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DAN TOMPKINS, Editor
So fax in this war. the only deadly eas that has
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been turnd loose is- from the propaganda agencies, in
the United States Senate, and from the platform and
radio by such men as Senators Bennett Clark and
Burton K. Wheeler, and ex-colonel lindbergh.
f What have we accomplished toward retaining our
liberties by raising food and making munitions for
Britain, and then standing idly by and seeing them
sunK into the Atlantic.'
BUNCOMBE S GAIN
Buncombe county,in securing the services of Mrs.
Harry Evans as Home Demonstration Agent, has
gained a great asset. There is not a better qualified
woman in the State in her line of work, and her pleas
ing personality will make friends for herself and her
work, wherever she goes. She is a real leader among
women.
Jackson, being among that group. of counties
that is not as populous as some others, has been unusually
fortunate in keeping her valuable services
for fourteen years.
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PLAINLY SPEAKING
Let us not deceive ourselves nor be deceived. We
have been at war with Germany and Japan for many
months. Our liberties and our institutions, our way of
life and our form of government are as much threaten
ed as anybody's. Our security is in grave jeopardy. All
this our government has realized. Hence, we are and
have been at war?we just haven't had occasion to do
any shooting. We have not, and may not send an expeditionary
force to Europe or Asia; and then we may
have to do this. It is true that we have not made a formal
declaration of war; but that went out of fashion
with the Japanese invasion of Manchuria, and was
popularized by Mussolini in Ethiopia and Albania,
and by Hitler in Holland and at least a half dozen
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unnecessary and aggressive warfare.
The time has come for us, if we value our liberties,
to reverse our minds and begin thinking, not of
what the government can do for us, but of what can I
do for my government. This applies as much to the
wealthy, who get contracts that run into millions
from the government, as much as to the families who
depend upon the surplus commodities for subsistence,
to every person who has been recipient, directly or indirectly/
of governmental favors.
The federal government has Deen ounaing up a
national defense in the minds of the people, for several
years, by letting them know that their government is
mindful of them and their humblest needs. Democracy
has been made to work in this country for the
benefit of the people, all of us. Now the time has come
when the people, all of us must put our minds, hearts,
and hands to working for Democracy.
If Germany should win this war, investments of
the rich would be of little value. In that event, the advances
labor has made would be lost and'labor would
be reduced to the status of that in Germany and the
occupied countries, slave labor working.for merciless
and avaricious masters; and the plight of the really
poor would be pitiable. In fact, we would all be pover
- ty stricken, our material wealth gone, and we bereft of
our rich spiritual and political heritage.
We must all work, all produce, all save, all serve.
Provide the munitions and the foods that are neded in
rl in "Rritcjin cmH t.hpn SPP t,n it that I
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those that are intended for Britain get there.. Therein
lies our political salvation.
j MOTHER S DAY, 1941
One of the things for which we would find it hard
to forgive Hitler and the German nation is all the grief
and heartaches that they have brought to the mothers
of the world, by ushering in this reign of horror; and
for machine-gunning peasant mothers in Poland, as
they fell in their fields, or crowded the roads, fleeing as
from the wrath to come; for bombing the city of Rotterdam
after it had capitulated, killing and mutilating
thousands of Dutch mothers, to give the world an
example of how far German frigthfulness will go, in
impressing the world that the will of Germany must
be accepted.
For, the mothers of the world are its really great
heroes. It is they who suffer in silence, who keep a rendezvous
with Providence in the night watches, jvho
send their sons forth with a smile to uphold to the
death the principles of truth and right, that liberty
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THE JACKSON COUNTS JOURNAL, THURSDAY
may be preserved among the sons of men.
It is they who hold fast to the spirtual values, and'
who trust and love us when all the storms of hell beat
about us.
On Sunday, America pauses to pay tribute to
Mother.
In the Old Testament there appears a character,
the only woman that the Bible calls "great". We do not
l r?TT7 Vior namP' hilt. Txrrit^r nf TTnlxr Writ. RflVS "a
XVXAW ?Y 11V1 UIMUV, ??**W ./ great
woman". She was a humble woman, living in a
small town, keeping busy about the homely and holy
tasks of making a home for her husband, rearing her
son in the fear of God, and keeping hospitably ready
a room for the Man of God, when he chanced to pass
that way. She was humble, she was faithful, and,
therefore, she was a great woman. v
Thus it is that the names of the truly great of this
world remain unknown; and many thousands of these
humble, faithful, great people are and have been
mothers, who cherish in their hearts and exemplify
in their lives the great virtues of faith hope and love,
as they reach the heights of greatness through humility.
