The piece recognized that many small businesses were being smothered in OPA red tape and were tired of it, wanted it to end, such that NAM's publicity campaign reached them where they lived.

But as demonstrated by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce president Eric Johnston's statement, that ending OPA would leave America in the doghouse and cause ruinous inflation, there was plenty of dissent within the business community to the advocacy of ending price controls.

Davison's Department Store in Atlanta, Macon, and Augusta had taken out full-page ads in support of continuing price controls, following the lead of its parent company, Macy's of New York.

NAM was a loose organization of businesses and thus the half-million dollar ad campaign the organization was running was not necessarily the voice of all of its members, though none had spoken out against the position.

Most consumers supported OPA while business appeared divided, suggestive of a majority of the country being in favor of retaining it. The Congress, it offers, should pay attention to that common weal, not the rumblings they heard from the outer lobby in Washington.

North Carolina had 400,000 veterans of World War II and more on the way. Most had returned to their old lives before the service, but many were having to begin afresh as their old jobs had disappeared or no longer seemed desirable.

The VA made funds available ro guarantee income during apprenticeship periods but the VA could not find the jobs for the men or force employers to implement training. With disabled veterans, however, the VA did locate the jobs which suited the individual veteran's capabilities, a difficult task as prejudices still existed against the handicapped, that they would prove a burden to employers.

In North Carolina, the VA had placed 704 disabled veterans in on-the-job training programs, but 746 others were still looking for work. Another 24,000 veterans drawing disability pensions were also potential job seekers in the state.

It states that the disabled veteran was entitled to the understanding and sympathy of his country, but understanding and sympathy were not enough. He needed a job to assure self-respect, and most businesses had the jobs he could perform.

The Department of Labor had done a study which found that disabled veterans performed work more efficiently than those employees without disabilities.

A Charlotte businessman, E. A. Terrell, had taken the lead in organizing a voluntary committee of civic club representatives to insure that every week would be as Veterans' Opportunity Week. The piece concludes that it could think of no worthier cause.

Mr. Browder had been invited to Moscow, inviting the inference that the Kremlin wished to instruct him on how to purge the American Communist Party of its current leaders and get back to the former principles for which Mr. Browder had stood.

When the Russian consul held a soiree for one of the three visiting Russian editors, at the Plaza Hotel, no member of the staff of The Daily Worker had been invited.

Smarting from the double snub, The Worker had published an editorial accusing The New York Times of participation in a conspiracy to have Americans think of the American Communist Party as taking orders from the Kremlin by the fact of the Times having printed on the front page the story of Mr. Browder's departure for Moscow.

"It was one of the most nervous performances we can remember, and it left us convinced that America's Communists have taken to peering under their beds to see if there's a Morgan partner lurking there."

The only professions to which it raised objection as unfit for service in the Legislature were newspaper editors, publishers, and preachers.

The French were upset that in the British zone in Germany coal from the Ruhr was going primarily to Germans. The Germans were receiving substantially more coal than France and the French wondered why their production should be impeded while German industry was being restored.

The British suffered from severe coal shortages, with domestic mines far behind the times.

Coal, he concludes, was the key to recovery in Western Europe and the most notable coal contribution would be from the United States, held up by the actions of John L. Lewis.

The Peninsula Enterprise stated: "The outside must look well whether the inside develops or not."

On Delmarva Peninsula in Delaware, the Pennsylvania Railroad advertised for three million railroad ties, taking over the woods. The grain shortage hit chicken raisers.

One farmer found that America must be having trouble abroad or they would not still be drafting men. He thought the strikes ought end and workers treated as if the country were still in war.

A former soldier repairing a Ford motor in the sun along the coast on the road to Manteo told Mr. Grafton that the country was "going damn fool" and that he was going back into the Army despite having been in for five years. He could not find any fun in civilian life. There was no food available; people were getting arrested for killing a cow to share the meat with their neighbors.

He was generally discontented, was just as worrisome as high school girls cutting class to get a wave.

"And one cuts down the narrow highway to Roanoke Island, and Manteo, where one can be with the channel bass, and away from the world."

A letter responds to the Roosevelt haters and newspapers who wished to impose term limits on the presidency. She advocates leaving the matter up to the people and expresses her sorrow for the Roosevelt haters, as FDR had left the country a plan for the future, which would chart the way for the world, and had also brought victory in the war.