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SUBSCRIPTION RATES:
Oae Year $1.60
8k Months .76
Four Months 60
Oot of the State $2.00 per Year
Bwtiirwii at the poet efflce at North Willeea-
boriL N. G., aa leccod elan matter Att
of Mi^ 4, 1879.
MONDAY, FEB. 26, 1940
The Farm Program
This is the time of the year when farm-
ats are planning their operations for the
year and is also the time for them to sign
forms signifying that they wish to comply
with the government’s soil program.
The benefits due farmers of the county
for the past year were approximately $90.-
©00. This is a lot of money, especially
when the fact is considered that the money
is being paid farmers for what they should
have done anyway.
But the fact remains that the farm pay
ments help the farmers very much. Many
who otherwise are unable to finance the
planting of legumes, buy lime, make ter
races, plant trees, thin woodland or do
other things to improve and conserve soil
are enabled to go ahead with the help of
the government payments.
Farmers in Wilkes have been encourag
ed to carry out every practice possible for
which payment is made. Each one is ask
ed to earn the maximum payment allowed
for his farm if possible.
Farm improvement in Wilkes county is
one of the most important needs which
faces the people. Better farm homes and
better farms will constitute one of the best
advertisements for the county.
Ebicouraging farmers to take part in the
soil program in ord m for them to earn pay
ments has a decidedly good educational
effect. When they plant legumes, im
prove pastures, terrace to prevent erosion,
thin forests, use lime and phosphate they
'855^ the good results obtained and the re
sults act as an incentive for greater im
provement and consistency of good prac
tices.
Declining Death Rate
Interesting figures are often found in
statistics, dull as they seem to the average
person.
The death rate per 1.000 persons in
North Carolina last year dropped to nine,
which is unusually low.
But even more interesting that the rate
for the state was the rate lor members of
the Reins-Stiirdivant Burial association,
which had 45,644 members in northwe.s-
tern North Carolina. While the death rate
for the state was nine per thousand, the
rate in th's large group of the people in
this section was only five.
While it would be fanta.st c to assume
that the people of this section of the .state
are going to live to an average of 200 years
of age and we know tnat the rate must in
crease among the group, the figures are
interesting and repre.sent a good adver
tisement for northwe.stern North Carolina.
Progress made along medical lines and
education of the people to fundamentals
in disease prevention has resulted in a de
clining death rate throughout the nation.
This means that a larger percentage of the
population is going to be in the m ddle ago
and aged class, because the birth rate for
the nation as a whole is not as high as it
was 20 years ago and will probably go
low'er with the bulk of the populat'on in
crease being accounted for by the lower
ed death rate.
A Campaign Year
This year promises to be a very inter-
e.sting year from a political standpoint.
The nation w’ill elect all its representa
tives in congre.ss, a third of the senators, a
president and a vice president. In addi
tion, practically all of the states will elect
governors, legislators and counties will al
so elect their officers.
There is something intere.sting about an
election year when the people exercise
their right to govern themselves. All the
fanfare, speeches and other noises which
are made to arouse the emotions of the
people in one direction or another are a
part of the system of democracy.
It gives us thought to pause for a mo
ment and be thankful that we have the
privilege of the ballot and that office
seekersi plead for votes instead of order
ing men to vote their way.
An election year in America is a striking
example of democracy at work.
TTie small minority of people who would
seek to control votes by coercion, bribery
and other low down methods deserve the
contempt! of all liberty loving citizens who
appreciate democracy.
But that type is decidedly in the minori
ty and the American people are so consti
tuted that they will not long toleriite
by force or by any means other than ..
expression of the majority of the people;
And in a democracy the mindzities have
the same rights as those who belong to the
majority.
This will be an interesting campagin
year and with comirtunications developed
to a degree never before reached, the cam
paign should serve to educate the Ameri
can populace. But the citizens should
throw aside prejudice, weigh all the pro
paganda carefully and then vote as they
think best for the nation.
Borrowed Comment
UN-AMERICAN TROUBLE-MAKERS
(Hertford County Herald)
One by one the un-American groups and
organizations which have made it their
business to stir up racial prejudices and
religious intolerance are being smoked
out and shown up in their true colors.
The latest of these subversive groups,
whose concealed purpose has just been
brought to light, is the “Silver Shirts.’’ The
leader of the Silver Shirts, William Dudley
Pelley, confessed at a hearing before the
Dies Committee in Washington that it was
really an anti-Jewish organization, con
cealing its real purpose under the cloak of
patriotism.
So far as has been disclosed, the Silver
Shirts have not done anything except to
fulminate in print and by word of mouth;
but that Mr. Pelley should be able to mus
ter a group of followers calling themselves
Americans, who had so little understand
ing of the fundamental basis of Ameri
canism, is a sorry comntentary upon the
intelligence and understanding of a con
siderable sector of the American people.
This is just another example of the way
in which ideas brought from foreign coun
tries can take root among the minds of
people with a distorted conception of pa
triotism.