THINGS OF THE SPIRIT
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A few days ago, in dedicating the birthplace of
Woodrow Wilson, at Staunton, as a national shrine,
President Roosevelt called attention to the fact that
the spiritual values far exceed all physical value, and
that it was in this realm that Woodrow Wilson made
his greatest contribution to American life.
Our heritage as Americans has been great. The
physical heritage, the wealth of our country was
dissipated to large degree. We were prodigal with it, in
depleting our forests and our lands, and in destroying
them, in the belief that the store was inexhaustible.
We now have come to the place in our national
life that we are thinking, planning, and working to
rnnsprvp the remnant of that once apparently |
boundless supply of national resources that was the
inheritance of America.
Sometimes we wonder if the same thing hasn't 1
happened to the spiritual heritage. No people any- <
where ever had a nobler spiritual inheritance than
the native American. Our fathers came to this country
seeking God and Liberty under the law. They
placed their faith in the spirtual verities and prized ?
them above all possessions. That inheritance from our i
fathers has made us a noble nation and has carried 1
us far. But, have we conserved those spiritual re- '
sources and added to them, have we increased our (
spiritual inheritance, or have we seen it diminish as t
the years have come and gone? They remain today i
as our chief bulwark against the tide of paganism 1
and slavery that is sweeping over the world but are ]
they as strong as they were in other days?
Have we allowed the propagandists to shake our j
faith in ourselves, our country and its institutions,
to fear war more than slavery, to place self above 1
patriotism, to believe that we are self-sufficient, and {
that what happens to the rest of mankind is no con
cern of ours? Haven't we, until recently, been taking i
the impudent attitude of the murderer Cain, and i
asking the Lord to His face if we are our brother's ?
keeper? Have we, to some extent neglected to look
upon our liberties and think of them as priceless pos- [
sessions? Have we failed to put the proper evaluation i
fVimrrc nf tVio cnirit.9 J
UjJUil LI 1C tlllilgo UJL V11V/ AW.
The spirit of a man needs nourishments just as 1
his body does. Time *was when most Americans knew *
their Bibles, that Book from which came not only our 1
religious faith, but also our liberties. Time was when
the right or wrong of a matter was settled by refer- r
ence to that Book, and "thus saith the Lord" ended *
all dispute. That was the last word, and few pepole s
cjared to question it. Time was when Sunday was a *
sacred day in America, when usual avocations, play,
and secular pursuits were laid aside, and the people ?
turned their minds to the things of the spirit. Here
we have undoubtedly lost much. It is appallingfhow
little most people either know or care what the Book ca
says. Once it was a topic of general and more or less t
intelligent discussion. The great flood of immigration t
from continental Europe, brought here to secure f
rhean labor for our growing industrialists, and im- \*
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posed upon us with the fallacious doctrine tnat a c
super race would come out of the "melting pot" of y
races, brought ideals and ideas foreign to our fathers r
to the American shores. More and more the continen- e
tal idea of Sunday as a holiday instead of a holy day 3
has laid hold upon America. This was one day dedicat- F
ed to the necessary cultivation of the spiritual. When ^
we edged further and further from that ideal and t
that purpose, we inevitably lost a great deal, for spiritual
values were bound to suffer from neglect. "The
Sabbath was made for man", said the Master, and he
knew full well that man's good, the spiritual gobd of
a nation could best be served by such observance of
one day out of seven as would tend to the spiritual
strengthening of the people. If we fail to feed our
bodies properly, they become weak. If we misuse our !
material riches they flee from us. If we neglect the
day upon which our spirits are to be fed, and neg- ;
lect to carry the Word in our hearts, then as ind'i- J
viduals and as a nation, we suffer the loss of spirit- J
ual riches and strength. *
America, in this time, must learn to put more val- <
ue upon our spirtual inheritance, which was prized so '
highly by our fathers. Therein lies at least a part of r
the answer to the problems of our times. j
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MAY 1941
I OUR DEMOCRACY byM.t j
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^ for america's strength is VAR/ETy-D/VERSlF/CAT/ON.
