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Crime Climbs

J. Edgar Hoover, Director, Federal Blu.
reau of Investigation, reports that crime
increased Is per cent in the first months
of this year as against the same period
last year. This is the highest rate of in
crease of crime in the United States since
1880 when national figures on the extent
of crime were first compiled.
The survey reflects increases in rob-
berries of 31.8 per cent, murders 28.5 per
cent, manslaughter by negligence 1872 per
cent, burglary II per cent, auto theft 1875
per cent, aggravated assault 10 per cent,
larceny 98 per cent and rape 1.6 per cent.
While Is per cent increase in crime
was recorded on a nationwide basis, crime
in rural areas increased 1916 per cent. Rural
crime increased 48.4 per cent for robbery,
343 per cent for auto theft, 1913 per cent
for aggravated assault, 22.9 per cent for
negligent manslaughter, 2O.9 per cent for
murder, 17.9 per cent for burglary, 13 per
cent for larceny, and 8.3 per cent for rape.
In the first months of 1915 crime in
creased 84 per cent over the same period
in 1914 and the increase in the first part
of 1915 gathered momentum until at the
end of last year crime had increased 1874
per cent over 1914.
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Producing From The Land

The butchers, the bakers, the local mer-
chants, the farmers, the dairies the cream
cries, and in fact the whole catalogue of
producers, retailers and wholesalers, have
been doing "the best they can" to supply
food to Mr. and Mrs. John Q. Public and
their kiddies With Chester Bowles now
devoting himself to party politics in Con-
necticut instead of OPA-ing the breakfast
dinner and supper tables of the Nation,
there is reason to expect bettereating lust
around the corner"
Uncle Sam has issued very important
statement about general crop prospects
through the Department of Agriculture to
let the people of our broad land know that
the land is doing full duty in producing an
all-time record volume of crops. The larg-
est wheat crop in history is practically
harvested The 1916 corn crop will still
top all others in spite of adverse weather
that reduced the estimated production by
125 million bushels since August l. Pros
poets also declined for other late crops
such as soybeans, sorghums, cotton and
peanuts. In contrast, gains were shown
by tobacco and rice in Southern areas
where growing conditions generally i'm
proved and by small grains, flaxseed and
potatoes, in Northern areas, where harvest
ing conditions were almost ideal. These
changing prospects lowered the indicated
aggregate production about 1 per cent be-
low that of August l. But the estimated
volume is still 2 per cent above the pre-
,vious peak attained in 1912 and 26 per cent
larger than the 1882 average.
Pears are added to the list OF record
crops. Still at record levels were corn,
wheat, tobacco, peaches, plums, and truck
crops. Among the near-record crops, oats,
rice and potatoes moved up closer to the
record. Average or better crops OF hay,
soybeans, dry peas, prunes, apricots, and
sugar beets are still in prospect with slight
changes from a month ago.
Cotton, rye, sorghum grain, flaxseed,
buckwheat, dry beans, sweet potatoes, and
pecans are below average levels.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1946-09-26
How Many Children Finish
High School?

The public schools in North Carolina
and throughout the United States are free
to all. In this State as in most of the
others, attendance is compulsory until the
child is sixteen. Considering this, most
people would assume that large majority
of children in this State and nation finish
high school.
According to the last U. S. Census only
one out of three young people 20 to "a
years of age had completed high school.
Why is this number so low? One reason
is that some children have SO little interest
in school that they leave it as soon as pos
Sible.
Parents should begin when the child
is very young to instill in him the neces-
sity of attending school, its Importance to
his future and to the future of the state
and nation. Teachers too can do much to
increase this interest. There are different
ways of arousing the interest of different
children. But if child is sufficiently in
terested in school he will make a special
effort to be there rather than to try to find
a reason for stopping. Let's keep the chill
dren in school,
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VETERANS MAY GET
HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMA

CONTINUED from Page y
Instruction and the North Caro-
lima College Conference have
adopted a plan for admission of
these and other veterans to col
lege by examination. This exam
nation will be given at colleges.
This testing program will include
a psychological test, an English
test, a mathematics test and a
reading test. A diploma granted
in this manner will be accorded
equal status with the diploma
granted in the usual way.
Veterans may contact the prin-
cipals of high schools or super
intendent of schools for informa-
ton on taking tests and other adj
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S||ZII|Nd|lN!]