There \ ould be occasion for serious con
cern about the stability of the Bill of
Rights and the future of the Nation if
there were evidence of any spontaneous
public sentiment behind such erforts to
deprive minorities of their civil liberties.
There is no such evidence. And so long
as the Government’s strong arm stands
ready to punish any actual intimidation or
suppression of any class or race, however
small a minority it may be, America will
continue to be the land of the free.
PROTECTING READERS
(Concord Tribune)
The press, said Father Charles E.
Coughlin, in his most recent broadcast, is
not the proper vehicle to carry his reply to
critics, who have, in increasing numbers
been asking questions of the radio crusa
der lately.
What Father Coughlin meant, no doubt,
is that the press will not fall for reams of
propaganda. In that, he is correct. The
columns of American newspapers are, at
all time.s. onen to earnest controversies of
interest to their readers. When such con-
troversie.s are used, however, .solely to
dramatize or glamorize an individual or an
idea out of proportion to its significance,
the press is not willing to cooperate.
The past several years have been trying
ones for the press in general. Propaganda
is sometimes dressed in alluring robes, and
it is not easy to distinguish it from true
news. During the strain of modern events.
American newspapers generally have per
formed a creditable piece of work.
“POLITICAL PAP”
(Gaffney Ledger)
Some member of the legislature has pro
posed that each senator and each member
of the hou.se be given four scholarships to
the .state schools for distribution to the
young people of the various counties. That
would be providing “political pap” with a
vengeance.
The scholarship idea is all right if not
abused. Beneficiaries should be limited to
young men and young wom>en who would
not otherwise be able to .secure higher edu
cation. But the awarding of the scholar
ships .should not be put on a purely politi
cal basis.
Citizens of the .state pay millions of dol
lars yearly to keep up the colleges and the
university. There is no reason, however,
for the general taxpayers to be forced to
meet the costs of an education for an indi
vidual who.se family is financially able to
pay his way.
Raleigh. —^ North CaxoUne,
through the medium df Its State
Board of Health, in cooperation
with other important agenclea, ia
preparing to take another advanc
ed step, In the field of nutrition,
which will include definite action.
The human being—not the
rabbit or the guinea pig—will re
ceive the benefits.
The General Committee on Nu
trition met at the call of Dr.
Carl V. Reynolds, State Health
Officer, In the new State LaboraA
tory of Hygiene building, and dls-
cusged plana for the impro-ejicnt
of the nutritional atatus of the
people of North Carolina. As a
first step, it was determined to
launch a statewide tact-tindlr?
program, to be carried on through
the various agencies repre.sented,
after which further steps will be
taken.
Cooperating Agencies
Department of Public Instruc
tion: Charles E. Spencer, repre
senting Superintendent Clyde A.
Erwin; Miss Virginia Ward.
Duke University School of Med
icine: Dr. W. C. Davidson, dean;
Dr. William A. Perlzwelg, Dr. G.
S. Eadie, Dr. W. J. Dann.
Rockefeller Foundation: Dr.
John A. Ferrell, Dr. John F.
Kendrick, Dr. D. F. Milam.
Department of Public 'Welfare'
Mrs. W. T. Host, commissioner;
Dr. James Watson, head of the
Division of Mental Hygiene.
Department of Agriculture: Dr.
E. C. Constable, representing
Commissioner W. Kerr Scott; Dr.
C. W. Pegram.
Extension Division. State Col
lege: Dean I. O. Schaub, Dr. John
W. Goodman.
North Carolina Medical So
ciety: Dr. Cloyce R. Tew, repre
senting Dr. T. W. M. Long.
North Carolina College for
Women: Mias Margaret Edwards.
University of North Carolina,
Division of Public Health: Dr. H.
W. Brown.
State Board of Health: Dr. G.
M. Cooper, Dr. E. S. Lnpton, Dr.
J. C. Knox. Dr. R. E. Fox, Dr.
Walter Wilkins.
Dr. John M. Saunders, ot the ;
Children’s Bureau, Washington,
also attended the meeting.
There were expressions of co
operation from all present, the
conference, which was held in the
fourth floor of the new laboratory
building, lasting tor almost four
hours.
(ieneral I’urpo.sos Explained
Dr. Reynolds, who called the
conference and presided, explain
ed its purposes and outlined plans
for a cooperative nutritional stu
dy, which is being set up in co
operation with the Duke Univers
ity Medical School.
"The purpose of the study.’’
Dr. Reynolds explained, “is to get
an accurate .measure of the pi't-.s
put iiutritioiial status' of selected
areas and groups of the popul.i-
lion,’’ explaining that, in t>crtei-
that the Ite.st results might oe oli-
tained, the first studies, including
blood tests of patients, etc., wpuiti
bo conducted in an area within
thirty miles of Durham.
"This basic information,” he
continued, "is considered neces
sary both to outline the problem
to be attacked and to furnish a
base line against which improve
ments can he measured.
"The statewide Nutrition Com-
Shoot
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Lou Aai«leo> Fob.
ing "slx-obootero” 1q the mMirt of
a anorral between two movie lot
cowboys attraicted little attention
today on busy ebneet boulevard.
