The Lincoln times., 1945-04-09
With Our Service Men

~~> >>-~~~~~~~~~ >~~--~-~~~.
1t. Seibert Lockman has written
his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. R. NJ. Lock-
man, that he has been promoted to
the rank of first lieutenant. Before
returning to the States January IL,
LII. Lockman spent three years in the
Pacific, being on duty in Australia,
New Guinea, Nertherland East In
dies and the Philippines.
Capt. Dan B. Lockman, who has
been stationed at Enid, Okla, has
been transferred to the Bird Air Force
flying P SO Reconnaissance plane
and will be stationed in Oklahoma
City, Oklahoma. His new address is
Capt. D. B. Lockman, Squadron S.
Will Rogers Field, Oklahoma City,
Okla. Capt. Lockman is the son of
Mr. and. Mrs. r. M. Lockman.
-
Address: Sgt. Howard l.. Summit,
Assn 3459S912, 272nd Base Unit (SS)
lSqdn. D. TAAF. Topeka, Kansas.
=
Sgt. Paul Kistler, who was wound
ed in action in Germany and was re-
moved to hospital in England, is
making normal Improvement accord
ing to a card received from him on
March 25. Sgt. Kistler is the son of
Mr.. and Mrs. L. S. Kistler, of Lin
colnton, Route 8. His wife is making
her home in Cherryville while he is
overseas.
The Lincoln times., 1945-04-09

A total of 1,248,441 quarts of. food
were canned by North Carolina All
club members last year in food pres
ervation activities.
The Lincoln times., 1945-04-09
.TTENTION CHICKEN GROWERS

ATTENTION CHICKEN GROWERS
We carry a complete line of
SPARTAN FEEDS. See us for your
Chick Starter, Growing and Lay
ing Mash. Increase your income by
feeding Spartan Feeds. Farmers
Supply Co. Phone II, Lincolnton,
N. C. 1-29-tf
The Lincoln times., 1945-04-09

PORTABLE Electric Heaters. Now
available. Price 1885. Phone $50.
Conner Furniture Co. 4-S-2t
The Lincoln times., 1945-04-09

FOR SALE-TomatO plants. Mar
globe and Break O'Day. Also 9th
er varieties. Mrs. Lola Mace, Lin
colnton, N. c., R. l. 4-2-2t~
The Lincoln times., 1945-04-09

FOR SALE-Five burner Perfection
oil cook stove, practically new.
Mrs. C. P. Heavier, Z w. Main St.
4-2-tf
The Lincoln times., 1945-04-09

WATKINS PRODUCTS-Crylite in
sect dust, harmless to humans, 10
pounds for $500; spray gun for
dust, $1.25; fly spray, stainless, per
gallon, $500. Mail your order and
l will make delivery. L. V. Finger,
Box 225, Maiden, N. C. 3-12-2m.
The Lincoln times., 1945-04-09

FOR SALE-1934 Ford vs. Coupe.
Rumble seat, good tires, good mo-
tor. Ceiling price. Mrs. H. G. Gro
well. Phone pol. 4-2-4t
The Lincoln times., 1945-04-09

restriction on suits
are lifted. We are now in position
to tailor you suit according to
your wishes. See me at the Mems
Shop. C. R. Hartman, Prop.
1O-26-tf
The Lincoln times., 1945-04-09

WE WILL BUY any make or model
used car from 80 up Top cash
prices for clean ones Lincoln Mo-
tor Co. Phone 80. Lincolnton, N. C.
The Lincoln times., 1945-04-09

SEWING MACHINES: Singers and
White Rotarys. Thoroughly recon
ditioned and in First Class Condi-
tion. Conner Furniture Co. Phone
$50. 4-9-2t
The Lincoln times., 1945-04-09

GET OUR prices before you buy in
laid linoleum. We will lay it. Varie-
ty of patterns. Saunders Furniture
and Radio Shop. 10-19-tf
The Lincoln times., 1945-04-09
Want

