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V ■ — —=a The Skyland Post Published Every Thursday By SKYLAND PUBLISHING COMPANY West Jefferson, N. C. THURSDAY, APR. 14, 194!) Entered as Second-Class Matter at the Post Office, West Jefferson, N. C. ED M. ANDERSON Publisher MRS. ED M. ANDERSON Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES PER YEAR In Ashe—12.50 Outside Ashe—53.00 The Post is glad to publish letters, not too long, on matters of general interest. But such communications must be accompanied by the real name of the writer, even when they are to be published under a nom de plume. MEMBER OF NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION National Advertising Representative Newspaper Advertising Service Chicago San Francisco New York J KusU v I4)!4) Easter 194!) finds many major world problems still unsettled. Communism is spreading. Hunger, fear and bloodshed are still prevalent in many parts of the world. But with it all there is a new hope among free nations. The recent signing of the North Atlantic Pact by a group of nations t > keep down aggression and the unified drive of the churches lor world ic lief brought hope to thousands, who had been looking at a dark picture. It is particularly fitting such movements should come at this season of the year; for Spring anil Easter arc a time ol new hope, new life. But we should never forget that Easter is a time ol rededication to the principles of Him, who gave us new hope at Easter xime. Until the world can come nearer to carrying out His principles there will always be fear, hunger and unhappiness. \Ve have much to be thankful for this Easter but along with all that we are thankful for, we have added responsibili ties as individuals and as a nation. As indi viduals we should feel more keenly the meaning of Easter. As we attend sunrise services and other church services through out the day. let us again rejoice for the world may rise to new heights of under standing and appreciation of Him. who gave us Easter with its hope, joy and triumph of good over evil and continue to work and pray that individuals and the promise. ——--0O0 Conservation Pledge If every American would meaningly accept and sign the conservation pledge — "I give my pledge as an American, to save and faithfully to defend from waste the natural resources of my country — its soils and minerals — its forests, waters and wildlife" — conservation would not be a problem. As the fishing season opens, from the Department of Interior comes a report, which says that the basic resources of soil, water, oil. forests and wildlife have suf fered long, and world-wide abuse. For that reason fundamental principles of con servation are being brought into sharp focus. All natural resources of the earth are interrelated and dependent so that no one resource can be conserved without the conservation of all. Conservation cannot be treated as a scries of local, unrelated problems. It must be coordinated over wide geographic areas The pilchard coast fishery suffered its third successive season of disastrously low catches in 1948. Conservation is the responsibility of everyone from the farmer to the fisher man. It is the business of the businessman and an important phase of industry of the industrialist. r.n. Outdoor Citizenship The beautiful Blue Ridge Parkway opens for the season on Friday. Each time we re-visit the Parkway wc marvel again at the wonders of nature the Park way makes possible for thousands to see. When we visit a noted cathedral we never try to mar its beauty by chipping off some of the masonery or taking away some of the paintings. Even if we did not know better there are usually guards or at least signs to remind us that we must not even touch treasures. Did you ever stop to think that the Parkway lands are set aside as a public trust for public enjoyment? It is not in tended vandalism should mar their beauty 1 for those who follow a few who have no I appreciation of them. Citizenship must be practiced out of doors, as well as inside. I The beautiful parks arc a responsibility of i each citizen. Let us remember that good outdoor living practices include fire pre vention, consideration of private and pub lic property, cleaning up a picinc or cook ing place after it has been used. Let’s enjoy the wonderful outdoors, but let’s show our appreciation by admir ing, not mafing beauty. -ouo-—— ! Your Cancer Figlit Medical authorities have termed 1949 a year of great promise in cancer research. However, due to a lack of hinds the American Cancer Society was forced to | turn down 49 per cent of the applications ! for research projects