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THE MARION PROGRESS
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ASSOCIATION '
A GIFT TO THE GIVER
Through the Christmas Seal, men and wo
men in all walks of life have participated in
the campaign to eradicate tuberculosis in the
United States, have helped bring about an 80
per cent' reduction in the tuberculosis death
rate since the early part of the century.
In terms of human life, this lowering of the |
death rate represents a saving of 4,000,000
lives—lives of people who would have died
of tuberculosis if the TB death rate of 1907, j
when the first Christmas Seals were sold in
this country, had continued to prevail. Many,
factors are involved in this lowering of the
death rate, but undoubtedly the people them-1
selves have made an outstanding contribution
through their support of their local tubercu
losis association and its program to prevent
the spread of tuberculosis, financed entirely
by the sale of Christmas Seals. j
We cannbt, however, afford to rest on our
laurels,. Progress has been made but there is
much more work to be done before tubercu
losis ceases to threaten the health of our peo
ple. Tuberculosis still takes the lives of some
53,000 Americans a year. It is still the first
disease cause of death in the age group be
tween 15 and 44.
We cannot call off the battle against tuber
culosis until complete victory is ours. For our
own protection, and for the protection of our
children, we must continue to support the
campaign against tuberculosis. We must con
tinue to buy Christmas Seals. j
Actually, when we buy Christmas Seals we
are^jiying^ourseIv£gL a gift—a gift in healthy
protection.
PREDICTS RECESSION
The present "serious" inflation will lead to
a business slump in the United States "within
the next few years," declares Chester Bowles,
former Price Administrator. The prediction is
cushioned with the view that the slump "will
not be fatal" or "disastrous" but like that of
1920-21 rather than that of 1929. j
Mr. Bowles believes that prices in many in
dustries are set upon an unrealistic basis and
that a heavy proportion of the products soldi
today would make more money if they werej
sold at a lower price. He urges business and thej
Government to get together to arrange for the!
continued growth of healthy capitalism and de-1
clared that such a development would bring a
.shift in foreign policy that would create a long!
peace.
Mr. Bowles thinks that full production plus
full employment will insure sufficient purchas-,
ing power to take care of all the goods that thej
nation can produce. He thinks that there should
be a carefully planned and timed system of
public works to keep the heavy goods industries
rolling year in and year out and that the Gov
ernment should take steps to guarantee the con
struction of 1,300,000 homes each year.
Taking cognizance of the approaching ses-|
sion of Congress, Mr. Bowles says that specific
measures can be taken to cushion any recession, i
but he remains doubtful that anything will be!
done in view of the forth-coming presidential
election year. I
CARRIES 700 SOLDIERS
The giant $25,000,000 plywood transport;
plane, recently given its first and preliminary
test by Howard Hughes, is described as "the
largest airplane ever built."
Some idea of its size may be gained from the
wingspread, which is slightly longer than a
football field, and a tall empennage which i
stands off the water as high as an eight-story
house. The theoretical capacity of the plane is
500 passengers or 700 troops.
I
Alcohol and motor vehicles make a danger
ous combination but unless juries are ready to
convict those who drive while intoxicated there
is no remedy in sight.
The business world is jammed with execu
tives who know how to run the businesses that:
belong to others.
ORGANIZATIONS INEFFECTIVE
Representatives of some fifty reorganized
national Security Committee for the purpose of
providing militant backing for legislation to
provide for universal military service.
Former Associate Justice Owens T. Roberts
will be chairman of the group which, we pre
sume, will concentrate upon giving the public
the facts upon which there exists a demand
for universal miliatry service.
We are a little apathetic to the various or
ganizations formed in the United States to pro
mote legislation. While many of them, like the
one mentioned above, are supposed to repre
sent organizations, the weakness in the setup is
that, very often, the top part of the organiza
tions represented do not, in fact, have much in
fluence over their members.
The only effective way to promote universal
military service, which we think is an absolute
necessity for the safety and security of the
United States in the present unsettled world, is
to advance arguments that appeal to the rank
and file of the American public. It will be ne
cessary to meet and answer the arguments of
misguided idealists, who will prate about peace
and the ways to get it, and also dissipate the
opinion, widely held in the United States, that
we can live in the world by ourselves without
danger of attack.
Master of His Fate
How great is man?
Captain of his soul and master of his fate, he
is the lord of all he surveys, or so he thinks.
He defies the law of gravitation and makes
ships of steel and aluminum fly through the air
at speeds greater than sound.
He splits the atom and creates a force of un
dreamed power for good or evil.
He builds great dams, irrigates the desert
and makes it bloom. J
He constructs a 200-inch telescope with
which he can peer past the Milky Way and
scratch out the secrets of the firmament.
