PAGE FOUR
LOOKING \T
WASHINGTON
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German and Italian prospects are
with possible victory.
Tlie big economic problem be
fore the nation is the balancing of
income between various population
groups in order to facilitate the ex
change of goods and services. The
farm portion of the economic order
has not been receiving its share of
the national income and inevitably,
this produces complications that
lead to depressions. From the farms
of the nation come the buying
power that makes industry hum and
it is essential to the continued pros
perity of the people of this coun
try that farmers manage to secure
a reasonable profit from their ope
rations. The tariff, which holds up
the prices of manufactured goods
is offset, to some extent, by govern
mental benefits lo farmers under
the AAA programs. That perfect
equality has not yet resulted is ap
parent and further steps to this end
are certain.
There is every indication that the
rearmament program of the United j
folates will proceed along sune and (
found lines, without being mixed j
up any "pump-priming" purpose
and without extravagant expendi
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i tures to over-emphasise any particu
| lar defense unit. It is estimated
that some three or four hundred mil
lion dollars, in addition to last
year's billion dollars, will be neces
i sary in the next fiscal year, but
this, it is thought can be secured
* without increasing total cxpendi-
I tures over this year. Tho improve
ment of business conditions, with
consequent lessening of unemploy-i
ment, may make possible smaller
1 relief expenditures to offset increas
ed defense costs. i
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f LITTLE JOHNNY BRIGHT 1
. HAD A THEME TO WRITE
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(By Sam I.nnkle)
I Little Johnny Bright.v. had a theme
to write
And tho subject he selected was
I Duke,
And how the election was won on
a fluke.
>
, So the composition of his theme
' was a digression similar to this.
''Duke University has the best team
jin the state. They are called the
| Blue, Devils, but they are not that
bad unless you get them angered up
Ia bit. And if they win on January
will be proud of their product. It's
j a constellation of honored men, ani
let honor go where honor is due. J
■ And product number 2 is the Ah-,
I sentee Ballot. It differs from Duke
in that it is not a credit to tho|
state but a discredit, due to its can-!
cerous infection that is spreading'
like an epidemic, all over the country,
even to Californy and Maine, for
some that have gone that far away
cannot get rid of it after these'
twenty years. It's a parasite of the
worst kind and its victims are tho
county officers that have been so
bndly afflicted they droop their
tails like my dog when I give him a!
piece of tainted meat. He takes itj
because i* smells loud, though hp j
is ashamed to eat it in my presence. |
He just sneaks off to bury it in the'
fresh, clean earth, that eradicates 1
some of the germs, then he eats it
by himself because lie is ashamed j
of the odor that emanates therefrom.
And that's the way this parasite
affects them that use it to ge in
offiee. They droop and pine and are!
dijected in spirit, ashamed of itajj
manipulations that give credence toi
such protest from righteous and I
decent people. But don't infect dogs[
in any way unless their names hap
pen to appear on the poll book.
It is claimed that many folks are
I having to vote that away because
something similar. They call them
tliey have tularemia , joke leg or
WPA wofkers, and we have seen (
them snooping around some project' ;
THE ROCKY MOUNT HERALD. ROCKY MOUNT. NORTH CAROLINA
where they had a sign up of some
kind. Suppose it was a warning for
respectable folks to stay away, like
; 'hey put up when there's rabies and
■ smallpox around.
; Now what would you give Johnny
I Bright fo r a theme like this? May
■ lie 100 or may be zero. It might dc
• pend on the kind of a teacher he
i had.
■ i But its a warning that decent
■ folks should heed, and according to
. the doctors orders, wash their hands
I in hot water and soap to prevent its
j spreading.
But to Duke, we hail them as a
t healthy, lively bunch, a product of
1 i great stati> and to them we would
: say in Teddy's immortal words,
: ''Don't flinch, don't foul, but hit
, the line hard.''
j \
ELEVEN BEF«» MAKE
UP UNIQUE FAMILY
All for one, and one for all.
That old axiom fits so well it
could have been coined for tho It
Bees—one of the most unique farm
families in the country.
There are seven Bee boys an.l
four Bee girls. None has ever mar
-1 ried.
They live and work together on a
135-acre farm near Lebanon, 111.,
I where they have resided in their
1 own humble way for 37 years. They
farm an additional 200 rented acres,
i The brothers, Chnrles, 60; Albert,
i 47; Joe, 44; Emil, 42; Kdward, 52;
! George, 40, and Xavier, 54, live in a j
two-room dormitory on the second
floor of their two-story house. The
sisters are Hilda, 37; Lizzie, 56;
I Frieda, 39, and Fmilia, 42. Emil and
Emilia are twins. I
There is little evidence of plan-l
ning on the Bee farm, No one par-1
ticular Bee is superintendent or
I manager.
j Joe is recognized as the best live
| stock man among them. Charles, the
j oldest brother, does most of tho
[ carpentering. Emil is he machinist
and electrician and all-around re
i pair man.