approved by the Com | m it tee on Growth of the National Research i Council. In addition, the American Can j cor Society had to reduce appropriations j bv f>4 per cent for projects it did support i The key to open the door to cancer's j secrets could very well come from one ot j these worthy projects now indolinitelv : postponed. This means that hundreds of thousands I of lives may he needlessly lost, your friends', perhaps your family's or even your own. Of necessity, this year's campaign for I funds must be greater than ever. More I and more people must be ready to realize j that their contributions are vital weapons in the light to curb cancer. Won’t you please help in our tight to ! aid mankind and to help in defeating the great enemy . . . cancer? — -, ,Oi i Youth And Safely i j Encouraged by success of last year in reducing the number and severity of rural accidents, 4-11 Club members over the Uni ted States are swinging into the effort with added vigor in 1949. The members have j in view of cutting further the still stagger | ing total of one and one-half million farm ■ residents who had to take enforced vaca tions in 1948 because of a disabling acci dent. Sponsored again by General Motors, the National safety competition will earn expense - free trips for State winners to I the National 4-H Club Congress next No I vember, eight National scholarships and I medals for the winners in each county. I The most successful county in each State J will be awarded a plaque. With some 8,000,000 boys and girls affi liated with the 4-H Clubs in this country, a mammoth force can be brought into play for farm accident reduction. ! Daily safety habits m use of equipment | in farm buildings and yards, and in hand I ling machinery and livestock, are brought to the attention of all members of the family by the active 4-11 participant. Coun ty extension agents and local 4-II Club j leaders encourage members to check and remove conditions likely to cause acci dents and fires. They also are taught and encouraged to cooperate in community safety activities. The safety program for farm youth al so takes into consideration highway safe tv. More than 7,800 rural residients were i killed in highway mishaps of 1948. -oOo-— A Personal Responsibility "The tragic part of any accident is that Fate has so little to do with it — and the individual so much,” Commissioner L. C. Rosser of the Department of Motor Vehic les said recently in connection with North Carolina's current campaign to emphasize the individual's responsibility for traffic safety. “Drivers in nearly three-fourths of all fatal accidents in 1947, for instance, were violating some traffic regulation at the time, as were three out of four pedestrials who were victims of fatal accidents.” Personal responsibility, and the fact that “It Can Happen to You,” Commiss ioner Rosser pointed out, is the theme of the traffic safety educational program be ing sponsored by the Motor Vehicles De partment during this month. “Your Life Is In Your Hands,” is the official slogan of the program which is part of a national campaign sponsored by the National Safe j ty Council. This Week In Washington With congress passing the buck nf rent control back to the local communities, high point of inter est insofar as the rural communi ties of the nation is concerned is j the expected stand of Secretary of Agriculture Charles F. Bran nan on the Administration’s long range farm program. As this is written, the contend I mg forces which include the | three large farm organizations l holding opposing views on this legislation, particularly with re spect to farm price supports are at a standstill. The„se views range from 100 per cent of par-: 'tv. down to 00 per rent and to the sliding scale of supports as now provided by the Hope-Aiken 'arm law It is "xpeted that Sec- i rotary Brannnn’s recommenda ! tion to the House and Senate ag riculture commit), n. will (alb1 the form of a compromise. According to observers here in Washington, the push for lb. rigid farm price supports at a high level is losing some of its steam, and Senator Aiken has been heating the grass roofs in an attempt to whin up support, to retain the provisions of the present law. which go into effect January 1. 