FOR SALE-Slightly used binder on
rubber. Also good team of mules.
Ellis Bingham, Lawndale, Route 8,
at Toluca. 2t 4-9*
The Lincoln times., 1945-04-09

SPENCER individually designed sup
ports for abdomen, back and breasts.
For men, women and children with
spinal conditions and hernia. Mrs.
Dorothy Burke Cathey, Route 8,
Lincolnton, N. C. Phone 4lS-J.
11-30-6m.s
The Lincoln times., 1945-04-09

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. to care for
1O-room rooming house. Prefer
married couple, childless. Board and
room furnished for both. Mrs. C. P.
Heavier, West Main st. 4-2-tf
The Lincoln times., 1945-04-09

Be Smart! Read the Times Regularly
The Lincoln times., 1945-04-09

FOR RENTlThree good farms.
furnish stock and tools. W. A.
Sain, Lawndale, N. c., near Toluca.
4t-4-5*
The Lincoln times., 1945-04-09

FOR SALE-Man's bicycle. Fred
Carpenter. Startown Road, Lin
colnton, Route 2. 1t-4-5*
The Lincoln times., 1945-04-09

| HAVE some transplanted tomato
plants for sale, Marglobes. John
W. Saline, Vale, Rt. 2, just above j..
M. Beams lumber plant. 4-5-2t
The Lincoln times., 1945-04-09

FOR SALE-Deering binder. or will
trade for moving machine or disc
harrow. Mason Beal, Lincolnton,
Route 3. 4-5-2t*
The Lincoln times., 1945-04-09

FOR SALE-60 acre farm, one and
one half miles from Boyer City on
Buffalo Shoals road. Will H. Huss,
Lincolnton, Route 3. 2t-4-9t
The Lincoln times., 1945-04-09

SPECIAL: This week only, MahOg-
any Desk or Secretary Chairs.
Regular Price S9.95. Our Special
Price $685. each. Conner Furniture
Co. Phone $50. 1927
The Lincoln times., 1945-04-09

NEW RECORDS this week, Hillbilly.
Bob Wills, Roy Acuff and Texas
Jim; Rum and Coca Cola by Abe
Lyman; Boogie Woogie, by John
son Ammons. Saunders Furniture
and Radio Store, Robinson Build
ing on Court Squire. 4-9-1t
The Lincoln times., 1945-04-09

PORCH ROCKERS, Strong and stur-
dy with high and low lacks. Just
the thing to make your porch a
comfortable and welcome place
these Spring and Summer days.
Prices 1895 Up. Conner Furniture
Co. Phone $50. 1927
The Lincoln times., 1945-04-09

WANTED-Singer Sewing Machine,
must be in good condition. Phone
372-W. 3-26-4t*
The Lincoln times., 1945-04-09
FOR WATKINS PRODUCTS =

FOR WATKINS PRODUCTS = In
secticides, Crylight insect dust, fly
sprays, favorings, and complete
line household products. Premiums
given if you trade with me. See l..
V. Finger, Maiden, N. c., Box 225,
Or mail your order in and will
make delivery. Statesmen wanted
for western part of Lincoln coun-
ty. Write me. 3-1-3m
The Lincoln times., 1945-04-09

CLASSIC ALBUMS and records by
Lawrence Tibbet, Gladys Swarth-
out, Marek Weber, Tschaikowsky,
Strauss, Brahms, and Andre Kos
telanetz. Saunders Furniture and
Radio Store, Robinson Building, on
Court Square. 4-9-1t
The Lincoln times., 1945-04-09

LOST OR STOLEN-Nurses' Elgir
gold wrist watch, with red second
hand, and black band with gold
clasp. Reward. Call 459 or 1898.
3t-3-29*
The Lincoln times., 1945-04-09

WANTED-Girl for full time office
work. Write qualifications, expert
ence, ETC., to "Office Girl" Box 50,
Lincolnton, N. c. 3-26-4t
The Lincoln times., 1945-04-09

FOR SALE-FOrdsOn tractor and
plow. Good condition. Leroy Park
er, Vale, Route 3, near George
MulPS store. 3t-4-5*
The Lincoln times., 1945-04-09

