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Price, B. Dianne Rodney, Nancy
Schafer, Charlotte Sharp, Judy
Slaughter. Gary Blevins. Oscar
David, Ralph Knots, Gary Law
renee, James Miller, David Pass
more, Dennis Potter, Barry Pritch-
ard, Lee Severson, Kenneth Smith,
Sidney Smith, Billy White.
Grade 81, Mrs. Matthews, teach
er-Constance Bush, Thelma Ever
EFT, Shirley Fortner. Frances Lii
berto, Virginia Travis, Earl Cole,
Paul Hawkins, Martin Kaneka.
Walter Moore, Thomas Schmidt,
Wilson Spence, Eugene Startt,
David Todd, James Walls.
Grade 80, Mrs. Slaughter, teach
er-Bobby Boyer, Hesten Bratton,
James Council, Estle Dixon, George
Jackson, Bobby Mitchell, Joseph
Myers, Tommy Pappas, George
Shane, Kenneth Shane, Billy Short,
James Slacum, Bobby Slower, jam
es Steller, Roger Stradley, Kathryn
David, Diane Dixon, Carol Ann
Downes, Nancy Ewing, Barbara
Faulkner, Carol Gordon, Clara Ann
Jones, Sandra Kruchen, Kay Nc
Lana Reed, Lynne Selby,
Mary Emma Smith, Joan Stevens.
Grade 2-1, Mrs. Ricards, teacher
II. Jones Carrow, John w. Sher-
riman, Norman Davis, Jeffrey
Deamer, Brandon Jones, Frank
Lawrence, John Pappas, Robert
Pritchard, Lee Slaughter, David
Urian, Janice Lane, Joan N. Niles,
Barbara ]. Ross, Judith P. Street.
Grade 2-2, Mrs. King, teacher
Grace Bratton, Carol Lee Burris,
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lin, Pamela Gibe, Betty Burd, Joan
Loose, Barbara McVey, Sandra
Poore, Clementine Pratt, Doris
Smith, Richard Blevins, Malcolm
Bogart, Earl Francis, Karl Geb-
hart, George Hyatt, Paul Janeka
John Poore, Henry T. Price, Rodney
Shane.
Grade I'll, Mr.. Galley, teacher
Edwin Alfree, Ronald Burris, Dan
iel Caldwell, Robert David, Larry
George, Robert Heating, John
Scott, Barbara DeLauder, Beronics
Dixon, Nancy Everett, Margaret
Jacobs, Ruth Ann Jones, Rose
Marie Knots, Kay O'Connor, Ann
Shaw, Gertrude Steller.
Grade 7-2, Miss Cornelius, teach
er-Diane Davis, Barbara Deamer
Elizabeth Faulkner, Joyce Gardner
Barbara Hahn, Patricia Hogan,
Joanne Mills, Louise Mills, Ruth
Moore, Shirley Morris, Sandra Rob-
inson, Joan Slower, Patsy Smith,
John Barnes, Kenneth Boyer, Bur
ton Melvin, Edward Pearcy, Jackie
Short, John Urian.
Grade 7-S, Miss Rupert, teacher
Larry Bailey, Patricia Barnes,
William Bullock, Freddy Bush,
Preston Cahall, Patricia Lowman,
Gail Lurty, Richard Nelson, George
Wilson, Mary Jane White.
Grade 6-1, Miss Matthews, teach
er-Mary Joan Attix, Suzanne
Kemp, Joyce Locates, Dorothy
Montgomery, Judith Passmore,
Jean Shane, Joyce Shane, Christine
Sharp, Laura Clacum Marie Tay-
lor, Melvin Gardner, Kenneth Gray,
William Hill, Roger Kelsey, Ronald
Potter, David Price, Richard Reed,
Bruce Wright.
Grade 6-2, Mrs. Smith, teacher
Robert Alfree, Robert Attix, James
Bailey, Marylettie Brown, Charles
Burris, William Carter, Beverly
David, jeanette Fortner, Joe Hag-
gerty, Stephen Hankins, Carolyn
Hawkins, Joe Jefferson, Frances
Knotts, Raymond Moore, Kenneth
Poore, Zane Robinson, Clifton
Shane, Virginia Spence, William
Stokesbury, Alice Teat.