He soars above the clouds, sprinkles a little
dry ice around and makes the rain fall.
He can drill for miles into the bowels of the
garth and bring up oil and natural gas.
He sends mysterous pulsations through the
sther which carry his voice around the earth.
He constructs cunning machines to, do his
work and some that can even do his thinking
like the great calculators that work out mathe
matical problems with incredible speed and un
canny accuracy.
He can send out rays that see in the dark,
and others that see in the far distance and come
b&clc J^tellJiini what is there.
All these things arid many more man can do.
But he can't change the path of a tornado,
he can't stop a flood, an earthquake or a tidal
wave. He can't even stop a forest fire.
The Florida and New England disasters once
more illustrate man's helplessness when con-:
fronted with the forces of nature. Deplorable
as they are, perhaps we need such occasional
visitations of adversity, to instill in us a spirit
of humility and to make us realize that, with
all our vaunted accomplishments, we are but
small cogs in this vast Creation—that there is a
Higher Power which orders all things.—States
ville Landmark.
MARSHALL STATES THE ISSUE
There is little reason to doubt the accu
racy of the statement made by Secretary of
State George C. Marshall, who warns Ameri
cans that the plight of Europe involves "the
danger of the actual disappearance of the char
acteristics of Western civilization."
General Marshall says that the very foun
dations" are at stake in the political and econo
mic fight now underway in Europe. He insists
that American aid to Europe will not suffice
and urges the people of the sixteen Western
European countries to work harder, produce
more and pull out of their economic plight.
Secretary Marshall insists that the basic is
sue is simply "whether or not men are to be left
free to organize their social, political and eco
nomic existence in accordance with their de
sires" or whether dictatorships "by small
groups of men" take over the power to regu
late and control the lives of all other people. It
is an issue, he says, "old as recorded history"
but today "has assumed more menacing pro
portions than ever before."
The advertisements that one reads are the
advertisements that sell goods and the adver
tisement seen by the most people is the one
that is read the most. Need we suggest more?
The Philippines may be free and independ
ent but like some children, who reach twenty
one, they still look to their Uncle Sam for finan
cial help.
Your local paper is the only medium that
tells the world when you were born, wishes you
good luck when you get married and hopes you
go to Heaven when you die.
The citizen who has no appreciation of the
beautiful in life hasn't been properly educated.
OUR DEMOCRACY- byM.t
The United States Marine Corps
a \U\ n> FOUNDED NOV 10,1775 „ LII„
DEDICATED
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LOYALTY
jj to country
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SELF-RELIANCE
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These qualities - traditional in tlie
Marine Corps—are recognised
tkrougkout our land as American
ckaracteristics tkat make our nation
strong among, nations —keep us,
as a people, always alert and united.
Looking Backward
From The Progress Files
This is the fifth in a series of
articles regarding the history
of McDowell county, as prepar
ed by G. C. Bird and published
in June, 1912 in The Progress.
"The Legislature of 1842 met
with W. W. Avery, Tod R. Caldwell
and Samuel J. Neal representing
the county of Burke. On the 26th
day of November, 1842, Hon. W. W.
Avery introduced into the House of
Representatives the following bill,
to-wit:
" 'An act to lay off and estab
lish a County by the name of Mc
Dowell.
" 'Section 1. Be it enacted by the
General Assembly of the State of
North Carolina, and it is hereby en
acted by the authority of the same.
That all that portion of the counties
of Rutherford and Burke, beginning
at a point two miles south of Ruther
ford and Burke, beginning at a point
two miles south of the corner of
Burke and Rutherford, in said line;
from a direct course to Cove Creek,
at a point two miles south of John
Bradley's; thence to and with the
dividing ridge between Rock House
Creek and Stony Creek, crossing se
cond Broad River at the mouth of
Rock House Creek; thence a direct
course to the Burke line, at or near
Conway's Knob; thence with the
Burke and Rutherford line to a point
on the South Mountain, two and one
half miles east of Cane's Creek;
thence a direct line crossing the top
of Pilot Mountain to the mouth of
Shedrick's Creek; thence a direct
course to the top of Linville Moun
tain, two and one half miles east of
Cane's Creek; thence a direct line
crossing the top of Pilot Mountain
to the mouth of Shedrick's Creek;
thence a direct course to the top of
Linville Mountain, and with the said
mountain to the Yancey line; thence
with the Yancey line, to the bun
combe line, and with said line to
the beginning; be, and the same is
hereby created into a separate and
distinct county by the name of Mc
Dowell.' "
"This Act was ratified and be
comes a law on the 19th day of
December, 1842.
"Mr. R. D. W. Conner, Secre
tary of the North Carolina His
torical Commission, says that Mc
Dowell county was named in hon
or of Joseph McDowell, of Quak
er Meadows. In this he is support
ed by Dr. Battle and Mrs. Spencer.