WANTED-Model A Fords. High
cash price paid. J. E. Heavier, at
Rhodes & Corriher barn. 3-25-tf
The Lincoln times., 1945-04-09

Address: Sgt. Howard l.. Summit,
Assn 3459S912, 272nd Base Unit (SS)
Sqdn. D. TAAF. Topeka, Kansas.
The Lincoln times., 1945-04-09

LOST OR STRAYED-One pig,
black, with white spot on the
shoulder. Reward. CASTOR Free
man, Boyer City, N c. 3-26-2tT
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-04-16
Invite Motorists

The John S. Grace Memorial bridge, bet
ter known as the Cooper River bridge, at
Charleston is to be toll free on and after June
line to Florida via the Coastal highway with
cut bridge toll anywhere en- route.
This will increase traffic on the Coastal
highway, certainly.
AS Wilmington is on this north-south route,
some additional thousands of automobiles will
is again possible without wartime restrictions.
Wilmington will want to see to it that they
do not roll on.
Wilmington will miss a great opportuni-
ty if it fails to induce fair percentage of
them to stop-not merely to fill the gas tank
but long enough to visit the beaches, to get
acquainted with the people, learn something
of Wilmington's history and possibilities for
new commercial and industrial enterprises,
its port, its schools churches. Greenfield park,
floral beauties, climate, and friendliness.
It can be done. The need Is to start plan
ming for it now, not only by advertising Will
mington and the beach resorts In regions where
Coastal highway traffic will originate, but by
offering accommodations and welcome COM
parable with those provided say, in Florida
resorts which have nothing intrinsically bet
ter to offer but have exploited their assets
with exceptional efficiency.
Here is something our city planners ought
to put near the top of their postwar program
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-04-16
Norway's Plight

The people Of occupied Norway and Den
mark must have found comfort in President
Roosevelt's assurance, in a message marking
the nth anniversary Of their countries in
vasion, that the day Of liberation is near.
But 1t would not be surprising If that feel
ing were over-shadowed by the more immedi-
ate emotions Of impotence and anxiety.
1t is evident now that the Nazi, like the
rat becomes more vicious the more tightly he
Is cornered. Norway especially fears Nazi ven
geance, as was evident in her recent urgent
appeal to Sweden to come into the war and
rescue Norway from the invader.
There Is strong possibility, Norweg;ans
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-04-16
The Literary Guidepost

it a tug, now wondering why it
chooses to turn in this direction
or that.
The Scene is in and near Chicago.
The Lymie's first visit to the
Latham home, his trip to the GENE.
terry with his father and events in
classrooms are perhaps the best
realized passages.
The time is back at the end of
World War I, so that a middle
aged reader has the feeling that
he's looking back on his own
youth. Time is important to Max
well, as if he were a true Bergson-
ian, like Marcel Proust and Joyce
and Stein. He keeps extending the
implications if his story into the
past and the future. Lymie's father
remains youth in a derby. LYME,
too lille he grows older, will be I'M
able to growout of some of the
things which happen to him, such
as the high-school fraternity ini-
tiation. Prof. Severance as boy of
was separated once in a store
from his mother, and the sales
woman tried to comfort him, but
a child lost goes on crying, right
down to the end Of time"
This is a novel to null over.
Though it is not uniformly sue
cessful, it gets hold of you and
won't let 80.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-04-16
Jan Prisoners At Work

The Signal Corps has distributed to news
papers photograph of extraordinary interest
1t shows Japanese work crew marching un-
der guard through street in Manila. The New
York Times captions it: Japanese prisoners
of war off to work at clearing debris and rub
BILE they caused when their forces blasted and
burned vast sections of the Philippine capital"
American forces in the Philippines. nor
any place else in the Pacific war arena, are
not taking many Japanese prisoners. The
japanese do, not surrender or give up like
civilized soldiers when they cannot fight on.
They prefer to die. Most Of them who meet our
troops do. But here is one group OF captives
being made to pay for the wanton destruction
of property Maybe there are other groups
doing likewise elsewhere. Assuredly It is Just
punishment for their war crimes.
If any complaint is possible 1t Is only that
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-04-16
Your War; With Ernie Pyle