1950 The most telkng argument of the proponents for a lower par-' ify price support and the sliding scale is the h'eh cost of the sup nort price and thor> indication even now that hv the end of this year the Commodity Credit corporation will have exhausted its four and one half billion dol lar loan kitty. As a matter of fact, about two billion dollars of these funds are already tied up even before the 1949 cmns start rolling from the fields. CCC has about 750 mil lions tied up in cotton loans: more than 200 millions in corn all on 194H crops. The potato price support has already cod the government something like 170 millions of dollars. Nevertheless. Congress ever, under the Aiken law, cannot nf-| ford to let CCC go broke, so will; have to fork oyer more fund: and those funds come from tin | taxpayer. The farm organizations are lie ; ed up to fight against the 7a j cent minimum wage bill, and ob servers here sav they are fight-1 ing a losing battle. The farmers are not directly affected by the bill, since it is agreed that farm labor will not | be included in the measure in: its finality. However, the farm-j or who hires labor would be in ! directly affected, since if rural! businessmen arc included in the | bill such as cannors. agricultural1 processors, ginners. the increased competition for the 75-cont jobs would force farmers to pay morel for their workers. In about half the states, parti cularly throughout the south, the1 average hourly rate farmers pay workers is less than the proposed 75-cent minimum. There is also considerable; speculation in Washington this week over whether the secretary of agriculture will be likely to proclaim a national marketing' quota for wheat for the market ing year beginning in 1950. If he decides to take this action, he must also proclaim a national acreage allotment for wheat. According to information acre age of Spring wheat is expected to be about 20.300,000 acres or al | most four per cent larger than 'the total planted in 1948. Combined with the winter wheat acreage estimated last De cember. the total 1949 olanted auvci^i- ui uui'ai I'Mimciii'U ui 181,670.000 acres. or about five per cent more than was planted for the harvest last year. According to some who are close to the White House the president has changed his tactics in his dealings with congress and is prepared to go all the way in an effort to get along with the legislators on Capitol Hill. An example is his cooperative state ment in approval of the watered down rent control bill. The bill is far from the meas ure asked by the president, but he gave it high praise. These ob servers say that as a matter of fact the president was furiously angry. These same observers say that if his program doesn't come through congress, that a trip around the country to take his case to the people is still a pos sibility. Ser»at(vr William E. Jk'nnor, Republican from Indiana, brought nation-wide publicity in a three hour speech in the senate where in he denounced the Marshall \Plan, urged its appropriations be | withdrawn, declared he woulc EVER THE STONE SHALL BE ROLLED AWAY r ■ DOWN SOUTH Director of Research Southern States Industrial Council Bv THURMAN SENSING I Tin: mu ni is shout on MII.K As great as have been the stride- marie in the South in re-, rent years in diversified agricul ture, in emphasizing the South's agricul'.u: d advantages with its favorable climate and long growing "ason, and even in the developin'mt of the cattle indus try, tin South still needs more milk cow- There was a time, when as a boy I used to get up on a frosty morning and milk six cow> before breakfast, that 1 thought we had too many milk cows — but statistics that are just as c rid as those frosty morn-j ings prove me wrong, even withi all the improvement we have! made in the meantime. i The Milk Industry Foundation' has recently published figures showing that the 1947 U. S. farm milk production amounted to 55,519 million quarts. However,I the sixteen Southern states, which compl y ■ one-thiVd the area and contain one - third the people of the United States only; produced Id,70(1 million quarts. In other words, instead of pro ducing its 33 per cent share of the nation's milk, the South only produced 22 per cent. The South both can and should, remedy this situation. The South' very easily can do so, because all the natural advantages fur dairy ing are in its favor. The growing season for forage crops of all; sorts is much longer in the South and not nearly so much dependence must he placed upon silage and dry feeds. The pro duction of feed for dairy cattle is not only cheaper in the South, but the housing and care in the much less rigorous climate of the South is also less expensive. The South should produce more milk both because of its importance in the diet of the people and because its monetary value would add greatly to the economic welfare of the region. Milk, in some form or other, comprises more than 25 pqf cent of the foods consumed annually by the average American, and