Washington. - Elliott Roose-
velt's new book, now running Sc
rally in a national magazine, has
set official Washington, partic-
ularly the state department, back
on it's heels.
The younger Roosevelt who ac-
companied his father, the late
President Franklin D. Roosevelt
to Yalta, Teheran, and his other
important conferences during the
war, presents new picture of
possibly why Russia is obstre-
porous in the place conference
and in the councils of United
Nations. He quotes the late presi-
dent as having said to him at
Casablanca:
I'm talking about another war,
Elliott. I'm talking about what
will happen to our world if after
this war we allow millions of
people to slide back into semi
slavery. Don't think for min
ute that Americans would be dy
ing in the Pacific tonight if it
hadn't been for the shortsighted
greed of the French and the
British and the Dutch This
time I've tried to make it clear
to Winston (ChurchilD that while
we're their allies, they must
never get the idea we're in this
war just to help them hang on
to medieval empire ideas. I hope
they realize, after we're won,
that we're not going to sit by
and watch their system stultify
the growth of every country in
Asia and half of Europe"
And it makes Washington Won
der if this conception of our forei-
gn policy held by the late presi-
dent, is our present foreign poll
cy.
President Truman has decided
definitely there will not be a
special session of congress. He
says that members of the con-
gress deserve time for their cleo
ton campaign and moreover
there is no reason facing the ma
ton now for a special session.
So the president apparently be-
lieves that inflationary tenden-
cies are not dangerous to the ma
tons economy; that new OPA
price control legislation is suf-
ficient for the time being; that
the recent losses in the stock mar
ket in Wall street do not present
any nationwide crisis; that the
housing situation does not con-
sititute an emergency, and that
the country can weather what
ever comes between now and
time for the new congress to con-
vence next January.
J Claude R. Wickard, rual cleo
trification administrator and for
mer Secretary of Agriculture,
who, by the way has moved his
office lock, stock and barrel back
to Washington from st. Louis,
declared that the need for electri-
city on farms is greater than in
city homes and that failure to re-
alize this fact is one of the rea-
sons why private electric utilities
have failed or refused to serve
rural communities.
'The farm is a factory and
1,ico RI Veterans on completion OF
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in the country. These districts
are directed by their own far
mer boards. But we are still los
ing about a half million acres Of
land year and this damage has
been costing us about 4 billion
dollors annually, and nearly a
billion acres of farm and ranch
land need complete, planned con-
servation treatment.
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CALHOUN RITES TO
BE HELD FRIDAY

Continued from Page ~
ing brothers and sisters: Mrs. Eff
fie Greer, of Lansing; Mrs. c. G.
Robinson, of Clifton; Edgar and
Ellsworth Barr, of Apple Grove;
Edison Barr, of Kingsport, Tenn;
Erwin Barr, of Roanoke, Va; and
R. c. Thompson, of Lansing.
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SPARTA STILL LEADS
BASEBALL LEAGUE
CONTINUED from Page ~

Continued from Page II
ferson; Pond Mountain at Laurel
Springs; Roans Creek at Sparta.
Sunday-Lansing at Nathan's
Creek; Laurel Springs at Scott
vile; Sparta at Pond Mountain;
West jefferson at Roans Creek.
The standings of the teams as
handed in to the office on Tues
day are as follows:
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ANNUAL FEEDER CALF
SALE WILL BE HELD
Continued from Page -

be helpful for All boys and girls
interested in calves to attend, as
they can see how the calves are
graded.
No cross breeds or scrub calves
should be entered in this sale, it
was stated.
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War Against Communism