room for roads and vast supply
dumps and anchorages for ships.
And the civilians from whom we
had expected trouble are docile
and harmless.
The way Americans can build,
this island can be transformed in
two morths. Before long it could
look like Guam or Pearl Harbor.
We are in Japan's back door and
while we are here they can't
really 10 very much to us.
Of course, Japan's vast land
armies are still almost intact. But
if it does come to the great mass
land warfare of continental Europe,
we now are able to build up
strength for that warfare. right on
the scene.
There is a fighting spirit among
us. People are conjecturing about
the possibility of the Pacific war
ending sooner than we had ever
allowed ourselves to think.
For years it looked endless, but
now you hear people talk about
being home maybe by Christmas.
Some really believe they will.
Others have their fingers crossed,
but they are more hopeful than ever
before.
Instead of war WEAKNESS,
there seems to be new eagerness
among OUR forces to sweep on and
on, and wind the thing up in a
hurry.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-04-16
Another French Revolution?

Lily Pons the opera diva, and her hus.
band, Andre Kostelanetz, orchestra conductor
are back in New York after 80 000-mile trip
through the war zones, having given sixty.
three concerts. 1t is said they are the only en-
tertainers who have visited the European and
China Burma-Inda theaters of operation on one
continuous trip.
Miss Pons says she foresees a revolution
in France if the starving millions there do not
quickly obtain food which, by her account, is
diverted to the black market. 1.-THE rich peo-
pie 60 to the black market and the others 90
to beg"
She puts the blame for it all on French
collabora tors who, with their German associ.
stes, have been growing fabulously rich while
the common people starve. Furthermore, she
adds there is resentment. throughout Europe
over the treatment of German prisoners Of
war, who are getting better treatment thar
''they deserve
The substance of her revelations has beer
confirmed by other sources. But until German
resistance is broken it is not clear what car
be done to stop it, except in the case of Ger
man prisoners who deserve no coddling
They should be made to suffer the pangs
Of hunger without conjunction, as long as any
Of the peoples of Europe whom the Nazis en-
slaved and robbed are starving.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-04-16

The crippled Jap air force can
not do us anything but spasmodic
harm from now on. And their navy
needn't ever be considered. If you
could see the colossal naval power
we have here you could hardly
believe your eyes. It's one of the
most impressive things I've seen in
this war.
We have plenty OF troops in
reserve, and new conveys OF
supplies have already begun to
arrive just as we finished unload
ing the original massive supply
fleet.
On Okinawa the majority of the
Japs are en- the southern tip, and
i n considerable strength. T e
northern area is being combed and
few scattered ones mopped up.
There is tough fighting in the
south and it will remain tough to
the end. I've heard some officers
say the south end Of Okinawa may
turn into another Two lima. That
will mean heavy casualties on our
side, but the end of Okinawa is
inevitable.
And while the Army's 24th Corps
of Infantry is doing that JOB, the
rest of the island apparently is wide
open TO-. us to develop and we are
doing it with our usual speed.
This island has everything we
could want in such an island. There
is plenty of room for more airfislds.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-04-16
BY w. G. ROGERS
''The Folded Leaf" by william
Maxwell (Harper; $3.50

NdAWCA NAAoA PCA, P~'OVJ.
Tennyson's line about the fold
ed leaf wood from out the bud''
furnishes the title for this unusual
novel.
Two boys, LYME Peters and
Spud Latham, get acquainted as the
book opens and grow into a fast
friendship through high school
and college, where the story leaves
them. LYME is the intelligent one,
retrospective and sensitive, and
Spud in many respects his opposite.
What Spud feels toward LYME
is summed up in this: 1.-THE near.
est to an enemy that he could find
was LYME, who was also his only
friend. LYME was the enemy to the
extent that Spud, who fell in love
with Sally, was jealous OF him.
The readers interest mounts
steadily to a climax which has
been subtly prepared. Little Incl
dents, mainly of a domestic cast,
really form the body Of the story,
and are treated reflectively,
might almost say casually, in a
sort Of take.it-or-leave-it manner.
Maxwell seems to be leading his
story along; he sort of walks be-
side it, now coaxing, now giving
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-04-16
Another Mark for Red Cross