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to IN/T/AT/VE AND BRA/NS*
adventurous pioneer
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our many minerals.the jsmtfj*
great variety of our. j
MANUFACTURES 15 BASttf .
ON ONE THIN6 ?INVENTIVE
GENIUS IN WHICH
[FORESIGHT AND THRIFT GAVE US 7*V<? 077/?A
AMERICAN DIVERSIFICATIONS ROTATION OF CROPS,
ESSENTIAL TO SUCCESSFUL FARMING .... AND THE j
SPREADING OF THE INVESTMENTS OF OUR
LIFE INSURANCE COMPANIES J J
THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE COUNTRY, i J
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Electric Hotbeds [method is the best way to feed 1
Gaining In Favor ' fattening h0&s- Ifc saves la&or i
| and feed, is an ideal way to uti- f
Electricity, now performing an lize dT* *eed' *elPs keep feed t
ncreasing number of tasks c^ean> aPd enables each pig to i
ibout the farm, is finding favor select his own rati?nimong
progressive growers in nursin& sows, are self-fed, the <
leating hotbeds, according to D. P*^s w learn to eat from the .
3. Jones, rural electrification *ee(*er before weaning time,
specialist of N. C. State College. W^en the sows are taken away
Farmers who have used the at weaninS time' the P^ may ;
jlectric hotbeds say they are bet- continued on the self-feeder P
;er than the old stable compost interruption.
3ed because the plants grow J
'aster. This means that the i? - t
slants are younger when they Yrvii?<T?ip>rc N
ittain a size sufficient for trans- * lAUlgolCio liccu
planting, a desirable factor in JSJq Stimulants! f
iruck farming.
Another advantage of the elec- t
-ric hotbed, Jones said, is that A born idiot has dignity, but one
;he installation may be made artificially created by alcohol has 1
permanent and that the tem- none? Angelo Patri wrote recently in F
jerature may be maintained and a rolumn for young people
, , , Writing for the Bell Syndicate, he n
egulated automatically to the said.
leeds of the. particular plants "The reforming of grown people
jeing grown. . , never interests me. If we teach
This feature permits the fore- children what is good for them and
?d growth and early maturity do our best to protect them from ?
>f spring vegetables suited to evil we will not have too many adults n
lotbed planting. An electric preform, pat is why the cocktail
.. . , ' . .. hour that offers stimulating drinks c
lotbed will provide the family to young peopIe fa ^ ,a* >teen,
able with early spring veget- g^d early 20's uems so dangerous I a
ibles and aid the truck gardener to me.
n meeting out-of-season com- "Young people are stimulated by
)etition in the market. the wine of youth. There is no drink
As the electric hotbed is per- as heady f that with which nature o
nanent, considerable labor is has stim * em" 65 _
;aved every year, and the initallation
and operating cost I
compares favorably with other ^
sources of heat. . - UflaUlH ?
During the past season, many
growers with electrically-heated g
)eds reported securing several 1 ?? .
imes more plants than with the JST^^
ild manure bed. The fact that jh?^
i great many more plants can ml BliFJJiJJ fi
>e grown in a yard of the elec>ed
makes it possible for the si 0
armer to reduce the size of his (r *
>lant bed. This means a saving If j
n seed, labor, and fertilizer. The "4E
ost of operating an electric IA \l ill
lotbed will vary with power S
ates, the severity of the weath- lA
r, the temperature of the soil, A W. C. T. U. Temperance Poster ?
, n d the contruction of the
ilant bed. ^ey ^av<k to ^eep 311 even balance p
. ; without taking on additional stimula- ir
. M tion in the form of a cocktail.
>tate College Answers "The afternoon gathering and the
Fimely Farm Questions need for rela*atlon and ?aiety are
- . " set in me day's routine by nature.
Cocktails are not nature's way of re- c
QUESTION: How should poul- lieving the situation and we who al
ry houses with dirt floors be *** In any way responsible for the n
iisinfected? ' welfare of young people should be Ei
ANSWER: Dirt floors, regard- quick to save situation b? pr?- St
less of the care given them, are the needlul elements witnout
? 4. x ^ , falling back on stimulants.