By their service in war, veterans proved
their faith in Americanism. They fought
and many of them died to support the idea
that Americanism, thing difficult to de-
fine but precious in this free land, connotes
a form of government superior to any
thing we know.
The Americanism which veterans
fought to preserve carries over into their
peace time life. 1t is to be found, for in
stance, as vigorous program in The Amer
lean Legion, largest of all veterans or
CARNATIONS. Paradoxically, the strongest
criticisms ever leveled at The American
Legion, have been launched because that
organization has opposed Communism.
Those who criticize the veterans for
their organized opposition to Communism
should read series of articles written by
Brooks Atkinson, staff writer for The New
York Times, upon his return to this coun-
try from Moscow. Mr.: Atlznson's articles
are timely just now when the attention of
Communism, as an theology, is developing
speedily in countries such as France, Italy,
the Balkans, Cuba, Chile, and China. This
alarming spread of Communism is suffi-
GENTLY strong to indicate that it really is
political weapon for World revolution
MIR. Atkinson's articles are written with
full consideration for the part the Soviet
Government had in the defeat of Germany,
Italy, and Japan. With clarity he makes
a distinction between the Russian people
and their government. Her people he
classifies as Admirable people genuine,
Woodworking and practical" Further he
says "you can trust their strength, native
intelligence and courage"
Mr.. Atkinson has different idea of the
Russian Government which he says stands
between us and their people. He Identifies
it as totalitarian government, whose "fa
miliar dictatorship of the proletariat is
actually the dictatorship of the thirteen
members of the Politburo of the Commun-
list party"
In these articles the writer recalls that
the Soviet dictatorship "was created in an
underworld of planning, strategy, secrecy
and violence" Too much of the technique
of the revolution carries over into their
governmental operations today with the re-
suit that the Politburo is incapable of &C
cepting the friendship of a country such
as the United States on any basis common
to the Western World.
In the concluding article the relations
of our Nation with the Soviet administra-
ton are discussed. whether we like it or
not, we are competitors for influence on
the rest of the World" he writes MARX
ism is ultimately program for the whole
World. We may as we'll keep the whole
thing in perspective by looking at the fu-
ture with their point of view in mind"
With The American Legion let us agree
that the Russian people deserve credit for
their magnificent campaign to overthrow
Hitlerism But also with The American
Legion let us agree that it is unwise for
us to substitute Communism for Hitlerism.
We have everything to lose by permitting
the spread of Communism here.
H1Solo
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needs electricity for efficient pro-
duction in the same sence as a
modern city factory" Wickard
says. Wickard also declared that
no REA cooperative should be
satisfied with anything less than
power source, as well as a dis
tribution system, which will sup
ply the ultimate requirements of
every potential consumer in the
area it plans to serve. In other
words, that it should build power
plants and not be satisfied to buy
electricity from private utility
lines.
High tribute was recently paid
to Hugh H. Bennett, chief of the
soil conservation service, re-
cognized today as dean of the
worlds soil conservationists. And
this recognition recalls the 30
year struggle DR.. Bennett has
made to gain national action on
the soil erosion problems of the
nation. He started back in 1908
in Louisa county, Va, and during
the next quarter of century he
built up confirming evidence in
surveys throughout the country
of the damage to the nations soil
by erosion and by loss of min
erals and water through farming.
In 1929 he presented evidence to
congress which resulted in estab-
liShment of 10 erosion control
experiment stations and four
years later he was selected to
head the country's first soil and
water conservation agency, the
soil erosion service. Since 1885 he
has been chief of the soil con-
servation service, made a per-
manent agency of government
that year. During that time far
mers and ranchers have organic
ed upwards of 1900 soil conserva-
ton districts covering about 900
million acres and 4 million farms,
or tWo-thirds of all the farms
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by the President of the United States
out Of money in the Treasury not other