! The sisters go methodically at
their household tasks. It is method
! rather than plan that they follow,
although Lizzie, the eldest, exercises
a sort of leadership around the
house,
The women look after the 800
chickens and 30 turkeys. And the
men admit these pay the food bill
and sometimes a little more.
The sisters make all their own
clothing and their brother's shirts
—they just completed a batch of 40.
The Bees pay little attention to
the social life of the community, yet
they are highly respected by their
neighbors.
Now that winter is near they are
| taking it easy. They sleep morning \
as late as 5:30, take their time at
the chores and quit work at early
dark. During plowing and harvest
ing time, however, they put in "A
full day."
But whether it is the busy season
or a slack time, none of the Bees
are charged with the duty of rising
first in the morning and calling the
others. They rise and face the day
as they work through the day-—by
habits of agreement that are not
dependent upon direction.
The Bee farm is truly a farm co
operative. They have everything in
common purse. No accounts are
kept. Any member of the family
who needs or wants something goes
to the family cashbox and takes out
what is required. They despise
credit and time payment systems.
They have a bank account against
which any brother or sister can
check.
The only exceptions to tho com
mi n fund arc wages earned by any
of the brothers on outside work.
Each one keeps that forhimself and
does what he pleases with it. Three
have bought private automobiles —
the others depend upon the single
family machine.
When it comes to polities, the Bees
are Republicans, but they take little
I intjrest in politics,
j This sometimes causes the local
i politicians to fret —because their 11
j votes are tho balance of power in
I the Cho*taw school district.
| When asked why none of them
| ever married they just smile and
'say: "It suits us this way. Why
j change it and take a chance."
I
Deaths and Births
Decrease In Nov.
' Raleigh—There was a decrease in
1 both births and deaths in North
' Carolina in November, 1938, accord
| ing to figures just released for pub
j lication by the State Board of
j Health's Division of Vital Statis
tics, of which Dr. R. T. Stimpsou
is tho Director. Last month, 2,462
North Carolinians died, as compared
with 2,762 in November, 1937, whilo
births last month totaled 6,053, a.l
against 6,423 the corresponding
— ■
! month a year ago.
There was a drop in the number
of deaths of infants under one year
Jof age and in maternal deaths, the
total for the former being 407, «a
compared with 431 a year ago, while
only 24 mothers died last month, as
compared with 44 a year ago—a
sharp decline.
Deaths from preventable accidents
dropped from 144 in November, 19-
37, to 121 last month. Fatalities
from automobile accidents reported
to the State Board of Health last
month totaled 81, while the total in
November, 1937, was 96.
Fifteen peoplo died of burns in
November, this year, against 23 last
year, while homicides dropped from
37 to 23, but there wiw one mora
suicide, the 1938 November total be
ing 27, as compared with 26 last
year. A drop of 24 occurred in
cancer deaths, while pneumonia
| deaths were up only 2, but 42 died
, of influenza, as compared with only
j-7 in November, 1937. There wer*
j no other outstanding increases or
I decreases, Dr. Stimpaon's figures
j show.
Hybrid Corn Is Not
Ready For N. C .Use
I North Carolina farmers are advis
ed by Dr. Gordon K. Middleton,
State College agronomist, to wait
I ayear or two before usingg hybrid
corn. Tests carried on for three
years have shown that the hybrid
corn seed imported from other
states is not well adapted to condi
tions in this state and it is there
fore necessary that adapted varie
ties be developed.
To meet this condition. Dr. Mid
dleton and Dr. Paul H. Harvey, as
sociate agronomist, are conducting
greenhouse experiments of inbreed
ing and field tests to check yields.
In this way they will be able, pos
sibly Tiy 1940, to recommend hybrid
corn whieh will meet expectations
under North Carolina conditions.
Yield teats were conducted during
the past summer at the Mountain
Branch Experiment Station at Swan
nanoa, at the Upper Coastal Plain
Stotion near Rocky Mount, and on
the Whitley-Davis Farm at Clayton.
In summing up the results of these
tests, D. Middleton says:
"At Swannanoa only one com
mercial variety and one experimental
hybrid outyielded the best local va
riety, and that by less than six per
cent. In the tests at Clayton and
Rocky Mount, with very few excep
tions hybrid brought in from a dis
tance showed lack of adaptation
They were mostlysta'cliy and very
light in weight.