Grade 81, Miss Scout, teacher
Balbara Akin, Janet Christopher,
Sue David, Cynthia Deamer, Jeanne
Faulkner, Sara Johnson, Juda May
nard, Doris Ann Moore, Charlotte
Pearcy Shirley Ross, Doris Slower,
Lois Warren, Doris Wilson, George
Brown, Richard Cole, James Flem-
ing, Ralph Jefferson, Robert Keen,
Frederick Lamb, Sherman Laven-
der, Anthony Liberto, James Per-
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Grade Al, Mrs. Piper, teacher
Carl Davis, Harry Fortner, Billy
Francis. Carl McClements, Howard
Pletsch, Billy Ramsey, Jimmy
Stats, Christine Bratton, Bonnie
Deisem, Ida Kitschik, Emma Lane,
Joyce Pepper, Ann Rogers. Susan
Spence, Carol Wyatt.
Grade Az. Mrs. Cannon, eacher
Patsy Baker, Nancy Boyles. Lame
Janucik, Geraldine Moore, Susan
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singer. Warner Price, William sla-
cum, Bruce Takach, Calvin Will
liams.
Grade So, Mrs. Gee, teacher
Dorothy Burris, Phyllis Gardner,
Russell Brown, Richard David, Earl
Cooley, Larry Hartnett. John Hurd
Jr., Donald Jarman, Franklin Nc
Ginnis, Jr., Robert Moore, Donald
o'Neal. Homer Shorts, Jr.. Donald
Warner.
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ATTENDANCE AT
PUBLIC SCHOOLS
Teachers of Smyrna Schools
Submit Their Honor List
to the Superintendent
HONOR ROLL FOR MONTH

The following students are ol
the perfect attendance honor rol
at the John Bassett Moore Schoo
for the month of October:
Grade IL. Mr. Williams, teachel
Wilson Comegys, w lila n
Doughten, Ebe Joseph, William
Warner, Mary Esther Houtman
Joanne Oechsler, Charlotte o'Neal
Shirley Reynolds, Marie VanPelt
Rosalie Williams.
Grade Ill, Miss Bauer, teacher
Kenneth Attix, Marlyn Attix
Betty Jane Baggs, Brooks Banta
Robert bigger, Richard Comegys
Edna Conley, Joyce Danes, Donald
David, John Doughten, Charles
duff, Walter Eierman, Virginia En-
mis-, Karl Francis, Betty Lou Hess
Theresa Houtman, Roger Hudson
Allene Nowland, Nancy Scott, Bar
bara Wallace.
Grade 11-2, Mrs. MendenhalI
teacher-George Darrell, Katherine
Kish, Nancy Knots, Lois Lasch,
Barbara Lowman, Jane Nuckols,
Shirley Phillips, Jane Pugh, Ray
mond Pusey, Patricia Ryan, Frank
lin Shane, Bevelly Short, Diane
Short, Ruth Tribbitt.
Grade 1O-1, Miss Brown, teacher
Shirley Baker, Josephine Brown,
Janice Carrow, Carolyn Carter,
Denny Cole. Nancy Davis, Pat DAY.
is. Virginia Dudasik, William Flem-
ing, Marie Gardner, Elaine Harris,
Walter Houtman, Richard Keen,
Kesler Kemp, John knight, Helene
Lasch, Judy Otwell, Marguerite
Pratt. Mary Lou Reynolds, James
Roth. Lois Thomas.
Grade 1912, Mrs. McGill, teacher
Margaret Bottomley, Catherine
Calhoon. MARY David, Leroy Ever
ett. Ann Graham, Ruth Kinsey,
Bertha Lane, Shirley Manning,
James Parker, Thomas Simpson,
Edgar Smith, Theresa Smith, JOS
eph Stephens Dorothy Thompson,
Marjorie Virdin, Barbara Walker,
Doris Wood.
Grade 9-1, Mrs. Getty, teacher
Barry Attix, Hal Bodley, Preston
Carey. Charles Cox, Carl Dahn,
Donald Dulin, Jim Haas, Albert
Krupka, Robert Reed, Edwin Rob
inson, Ronald Stevens, Steve SzeI-
estei. Bill Virdin, Philip Voshell,
Veronica Burke, Dorothy Conner,
Joan Funk, Caroline Patton, Marie
Rehak, Cleo Rogers, Elberta Simp-
son.
Grade 90, Mr.. Williams, teacher
Edgar Cox, John Fortner, Jack
Spencer, Hazel Holland, Gertrude
Langowski, Julia Mabrey, Mary
Ann Norman, Florence Peterson,
Nancy Pinder.