wise appropriated.
Under the plan for restoration Of
public facilities, the Public Roads Ad-
ministration would have charge Of re-
pairing highways and bridges, the work
to be done in accordance with its usual
contract procedures.
For repair of port and harbor facili-
ties, the Army Engineers are to draw
up the plans. To whatever extent they
may be approved by the President, they
are to be carried out, under the direc-
ton OF the Secretary of War, by con-
tract, so far as possible.
The War Damage Commission, with
in the limits of funds allocated to it by
the President out of the $4,000, 900
appropriation, would compensate the
Philippine government, including pro-
vincial governments and cities, for
damage to public properties. It would
be authorized to call on the Federal
Works Agency or Army Engineers for
assistance in completing its work
Health facilities of the islands would
be surveyed by the United States Public
Health Service, and with funds to be
allocated to it by the President, it
would seek to develop and expand
services essential to the public health,
These projects would absorb the $780,
100000 authorized for rehabilitation of
public properties. Certain subsidiary
programs would be undertaken with
funds to be allocated from time to
time by the President from unexpended
appropriations.
Under this heading the Maritime
Commission is authorized to make
available small vessels for interisland
transportation and for the island fish,
ing industry, at nominal charter fees.
The Civil Aeronautics Administration
is authorized to establish air trans
portation facilities and the Weather
Bureau to set up forecasting stations.
The impression prevails that many
Philippine leaders, recognizing the diff
culties ahead, would prefer to postpone
independence. There have been dis
cussions in the Philippine press about
the desirability of plebiscite on the
question of deferring independence and
there is a possibility that the question
may become an issue in the presidential
election to be held in the islands next
month.
President Sergio Osmena, running for
reelection, is committed to independ-
ence on schedule. His opponent, Manuel
A. Roxas, has not taken stand, but his
campaign is being managed by Jose
Avelino, who is identified with a group
favoring postponement.
In any event, the decision is one for
the Filipinos. They are to obtain in
dependence under the Tydings-McDuf1
Act, enacted in 1894. The official United
States view as expressed by High Com
missioner Paul v. McNutt, is that the
1884 enactment must stand, unless the
Philippine Commonwealth itself asks
for its revision.
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the end and it would lead to loss of
lives. 1t would be impossible to defend.
He has taken an immense step for
ward which will have wide repercussions
in all colonial policies, not only in Indo-
nesia and French Indo-C China, at once,
and in the next generation, in all the
European empires in Africa It is diff
cult to exaggerate the praise Attlee de-
serves for taking big views in big way.
The Prime Minister would, think, be
himself the first to admit that he owes
much to the wise collaboration of 9TH
ers. Much is due to the wisdom and
imagination with which Lord Wavell
has handled the Office of Viceroy since
he was appointed to it. Hardly less is
due to the discernment of Sir Claude
Auchinleck, by all odds the most dis
cerning commander in chief in India
in modern times.
Great credit belongs to the recent
parliamentary delegation which visited
India and was able to transcend all
party views in its instant recognition of
the scale and urgency of the problem.
And any one who reads the debates in
the House of Commons of March Is
will note the verbal unanimity of opin-
ion that the only road now open was
the road to Indian independence.
That this is, in fact, the case, de-
tracts no whit from the credit that is
due to r. A. Butler and his Conserva-
tive colleagues for recognizing that
what was called for was the spirit of
collaboration and goodwill which de-
serves quite special word OF praise.
The stage is set. The curtain is about
to go up on the first scene of the last
act in the Anglo Indian drama. It
would be foolish to pretend that the
final phase will be easy. The magni-
tude of the adjustment called for is
great; the complexity and the mutual
Suspicion of interests which seek a
dominant share of control in Indias
future are greater still; and a skill in
negotiations will be called for In the
Cabinet Committee it is dinacut to
exaggerate.
But, although the discussions will be
long and arduous, am . confirmed
Evening star., 1946-03-24