"At Rocky Mount four hybrids
equalled o r exceeded the best local
variety, the best of which was b/
approximately 17 percent, while at
Clayton orily one exceeded the best
local variety, which was by 12 per
cent. In each case thoae hybrids
which outyielded local varieties were
from experiment station sources
rather than from commercial com
panies.
"The 1938 results do not warrant
the recommending of any commerci
al hybrid at this time, but it is
possible recoirfmendations can be
made for farm trials in a small way
in 1940."
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the New Year
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WILL CLOSE JANUARY 6
CROP CONTEST ENTRIES
i
I Dr. J. B. Cotner, professor of farm
I crops at State College and director
of the eropa judging contest for
4-II Club members and Vocational
agriculture .students to he held in
connection with the annual meeting
of the North Carolina Crop Im
provement Association at Rocky
Mount, has announced that registra
tion of teams for the contest must
be filed with him on or before Jan
uary 6, 1939.
The .judging contest for youths
will be a feature of the final day's
program of the association meet.in!"
•ind seed enpfsition .January 23-25.
The contest will begin at 9 o'clock
Wednesday inujrning, January 25,
J or t"nms within 75 miles of Rocky
Mount, and at 11 o'clock for other
teams.
\ The Crop Improvement Associa
| tion's meeting Will begin Monday
| evening, January 23, with an exe
cutive session of the board of direc
ors. Judging of seed exhibts is
scheduled for 9 o'clock Tuesday
morning, January 24, after which
talks will be made by the -mayor of I
Rocky Mount; S. T. Henry, presi-j
dent of the Association; Dr. Coi
ner; I>r. G. K. Hiddleton, Dr. Paul
fl. Harvey, W. H. Chapman and
Prof. M. E. Gardner, all of State
College. The annual banquet of the
association will be held Tuesday
night at 6:30 o'clock.
Speeches will be made at the Wed
nesday morning meeting by E. G.
Moss and J. F. Bullock, of the Ox-1
for dTobacco Station; L. T. Weeks,'
assistant tobacco specialist of the!
State College Extension Service; P.
THE OLD FARMER
TALKS TO HIS MULE
(Clipped)
"Well, lightning, you're just i
mule, and the son of a jackass, and
I'm a man and made in the imaga
of God. But here we work, hitched
up together year in and year out—
and I often wonder if you work for •
me or I work fo r you. Maybe it's ]
a partnership. Anyway, I work as' l
hard as you do plowing or cultivat- j 
ing; we cover the same distance, ]
but I do it on two legs and you]'
do it on four, so I do twice as 
much work per leg as you do. Soon !
we'll be putting in our corn crop. J
When we harvest the corn, 111 give ''
one-third to the landlord and one- i.
third to you, and the balance is J
mine. You eat all of yours but the '
cob. I have to divide mine with my •
wife and seven children and six !
hogs and sixty hens and two ducks J
and a bantam rooster and a bank- •
er. If you and I both need shoes, •
you get 'em. Yes, Sir, Lightning,
you're getting the best of me. I '
ask you now, is it fair for a mule, •
the son of a jackass, to swindle a •
man, the Lord of creation, the most '
intelligent of all animals? You on- •
ly help me plow and cultivate, and .
t must cut, shock, and husk the '
corn while you heehaw at .me over j
the pasture fence. All year the •
whole family has to help from gran- ,
dad down to the J>aby to scratch \
enough money together to pay the •
taxes and the interest on the inort- i
gage on you. And what do you caro j Jj
about mortgages! You ornery old j
critter, I ever have to worry about ■!
the mortgage on your tough, un-j^
| grateful hide! Altout the only time'
I've got anything on you ia on elec-
I tion ,day—tf can vote and you can't. |
But after election day 'I realize
right hway I've been as big a jack
ass as ever your papa was. And then
I begin to wonder if politics was
made for men or for jackasses—or
just to make jackasses out of men.
Honest, now Lightning, when you
know all these things, how can you
keep a straight face and look so
dumb and innocent t"
i
70 PER CENT
Flue-cured tobacco gruwers havu
been allotted 754,000,0W pounds ot
loaf under the 1939 AAA program,
says E. Y. Floyd, AAA executive
officer at State Colleiji North Cai
olina will receive approximately 70
' per cent of this amount if more
than two-thirds of the growers
throughout the flue-cured area vo'e
in favor of quotas on December 10.
i Preliminary figures of the Bureau
of Census show tiie United State*
to have a population now of
000.-
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S I ISO 1 S WITH SINCEREi
G|) GOOD WISHES
- YOUR HAPPINESI
f 1938 :T ON THIS JOYOUS
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