But what m>ectators thought
was a movie scene ended In the
death of John Tyke, 45, and the
arrest of Jerome B. Ward, 60,
■both "western bit’’ players.
Ward, captured after a chase
by police, wag booked on suspi
cion of slaying. During the book
ing proceedings be took off bis
10-gallon hat, rolled a cigaret
and struck a match on the seat of
'his blue jeans.
C. R. Sylvester and W. P.
Molle, who made the arreet, said
Ward pointed his gun at them
and "fanned” the hammer in the
western style, but the weapon
was empty.
“I’ve fed and helped that guy
for years,” they quoted him as
saying, “but he’s been picking on
me for four months.”
number of
'^’ltO;006 ' 'persons
ttom Jattuary 1 to FelftMiT 1. re-
pmrts the U. 8. Agrienltnral
Idarketlng Service.
Btarkettng mont^ for
cotton in recent'years, a tnOel
1,766,771 bales being moved If
trade channels.
Carl A. Lowe & Sons *
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NOTICE OF SALE OF
PERSONAL PROPERTY
COURAGE AND CANDOR
(Charleston News and Courier)
Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt insistence that
the American Youth Congress “is fighting
for great principles in which the commun
ists could share is characteristic of her
courage and candor. It commands The
News and Couriers adminiration. Com
munists are persons who believe that the
American republic should be destroyed,
that private property should be abolished,
that a state modeled on the Bolshevik, or
Russian plan should be established in the
territory of the United States. Commun
ists believe that in order to advance the r
cause they can take an oath to support and
defend the constitution of the United
States and break it at convenience.
Notice is hereby given that op
the 9th dav of March, 1940, at one
o’clock P. M., the undersigned Ad
ministratrix will offer for .sale *
the highest bidder for cash at the
home of the late W. A. Sprinkle
the following articles of personal
property:
ONE CROSS CUT SAW
ONE BUCK SAW
ONE HAND SAW
ONE MOWING SCYTHE
ONE HOE
ONE CORN SHELLER
ONE CRADLE
ONE DOUBLE STOCK PLOW
ONE SHOVEL PLOW
ONE SPOOL BARBED WIRE
SOME WAGON JUNK
POST DIGGER
SIEVE
ONE BEE EXTRACTOR
WAGON TIRES
ONE PITCH PORK
ONE HARROW
BRACE WIRE
ONE DIRT SCOOP
1,000 FEET, MORE OR LESS,
OF LUMBER
MRS. W. A. SPRINKLE,
Administratrix of the estate of
W. A. Sprinkle, deceased.
This the 16th day of February,
1940. 3 4-3t
PRESENT CONTROL CHILDISH
(Charleston News and Courier)
“Many of us are realizing”, The Union
Times says, “that it is not a function of
government to take control of the chil
dren.” Reading about the “American
Youth Congress” we gather that it is func
tion of the children to take control of gov
ernment. '
WILLIAMS
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USED PARTS—For all makes
and medeb ef edra and traefca
mittee,” the Health Officer went
on, “has for Its task the general
supervision of the nutritional stu
dy by fixing O'bjectives and gen
eral procedures. iMore Important,
however, is the formulation. In
due course, of a apractlcal pro
gram for improving the nutrition
al status of the whole population.
It is hoped that the study mi.y
provide facts to serve as a ba; is
for this program and that grad
ually a comprehensive plan cau
'be worked out.’’
Dr. Reynolds went on to say
that “the State Board of Health
has been deeply interested for
many years in this problem, and
intensification of the work no-w
hes immediately ahead.
Qnalitatve Food Deficiencies
“'In North Carolina, not only
poverty, but ignorance, has led to
miHch ill health from food de
ficiencies and resulting deficiency j
di;-iease,s. It is the qualitative rath
er than the quantitative element
of food that has been overlooked.
"The high incidence of pellag
ra about 1930 led to a vigorous.'
educational campaign on the part
of the State Board of Health to
promote the use of pellagra-pre
venting foods. A declining pella
gra rate lia.s eased that situation,
but pellagra is still so prevalent
as to be a reproach to the State.”
Discussing ot this and other
deficiency diseases. Dr. Reynolds
declared:
If it’s natural, ifs right with Uncle Natchel,.. and
that’s a good safe rule.
The natural way to fertilize crops — for better yield
and better quality — is to use Natural Chilean Nitrate
of Soda. It’s the world’s only natural nitrate. Plenty of
quick-acting nitrogen and a natural balance of protec
tive plant-food elements to give you healthier plants,
more fertile soil.
No price increase this season ending June 30, 1940.
Plenty of N atural Chilean Nitrate for everybody’s needs.
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“Of course, sometiung should
be done about it. A statewide
plan and program to put to u.se
some of our scientific knowledge
of nutrition is urgently called
for,’’ and he explained that this
is the underlying purpose of the
General Co.mmittee on Nutrition
which, from now on, he .said, will
attack thi.s problem-from ©very
angle.
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