optimist about their outcome. I be-
lieve in the goodwill to India of Lord
Pethick-Lawrence and Sir Stafford
Cripps. I am confident that Gandhi
and Pandit Nehru, whom I am proud
to call my friends, now that they have
gained the supreme principles for which
they have been fighting half their lives,
will show themselves worthy of the
immense responsibility that has been
placed upon their shoulders.
The atmosphere may, Of itself, per-
suade Junnah and the Moslem League,
DR.. Ambe6kar and the depressed classes,
as well as the Chamber of Princes, that
their minor interests must give way
before the constitutional claims of the
supreme principle Of independence.
If they are too narrow-minded for
that, am certain their support will
waver until they are thrown into the
dustbin Of history. Attlee has re-
stated superbly the great prediction of
Macaulay, now nearly hundred years
old, about Indian destiny. It is for the
Indians to fulfill his high premises.
fcopsrisht. 1916. Overseas News Agency. Inc,
Evening star., 1946-03-24

independence is to be admitted but how
it is to be attained.
Pretty clearly, in the light of what
Mr.. Attlee said, the British Cabinet
Committee has instructions to press for
unified central Indian government
with which the transfer of power can
be negotiated. Pretty clearly, also, with
reference to the interesting expert
ments in constitutional government
undertaken in Travancore, is the gentle
hint to the Indian state to follow that
example if they wish for British SYM
pathy and support in the coming nego-
tiations.
1t was obviously Attlees hope that
the new India would seek for some as
sociation with the British Common
wealth after the attainment of inde-
pendence. But he was careful to note
that this would be matter for India
to decide. In the way Mr.. Attlee an
nounced one of the major revolutions
in British imperial history, he revealed
it as one already accomplished in the
minds of himself and his colleagues.
The fundamental premise is admitted.
The problem now is to secure the trans
formation with all the ease and swift
ness possible. History travels fast in
these days. It hardly seems four years
since the Cripps mission which did not
even suggest independence and put
take it or leave it" terms before India.
And it is hard to remember that less
than year ago, the Labor government
was still limiting at settlement on the
basis Of a renewed Cripps offer.
What has caused that momentous ad-
vance?
Mr.. Attlee himself has given the an
swer. No one, as he told the House of
Commons, can mistake the surging tide
of nationalism with the concomitant
urge to self-government all over the
East: and most Of all, its significance
can be seen, as Attlee said, among the
brave Indian Army which had fought
the battle Of freedom in every theater
OF war all over the world.
He himself has clearly made up his
mind that Canute-like obstinacy to
the sweep Of this tide would be ''un-
pardonable":: 1t would inevitably fall in
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A few months from now, after nearly
half century under the protecting
wing Of the United States, the 16,000, 900
people Of the Philippine Islands are to
achieve the independence they have
long sought. AS the date approaches,
some Of them view the prospect with
mixed emotions.
Certainly they want political inde-
pendence. As certainly they recognize
their economic dependence on the
United States, developed through the
years and sealed by the devastation of
war.
Aimed at meeting the moral obliga-
ton this country has to assure that the
Fflipinos will be able to stand on their
own feet when they gain independence
next Fourth of July, there is pending in
Congress broad program for rehabin-
tation Of the islands and the mainte-
nance of trade relations
A bill to appropriate 100000 to
compensate the Filipinos for war dam
ages, known as Senate bill S. 1910,
passed the Senate December S, 1945, and
is pending in the House. It would also
make available to them up to $50, 900 900
in surplus property which may be in the
islands. Additionally, the bill would
authorize the President to allocate, out
OF Treasury funds not otherwise appro-
priated, unspecified sums for the de-
velopment Of inter-island air and sea
transportation, and the fishing industry
of. the islands. Provision is made also
for training Filipinos in public services
as these projects are carried out.
The trade relations bill H. 51s5, in
troduced in the House by Representa-
tive c. Jasper Bell, Democrat, of Mis-
souri,. would continue for eight years the
duty-free importation Of Philippine
products, subject only to the existing
quota restrictions. Beginning in 1854
tariffs would be imposed gradually.
starting in that year with per cent
of the regular levy. Each year for Is
years the rate would be stepped up an
other 4 per cent, SO that by 1879 the full
tariff would be imposed. The bill is be-
fore the Ways and Means Committee
which is expected soon to act on it.
Provides Orderly Transition.
This arrangement is intended to pro-
vide for an orderly transition from what
has been virtually colonial economy,
relying heavily on duty-free exports to
the United States, to the more diversified
and self-sufiicient economic structure
Of a free people.
Without some steps in the direction
of these measures, independence of the
Philippines would almost certainly be
followed by chaos and revolution. The
war has left the islands financially
bankrupt, physically devastated, and
socially disorganized
1t will be several years before much
sugar can be produced again, and sugar
was a mainstay of the Philippine
economy. The Japanese removed most
OF the heavy machinery in the islands.
Bridges are down, harbor installations
wrecked, power plants and factories
must be rebuilt, and shipping-even