Grade 9-3, Miss Reed, teacher
Charlotte Boyer, Johanna Erskine,
Mary Ann Jarman, Marian Mac
larry. Carolyn Marsh, Virginia Nc
Claim, Claonia McNatt, Doris
Moore. Marguerite Pearcy, Gay
Scott, Joan Shorts, Barbara Shortt,
Linda Spence, Barbara Stats, Bet
ty Jane Still.
Grade 81, Mrs. Smack, teacher
Donald Ebright, Kendall Hudson,
Samuel Jacobs, Bart Luff, Kenneth
Maynard, Rodney Reynolds, Ed
ward Wheeler, Clarence White,
Barbara Graham, Isabelle Martz,
Ellen Peters. Ruth Reynolds, Mary
Ann Scotten, Barbara Ann Short.
Grade 80. Mrs. Pryor, teacher
Kay Bulger. Ruth Carey, Beverly
Garter. Florence Conley, Betty Du-
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BuiId-Up Stage

The pain will be great, because
the time is short America cannot
afford to delay arming itself to
level of defensive safety until it has
built a fine new industrial plant to
produce the needed armament. On
the other hand, it cannot afford to
delay building the additional indus
trial capacity with which it can
maintain its new armed strength
and expand it rapidly if world
war should actually come.
Economies can stand short-run
strains that would break them in
the long pull Therefore, America
has set itself the goal of producing,
as quickly as possible and simulta-
neously, both the armament it
needs Immediately and the added
industrial plant it will need as time
goes by. The time period involved
in this great, initial build-up effort
is estimated at about two years,
assuming all goes well.
What is the armament America
needs right now? Is it the giant
force we would need if Russia were
to strike-something, perhaps, on
the order of 10 million men under
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drowned the Axis under a flood of
weapons. This time, the prepara-
lions will have been made, and the
men in the Kremlin will know that
we are ready to shift into high gear
overnight, if the need arises.
We will not be in a belligerent
posture-the armed force we are
actually holding in readiness will
not be of a size which would permit
us to wage aggressive war. Nor will
our military establishment be the
kind of burden that cannot be sup
ported in peacetime by a free
enterprise democracy. Supporting it
will not break u.s. Ours will not be,
as was Hitler's army in 1889, vast
war machine that had to be used
before it grew rusty and obsolete.
1t will be something new in history
living disproof of the old saw that
you can do everything with bay
onets except sit on them For ours,
though exceedingly sharp, will be a
sheathed bayonet-and one we can
afford.
For behind our armed forces will
be an industrial plant which not
only can sustain them and provide
a springboard from which they can
leap to full power if the need arises
but which also can support our
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for the maintenance of this force
at the highest peak of efficiency,
equipped with the most modern of
weapons.
Bringing armament of this nature
into being is no mean task, but it
is we'll on the road to accomplish
ment. 1t costs heavily in tax dol
lars and in materials that would
otherwise be put to civilian uses.
So does the other part of our cur
rent job.
Expansion of the Nations indus
trial base is not just a matter of
building factories. 1t involves, first
of all, expanding production of the
primary staples of our economy
steel, for instance; copper, alumni
mum and transport. We are out,
in this tWo-year period, to boost our
production of steel from the cur
rent level of about lot million tons
year to about 100 million tons. In
1910, the figure was about 80 million
tons. We produced 100000 tons of
aluminium in 1910 and 715,000 tons
last year. We are out to double
that second figure. This is the kind
of expansion that is involved, in
the build-up stage, for our economy.
We must have an expansion Of
this sort. For, in order to accom-
plish our build-up aim, we are
going to have to take from one
third to one-half of the economic
staples which normally would
supply our civilian economy, and
use them to build the additional
military and industrial power we
need
It is going to be expensive. In
this build-up period, in which we
are asked to lift ourselves quickly
to safety, we will have to pay heavi-
ly in the materials that go into
the life we are accustomed to liv-
ing. The price will be high in
dollars, too. Precise estimates are
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Maintenance Stuoe

When America has provided it.
self with the armed force which
may reasonably be expected to
deter the enemy-and when it has,
in addition, a reserve of industrial
power that can maintain this
armed force and permit it to ex-
pand rapidly in case of attack
then our long-range effort to save
ourselves will have reached the
maintenance stage.