Red Cross workers have performed many
tasks since this war started mostly in the
line of duty but some above and beyond it.
Among the latter we have heard Of no action
comparable with that of the girls operating
a clubmobile in the First Armys field of oper-
ations.
They delivered six German captives to
MP's in charge of prisoner of war enclosure.
"We have an officer, too" they boosted.
When an enemy group surrendered, it
seems, the captors did not have room for them
all and asked the girls if they'd like few.
Accepting, the girls took batch aboard, stow
ing them in the vehicle with the doughnut
making equipment.
The driver remarked to the surprised
MPs: II drove over that bumpy road as fast
as I could, because wanted to give those
Germans the ride of their life" Also, we may
suppose, she did not intend to give them a
chance to jump out
If the incident means what we take it to
mean it proves with complete satisfaction that
the Red Cross is equal to any and all emer-
gencies More power to it.
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feel, that the Germans may wreck Norway S
factories hydro-electric plants, dock facilities,
ships, and other industrial assets.
At the moment there seems little that the
conquering but hard fighting Allied armies can
do. It is pity that the Swedish government
on, as Turkey did
The Swedish people have long shown
that their sympathies are overwhelmingly
anti-Nazi Freed by their government, they
might well be glad to translate their syrnpa-
thies into telling blow for freedom and for
the future prosperity of Sweden's long suffer
ing Scandinavian neighbors.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-04-16
A Refresher Course

Nearly 80 years after the Constitution Of
the United States was written and submitted
to the states, Thomas Jefferson wrote: "Some
men look at constitutions with sanctimonious
reverence, and deem them like the Ark Of the
Covenant-too sacred to be touched. They
ascribe to the men of the preceding age a
wisdom more than human j."
That reverence which Jefferson noted has
grown through the years. Today we are in
clined to be forgetfu1 of the Constitutions early
history and of the amendments which we have
ton is great and impregnable today, we some
times talk as if it had been conceived in har-
mony and born in triumphant strength and
full-blown perfection.
So We should be vigilant against demand
ing the same impossible perfection of the
document that will issue from the San Fran
cisco Conference. And perhaps it will increase
that vigilance if we review little further some
Of the circumstances of the CONSTITUTIONS
birth.
The structure of free representative gov
eminent explicit in its final form was the
fruit of expediency as well as idealism. Small
er states, bucking control by New York, Penn
sylvania and Virginia, the Big Three-and how
modern that sounds-won such compromise
victories as proportional representation in the
House and the popular vote for presidential
electors by threatening to walk out of the Con-
vention.
The Constitution was presented to the peo-
pie with considerable fear. Some Of the dele
gates went home before the job was done
Three who remained refused to sign the docu-
ment. Others were reluctant. Elbridge Gerry
thought that it would provoke civil war. JET
ferson, in Europe was astonished that 1t con-
tanned no guarantee Of basic human rights.
At first the Constitution found its support
among the rich, and it's opposition from the
poor and handful of rich, visionary cham
pions Of democracy. The series of Federalst
papers by Hamilton, Madison and Jay helped
greatly in swinging popular opinion. But even
so, Rhode Island, which had refused to send
delegates to the convention, waited three years
before ratifying the Constitution.
The point is that the Constitution has
grown more democratic, stronger and more
effective with the passing years. Today, thanks
to the Bill of Rights and subsequent amend
ments, it stands before the world as a para
gon of political right and wisdom however
short we may fall of fulfilling its letter and
spirit.
The moral Of this short refresher course
is obvious. The San Francisco Conference also
sailing an uncharted course. is bound to pro-
duce an imperfect plan. BY refusing it we
should have nothing to take its place. BY ac-
cepting and amending and improving it we
can look with confidence toward world in
which men may live out their lives in peace.