a distinct menace to the wel- "Music > will help tremendously
fare of the poultry industry, says provided it is selected with an eye
Roy S. Dearstyne, head of the to its effect Tea is a good stimu
State College Poultry Depart- lant A good drink?tasty, sparkling, in
ment. If conditions actually snappy?can be made by combining C(
necessitate houses * with such tea' J11106? and g^ger-aie. 11 W
floors these should be scraDed can bc lovely 1x1 color and n cnoors,
inese snouia De scrapea gerved da glasses is quite as ,
Mice each month. Pour to six attracUve ? any cocktaii. ? will lcl
inches of dirt should be removed 8meU fetter and taste as good and
and replaced with sand or soil it will do its work without robbing
from unpolluted sources. The youth of its charm and its brains,
material removed should be tak- "A body without its mind is an tic
en to some place where chickens awful ***** especially when that eo
iQ not range occupied by an in- ^
Tm, ? u * telligent, able mind. . . . It's an '
^ . N' ^Vhat . n beS awful sight and one no young person
nethod of feeding swine? would wish to imprint on friends' | ^
ANSWER: The self-feeder memories." *a:
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Housewives Begin
Blanket Storage
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The arrival of warm weather
means putting away those
blankets which will not be needed
again until next fall, says
Miss Pauline Gordon, extension
home. management and house
furnishing specialist of n. q
State College.
A warm spring day when the
sun is shining and a light wind
hlnu/incr ic q>-> '
cAccxieni time to
wash out the soil of winter and
store blankets out of the reac;
of moths.
Miss Gordon explained thax
the warmth of a blanket depends
Upon a SOft. flllffV nan uta-,
f ??U01
fibres are soft, crimpy, and scaly.
When a wool blanket is placed in
warm soapy water, the fibers
become softened or plastic, if
the blanket is subjected to hard
rubbing or wringing, the fibres
tend not only to creep up on
each other, but to stick together.
Because of the danger of this
shrinkage and matting of the
wool when it is washed, every
homemaker should understand
the rules of washing blankets
properly. Since wool cannot
stand too much cold or too much
heat, only lukewarm water
should be used for washing and
rinsing. The temperature of the
water should never be above 90
degrees F. ?
The second thing to remember,
Miss Gordon said, is to use soft
water and mild neutral soap,
never': a strong laundry soap,
rwo tablespoonsful of borax to
jach tub of water should be
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luueu u. wic waici xiccus suuenng.
If a sediment forms, the
jvater should be strained.
Water should be squeezed, not
;wisted, out of a blanket. If a
vringer is used, the blanket
should be folded flat and the
;ension on the rolls released to
tvoid crushing the nap.
Summer Shelters
Prove Profitable ^
Summer range shelters will
>ay as much on the investment
is any other expenditure the
joultryman can make, according
o T. T. Brown, extension poulryman
of N. C. State College.
Where more than 100 birds
,re kept, the shelter results in
eed economy and healthier,
tiore thrifty pullets. This assures
he producer of a more economical
egg production and a lower
>ullet mortality .
"In order to face competition
lore successfully," Brown
tated, "the poultry raiser should
>e interested in any piece of
quipment or practice that really
ives results such as the sumler
range shelter does."
When the shelter is placed on
lean land where ample tender
reen feed and shade are availble,
it will cost much less to
eed pullets than if the birds
rere confined to a small yard or
are lot.
Where the pullets range on a
reen crop such as lespedeza or
oybeans, they will get somehing
that the feed manufacurer
has not been able to put
i the feed bag.
The shelter that Extension
ervice poultrymen have found
^ be the most economical and I
lost satisfactory is A-shaped I
rith the eaves about two feet I
rom the ground and the peak I
f the roof about five feet, ten I
iches. The shelter is 9 by 10 I
^et in size and will accomodate I
00 pullets. I
"The use of the summer range I
belter helps to eliminate di- I
?ase and intestinal parasites. I
uts vigor into the pullets, and I
lakes for better egg size and I
roduction by properly develop- I
lg the birds", Brown said. I
DIVERSIFY I
Madison County farmers are I
iking advantage of diversified
^riculture to increase their an
uai cash income, reports P- J*
lam, farm agent of the N. &
rv?nonra TTYf.pnsion Serv
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POWER 1
Contracts will be let soon
^enty-two miles of P?^r ^ I
nine communities of ^ I
)unty, according to ^ I
heeler, farm agent of I
State College Extension **
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VALUABLE
Sol Wright, unit I
>n farmer of the Jac untv. I
mmunity of Yance^"Iirne W I
ys the phosphate and 1
is used during the t0 tiis I
ars has been worth 5
rm.
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