There is no assurance. that this
stage ever will be reached. Russia
may decide to attack before we
secure the goal. She may still at
tack after we have reached it. But
once we have reached it, if we reach
it, the chances of the Kremlin's
precipitating an all-out war should
be greatly lessened. Even in this
interim, build-up period, every step
we. take toward the maintenance
stage goal presumably decreases the
likelihood that Russia will choose
to take us on.
For when we have reached our
plateau of preparedness, we will be
very formidable adversary indeed.
Our industrial capacity will be about
double what it was in 1910. With
out advance preparation, in the last
war, that lesser capacity expanded
so far and fast that we literally
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Admiral FechteIer New Navy Chief Salty He Is Tough

of the fleet, like the battleship used
to be, and he (Admiral Fechteler)
knows it," said the Secretary, who
has just taken Office himself.
Mr.. Kimball sees Admiral Fech-
teller as a good working fellow on
a team" But, in addition to the
airmen, there is one other group
that may have doubts as to how
easy he will be to work with. There
have been some rumblings that the
ReservistS do not cotton we'll to the
appointment.
No Use for Gripping
Admiral Fechteler's remarks on
the subject of the wartime gripeS
of the ReserveS-Some legitimate
and some not so legitimate-Will
not help soothe whatever ruff1ed
feelings there may be in that quar-
ter The Reserves made up some
80 per cent of the wartime Navy
Some of them felt strongly about
what they thought was unfairness
in the treatment of Reserves as
against Regulars.
Admiral Fechteler CATS such talk
"Subversive."
During the rehabilitation period
there were attempts by certain ele-
mentS to create discord between
men and officers by talk of the
caste system and between officers
of the Regular Navy and Reserves"
he says. MANY honest people we're
sucked in by this subversive talk
But the Reserves have known say
it was grossly exaggerated"
Admiral Fechteler is voracious
newspaper reader. On the other
hand, he does not seem to be overly
fond of reporters. He is not easily
euff1ed.
He has twinkling eyes and a
gray pompadour. He is left
handed. While at the Naval Acad-
envy, he played fair game of
tennis. Now he plays golf occa-
sionally, but his game will not
stack up too we'll with the near
professional talents of some of the
Pentagon brass. He likes poker,
swimming, bourbon and branch
water-and family life.
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of airpower that brought about his
dismissal as operations chief. An
other interservice fight, this one
over Air Force expansion at the
expense of the Army and Navy, may
be in the offing. Admiral Fechteler,
by his background and experience,
belongs definitely among the sur
face crowd One air admiral who
is high UP the Navy ladder says
"he was not always thought of as
being on our side all the time"
Other comments have not been
nearly so mild as that.
The new chief may have had this
sort of criticism in mind at his first
news conference at Norfolk Thurs
day.
A Navy without a topflight air
arm, he asserted, lis totally made
quate to do the job the Navy has
today?
Secretary of the Navy Dan A.
Kimball also jumped into the act
with the assertion that Admiral
Fechteler had always been for car
riers. 1.-THE carrier is the backbone
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A number OF contrasts could be
made between the new Chief of
Naval Operations, Admiral William
Morrow Fechteler, and his prede-
cessor, the late Admiral Forrest P.
Sherman.
But perhaps the sharpest of those
contrasts will be found in the gen.
eral demeanor of the two four-star
flag officers who held the rank of
captain at the beginning of World
War II.
Admiral Sherman, whose keen
mind had rapidly brought him to
the top of the Pentagon hierarchy
and who was destined without
question to be the next chairman
of the Joint Chiefs of Staff-always
appeared to be shy Since the
Korean war, he had steered away
from social contacts. He had few
close friends in the Navy.
But Admiral Fechteler-who, in
cidentally, was one of the two men
Admiral Sherman had recon-
mended as his successor-is gre
garious, hearty and informal. He
makes friends easily. His language,
especially at sea, is often salty.
Eagle Eye, Shorp Tongue
The new Navy chief wears his
cap at a rakish angle. He has
never been known to hide his light
under bushel. The Naval Acad-
emy's 1915 yearbook, "The Lucky
Bag" said of him that he "keepS
an eagle eye on the affairs of the
whole world, and his criticism is
uniformly sharp"
The admiral is a thorough work.
er. In 1924 he was ordered to the
Asiatic Squadron, as executive Off
Ger of the Isabel The Navy was
employing Chinese workers aboard
the ship, while in port, and the
commanding officer got wind that
the laborers were smuggling opium
aboard. 1t. Fechteler was ordered
to find it immediately.