But, 1 must respectfully insist that
he is mistaken, and contend that
the honor was bestowed upon Col.
Joseph McDowell, of Pleasant
Gardens.
"The latter lived in this county,
was a man of wealth, a physician of
large practice, a distinguished offi
cer in the Revolutionary war, and
'possessed the brightest intellect of
any of the connection,' and it would
seem that the eye of the General As
sembly would most naturally turn
to him when it was proposed to name
a county, the county where he lived
and died and the county he had serv
ed so well and faithfully, in honor
of any one bearing his name. I am
well aware that the descendants of
. the two distinguished men of the
same name have always disagreed a
bout the part which each took in the
great war for Independence; and, it
is by no means clear to the impartial
investigator which particular Joseph
McDowell was entitled to the hon
or=.
"The trouble seems to have arisen
hv 3" "-"discriminate use of the title
COLONEL. Both seem to have been
of the same rank, although the Jo
seph of P]pqsant Oardens is said, by
one historian, to have been a CAP
T4TN.
"He was 8 years older than his dis
tinguished cousin of Quaker Mead
ows. the latter beino1 only twentv
four years of ae-e when the battle
of King's Mountain was fought, and
being a man of more mature years
and experience, it does not seem
probable that so young a man would
rank above him. The proofs sub- j
mitted by Draper in his "Kings
Mountain and Its Heroes" is by no j
, means convincing.
! "Returnine to the naming of the
i county of McDowell, Wheeler pub- j
jlished his "History of North Caro
lina" onlv nine years after the coun
ty of McDowell had been created,
and he must have interviewed mem
bers of the Legislature in regard to
'a trailsgr+ion pn v,ar-ent He says that
the county of McDowell was named
in honor of Col. Joseph McDowell,
of Pleasant Gardens. To my mind,
this authority is indisputable. In
Howerton's North Carolina Manual, .
published in 1874. the honor is ac
credited to Joseph McDowell, of
Pleasant Gardens, where, in my
humble opinion, it properly belongs.
"The county seat of McDowell,
Marion, was named in hanor of
Gen. Franci* Marion, the "Swamp
Fox," of South Carolina. Juit how j
it was named, I am unable to as
j certain. There is no Legislative j
sanction to the name, so far as I
have been able to Hnd, until it
was chartered in 1846."
| (To be continued)
ON THE MOVE
Of the 122,633,000 civilians over
seven years of age, last April,
. 25,469,000, or 20.8 per cent, mov
ed' out of their original county in
the period between April, 1940 and
April, 1947. Of the "migrants,"'
12,288,000, or almost half, moved"
from one state to another. The Cen
sus Bureau said the wax and the
| reconversion era were responsible
for one of the "moving aroundest"'
periods in American history,
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WAR COST 57 NATIONS
15,000,000 MISSING AND
DEAD, SAYS MARSHALL
Chocago, Nov. 3—The 57 bellig
erents on both sides in World War
II lost more than 15,000,000 men in
killed and missing, Secretary of
State George C. Marshall said to
day in a recapitulation of casualti
es.
The wartime cT.ief of staff's re
port was released by the Encyclo
pedia Britannica as part of an ar
ticle he has written for its forth
coming four-volume history of the
war decade, 1937 through 1946.
The report did not include the
losses of small nations such as Pol
and or the Balkan states.
Marshall said that Russia suffer
ed the greatest manpower losses,
7,500,000 men and women killed or
missing, or one for every 22 per
sons in the nation's 1940 population.
Germany suffered the worst a -
mong the Axis nations. She lost
2,850,000 killed or missing, one in
every 25 of the 1940 population.
Japan, from the beginning of the
so-called "Shanghai incident" in
1'937, lost 1,506,000 persons or one
in every 46 of the 1940 population
in the home islands.
Other losses in battle deaths and
missing personnel were:
United States—295,904, or one
in every 500 of the 1940 population;
United Kingdom—305,770, or one
in eveny 150 of the population;
British Commonwealth of Nations
—452,570, or 0.08 per cent of the
empire's population, and France—
2,00,000, or one in every 200 of its
1940 population.
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS
The undersigned^, having qualified!
as Administrator of the Estate of
Baylis W. Harrison, deceased, late
of McDowell County, North Caro
lina, this is to notify all persons hav
ing claims against the estate of said
decedent to exhibit them to the un
dersigned at Harrisons Drug Store
in Marion, N. C., on or before the
7th day of November, 1948, or this
notice will be pleaded in bar of
their recovery. All persons indebted!
to said estate will please make im
mediate payment.
This 30th day of October, .1947_
F. RAY FRISKY,
Administrator of Baylis W.
Harrison, deceased.
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