its importance in the diet can not be over-estimated. Consump tion in the United States at the present time is 14 per cent above pre-war levels, with more than (ill million quarts of fresh milk and cream being used daily. I Moreover, the cash farm income from milk ranks second only to that from cattle and calves. It is more than the total income from hogs, one-third more than the total from poultry and eggs, over one and a half times the to i tal from wheat, nearly double I the total from cotton, four times I the total from tobacco, and so I on. The South only receives 20 refuse to adhere to any by-parti san foreign policy and declared that this nation's role in helping the less fortunate peoples and countries of the earth had made us "hated around the world.” income ;>■ : cent of t h :s cash from milk. The production of creamery butter and cheese, of course, rep resents one of our most impor-: tant agriculture - industry inte grations. When we consider the amount of these two items pro-1 dueed in the South, we realize still more sharply the region's shortage along these lines. Of the nation’s production of 1, 321.700,000 pounds of creamery butter in 1047, the South only produced 170.200,000 pounds, or 13 per cent. Of the nation's pro-1 duction of 93:1.800,000 pounds of cheese in 1947, the South only produced 168,180,000 pout^-, or 17 per cent. The state of Minne sota alone produced 30 per cent more creamery butter than all sixteen Southern states combin-j ed. The state of Wisconsin pro duced 145 per cent more cheese than all sixteen Southern states combined. All these things mean, of course, that the South is im porting great quantities of dairy products which it should be pro ducing. There is one important aspect of this comparison of dairying in the South and in the nation that ( should be pointed out. The South i actually contains 32 per cent of the nation's dairy cows, almost its full share on a population -I area basis, but the average milk production of these cows is 35 per cent less than the average, for the nation, and accordingly, the value of the South’s dairy cows is only 23 per cent of the nation’s total. Dairying is a! full-time, year-round occupation, and requires conscientious care and attention; dairying is not at all like raising a crop of cotton or tobacco. The South could add greatly to its welfare in every way by paying more time and attention to the dairy industry. Hog prices will be supported at 90 per cent of parity through March, 1950, when the usual marketing season for 1949 spring pigs ends. MILITARY RITES FOR G. C. HOLMAN (Continued trnm Pace It tiers of the Ashe Post 171 of the American Legion will conduct military services at the grave. ! He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Willie Lee Holman: bne son, Roland; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. S. Holman; five brothers, Iloficr, Freeman, Greer, Jess ind Joe Holman and five sister-; Mrs. Mable Wilcox, Mrs. C! f '<ir i Wilcox, Mrs. Benny Wi!> ■ ^ Mrs. Edgar Prince and M. p Mary Nell Holman. CHURCHES TO HAVE EASTER SERVICES (i' rntinu-: d f: aan page 1) the V•unty are planning special Easter services. There will be ,ni rial Easter services Sunday at the Glendale Springs, Miller. >nd Bethel Presbyterian church es. Ralph Buchanan will conduct the speeial Easter communion service at the Lansing Presby terian church Sunday morning and also the service at the Fos ter Memorial church Sunday af ternoon. Many of the Sunday school groups will have egg hunts Jur e.g the week end. COUNTY FARMERS USE PM A PROGRAM (Continued from page 1' vendors for their splendid co operation. Much of the credljj for the success of the paste:" program is due the vendors f jr the outstanding job they have done in filling purchase orders," Mr. Campbell said. Tobacco growers are reminded that May 1st is the closing date for division and combinations of tobacco farms. SWANSON EDWARDS DIES IN LENOIR (Continued from page 11 bel Wilson, of Boone. Surviving in addition to his parents and wife are two chil dren. Barbara and Melba Joyce Edwards and two brothers. Joe and Lawson Edwards. Todd. CARD OF THANKS We wish to thank all of our friends and neighbors in both Ashe and Watauga counties for the kindness they have shown us during the sickness and death of our husband and father, L. A, Milam. Also thanks for the flor al tributes. Mrs. L. A. Milam and family. For Salt1 Four complete booths for restaurant. Also one match ing counter, eleven feet long. Herman Haire West Jefferson, N. Lockard And Trihlde Plumbing and Heating Call Us For Free Estimates PIIONE 70 F-12 H°x 217 WEST JEFFERSON, N. C.