The search went on for days
without success. The young officer
kept hunting. He finally located
the opium under an officers mat
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tress, where the unhappy Chinese
worker had hidden it in the vain
hope that officers quarters would
never be touched.
There is something little Prus-
sian about the admiraps bearing,
and that is only natural. His IA
Their, the late Rear Admiral Au-
gustus F. Fechteler, as punctilious
a man as ever served the sea arm,
was born in Prussia. But his
mother, the former Miss Maud
Morrow, daughter of a California
Federal judge, seems to have had
the situation we'll in hand. The son
can employ the methods of a PruS-
sian major when the occasion
arises, but they are not his normal
stock in trade.
Admiral Fechteler was born
March 6, 1896, at San Rafael, Calf.
He attended Western High School
here, and in 1912 President Taft
appointed him to the Naval Acad-
envy.
There he impressed the midship-
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into the business of making life
more worth living, materially
speaking, than it has ever been
before.
Stated in its most general terms,
that is the long-range program
we have set ourselveS-a program
of permanent safety through
growth. Industrial power, however,
does not just grow, as children do.
1t grows by feeding on itself. 1t
takes part of itself to build more.
And so the growth which offers the
hope of safety necessarily is pain
full process, particularly since it
must be rapid. America now is
just beginning to feel the pain.
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arms? This idea has been rejected.
The planners believe trying to
maintain a force of this size would
be our undoing. The strain of the
wartime economy that would 60
along with such program could
not be borne permanently, under
our system. If it did not break us
outright, it could, conceivably, force
us into the war we are trying to
avoid, in search of relief from the
burden we would be carrying.
Deterrent Force
The idea, then, is to provide our
selves Immediately with a smaller
force than the one we would need
to win a war against Russia-but
big enough, in the opinion of the
military experts, to discourage Rus
s'a from attacking. Estimates of
the composition of such force are,
of course, subject to constant re-
vision. as opinions change regarding
the intentions of the potential
enemy.
The adequacy of some of the cur
rent targets, indeed, already is being
debated But the program, as it
now stands, calls for armed forces
of at least 35 million men, equipped
with what they need to make them
the most effective fighting organ
ization the world has ever seen.
1t calls for guns, tanks, ammuni-
ton and all that goes into the
making of "a full, ready-to-go
combat divisions. eve now have
49, 1t calls for the development
of an Air Force of 95 air wings.
eve now have 3D. 1t calls for an
active Navy of more than LOO
ships and a Fleet Marine Force of
% divisions (about what we now
have) both equipped with necessary
aircraft and supporting units,
Beyond all this, the program
calls, of course, for superiority in
the atomic field. Above all, it calls
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DRESIDENT TRUMAN spoke in
l. Detroit last week about the
Nations defense effort. eve have
a goal" he said, land that is peace.
We have a way to reach that goal
and that is the middle way between
world war on the one side and
surrender to communism on the
other"
What is this middle way? What
is it that our leaders really are
trying to do, in mobilizing America
for the challenge we are facing?
There is, to be sure, grand design
to the planning that is going on in
Washington today. In its details,
which have been fed to the public
in dribS and drabS, it is almost
wholly incomprehensible - partly
because the details still are far
from settled It's broad outline,
however, can be understood by
school child. That it should be
understood in this way-that Amer
leans as a whole should have firm
hold on the idea of the task ahead
of them-is as important as any
thing in the world. The fact is
they have not been given any such
understanding.
Today the administration finds it.
self fighting a desperate battle to
convince the Nation that, whatever
happens in Korea, we must not and
cannot let up in the long-range
task we have set ourselves. The
battle would be a lot less desperate,
and the chances of success a great
deal greater, If better job had
been done in explaining what this
task is that we have set ourselves
and what the high resolve from
which we cannot afford to let down.
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By John A. Giles

BY John A. Giles
men with his thorough knowledge
of the Navy, extending from the
tonnage of dreadnaughts to mi
mute personal details. The practice
cruises were parties for him.
Black Shoe Chieftoin
He was not among the class
aviators, nor has he become one in
later years. In fact, his experience
has been in virtually every type of
Warship-eXcept aircraft carriers
and the submarines.
There has, of course, been a con-
tinual struggle within the Navy in
recent years between the BLACK
shoe" or surface elements on the
one hand, and the naval aviation
advocates on the other.
Admiral Sherman was an avia-
tor. Admiral Denfeld, though not
one, was regarded favorably by the
aviators; indeed, it was his testi-
mony before the House Armed
Services Committee on the subject