NOVEMBER 19, 1942
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Women From Town
Americans Fij
"Send us reinforcements!"
That's the call 1943 will bring to
urban housewives from farm worn,
en who are holding the line on the
food production front.
During the bard year ahead, one
of every four homemakers must
find her station on the farm, in the
factory or office, according to the
testimony of manpower experts.
And already in thousands of the
nation's villages and cities, farm
women are quietly at work recruiting
town women to help fight the
Battle for Food.
For instance, Hastings, Minn.,
housewives who answered an appeal
from a farm woman for apple pickers,
not only helped to save a good
crop, but are organizing a reserve
labor corps this winter to meet next
year's inevitable farm labor shortage.
Some of them are taking vocational
agriculture classes. Others are
being taught how to operate farm
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Still others are preparing to
work in farm homes to release farm
women for oudoor chores.
Many farmers have been skeptical
about the value of "city women"
on farm jobs. Some are still. But
the ice is cracking.
Take the case of Fred W. Peaslee
of Guidhall, Vt., the lar^st potato
grower in his state. More than half
his pickers this year were local
housewives. They worked in his
fields day after day to save Peaslee's
31,000-bushel crop. One woman
picked up 180 bushels of spuds in
a single day, 1,700, in three weeks.
You try it, mister.
In Kokomo, Ind., tomatoes were
ripening faster than canneries could
handle them. Housewives joined
with men and children to help sort,
BOONE DRUG COMPANY
Boone, N. C.
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peel and can tomatoes. And an hni
portant war crop was saved.
Down South, it's the same story.
Out West, ditto. Throughout the
country housewives have laid a pattern
for doing a job that will be
much bigger in 1943 than it was this
year.
From community to community
the pattern varies. And ui some
places much organization work remains
to be done to meet /next
year's greater crisis. But local offices
of civilian defense, county department
of agriculture war boards,
YWCA's. U. S. employment service
offices, Parent-Teacher associations,
chambers of commerce and other
civic organizations arc facing up to
the job.
It's a big job. To meet all our
farm manpower needs in 1943, we
would have to recruit about 1 & million
more full-time farm workers
than there are in sight, according to
the department of agriculture.
American housewives' efforts to
help fill the gap are blows at Hitinr'e
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HARRISON BAIRD. SR.. AVERY
ATTORNEY. SUCCUMBS
Newland, Nov. 13.?Funeral services
for Harrison Baird, Sr., 76 an
attorney, were held at the Mount
Pleasant cemetery near Hughes in
Avery county. His death followed
several months of ill health.
Surviving are two children. Harrison,
Jr., and Mrs. Mildred Libell;
three brothers, C. B. Baird, Avery
county farm agent; Jimmy and Danny,
and one sister, Mrs. Brown
Hughes.
Mr. Baird was the first county attorney
of Avery county. He practiced
law in the county for many
years.
The services were conducted by
the Rev. Arthur Sanders, Presbyterian
minister of Newland.
LEASE-LEND
More than 552,000,000 pounds of
foodstuffs and other farm commodities
were delivered tor shipment to
the allied nations during September,
40 per cent larger than the previous
month.
Kauri gum, a New Zealand fossilized
resin, is classified as a mineral.
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of fruits, fresh vege.
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(Each week in this space will be presented a picture
and word portrait of someone whose name Is news.)
To James F. Byrnes, former U. S. senator
and Supreme court justice, has fallen the un:
pleasant task of telling you what you must do
gjpff. 3B without and, if possible, making you like it.
TT|TAs director of economic stabilization, tactfiSH
tul. self-effacing "Jimmy" Byrnes* authority
jjHpCtops that of price administrator, I^eon Hen?
dcrson. equals that of Donald M. Nelson,
chairman of the War Production board.
Known as moderately conservative. Byrnes
is not likely to attempt sweeping reforms. His
first job will be to eliminate war profiteering
^ by imposing enormous sacrifices on those who
M expected to get rich.
As a senator. Byrnes voted regularly with
the farm bloc. He voted fo*" the Wagner Labor
Relations act. but against the Wage-Hour
law and sit-down strikes. As a Supreme court
justice he was deliberate, thoughtful, and
usually fairly conservative.
James F. Byrnes
Brazilian Military Attache Decorated
Gen. Amarn Bittcncourt, Brazilian military attache to the U. S.
for the past two years (center) is shown receiving the Legion of Merit
medal from Col. Townsend Heard, appointed by President Roosevelt and
Secretary of War Stimson to make presentation. On the right is Brig.
Gen. Ralnh H. Wanton. an* nf r??? *????? ' ?
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command in Miami Beach, Fla. Biltencourt Is the first to receive this
medal, which was recently authorized by congress. ^
Sun Sets for Kising Sun Bomber
This wing section was the largest single piece remaining of a Jap
bomber after Its bomb load was touched off by a U. S. marine antiaircraft
shell at 20,000 feet, in the Southwest I'acifie. The plane de
integrated in the sky. hits raining down over a wide area.?Soundphn<
.T LEAST 365 SHIPS vessels in all categories have beer
HAVE BEEN LOST BY blasted to the bottom in the Pacific
JAPS IN 11 MONTHS in 11 months of war
The total sinkings approximated
With the announcement of the one and a half million tons.
avy muiia?y nigm uiai .?0 more
apanese ships had been sunk in a An improved design for a bomt
jut of the enemy's fleet in the Sol- fin in mass production will save
mons, Associated Press records enough steel to build two Libert}
lowed that at least 365 Japanese ships.
1|! Over the Top by New Year's Is the 1||
M. Plea of Secretary Morgenthau wL
November 13, 1943
A3 of today twenty-one million American
workers are investing eight per cant of their
salary-every pay day - in United States War Savings
Bonds. This i3 a very remarkable tribute to our
armed forces who are fighting this war. But this
Job is only two-thirds accomplished.
There are nine million additional American
workers who are not investing in War Bonds every
pay day.
This appeal Is directed to two groups of
Americans:
First - the twenty-one million people who are
investing eight per cent of their wages. He ask
them to increase their investment to ten per cent
or more.
Second - the other nine million whom we ask to
Join the Payroll Savings Plan and to invest ten
per cent or more of their earnings.
It is our earnest hope here at the Treasury
Department that by Hew Year'3 Day thirty million
Americans will be investing ten per cent or more
of their wages in War Bonds through the Payroll
Savings Plan.
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