Long-Time Agricultural Adjustment By GUY A. CARDWKLL Some refer to recent national agri cultural planning as evolution, other* as revolution?you can take your choice?at least I am sure that all can agree that we are on our way; and if I read the signs correctly, we will never return to the point from which we started. Extension Division News, Virginia' Polytechnic Institute, May issue, car-1 ries a lengthy prticle, ? Long-Time | Agricultural Adjustment," by Dr. H. R. Tolley, of the Agricultural Adjust ment Administration. While the in formation in this article is intensely interesting, coming as it does from the administration, 1 doubt that it will i be read by many people in is present | form. 1 am, therefore, breaking up; "this lung courage reading by people"who should , take the time to inform themselves as "to changes that have been brought a-1 bout in the national farming system i and present plans of the Triple ?A for the future of agriculture in this na tion. The following is by Dr. Tollcy: | 1 shall not recount step by step our j drive for agricultural adjustment to date. I do want, however, to try with ! broad strokes, to draw the whole pic ture together. The main fact is that we had to get some 40,000,000 acres of land retired from production, and * that we are now m the midst of iorceii j emergency maneuvers to that end. j' During the World War some 50, 000,000 acres in Europe, not counting RuSsia, went out of cultivation. The United States brought about 40,000,- j 000 more acres into cultivation and i' geared up its whole farm plant into a higher production. After the war we' kept it up. We kept on farming as if j there were still great hungry foreign ; ity, such markets were rapidly dwind ling. TTie" world owed us money- we would not accept goods in return. With our tariff wall as it was, and still is. the only way we ie taken out of commercial, competi tive production, under the voluntary allotment method, farm hy farm, pro rata, by the end of this year. That is a tremendous amount of land to take out of use. Forty-three million acres is considerably more than the area of Illinois, ft i> almost one-eighth of all the cultivated land the United States. J^'ow, suppose wt have by the end of this year reaclo~ ?d our goal; suppose we have 43,000, XX) acres taken out of the crops 1 have named, taken out in tieids, strips, and patches all over the country. Dis [Ha cement T* on the basi's of wherever those crops happened to be growing when we launched allotment cam paigns. If all these campaigns suc irtd, we shall experience a ipcusr a hie' re! te f iron* IrtiA ami 4an? ( gt-r of agricultural surpluses. But we shall still he a long way from mak ing the wisest use of oUr land. Our efforts toward land retirement thus far have hern necessarily an emergency drive to get out a certain proportion of certain crops through* put the country, regardless of whether any given part of the country ought to he growing more or less of the crop in question. Allotted withdraw al* under the pfei>eilt system tend to proceed, crop by crop, without due re gard?for?correct?farm?management inter-relations, on farms, and by reg iumL^AVc have made a good begin ning, but in so doing, we have plainly let ourselves in for a much longer and much harder job. That is the way of progress. Our largely successful scramble to take out land in patches," and to organize farmers for controlled production is stimulating n great deal of new?thinking. It is nfaking our farmers think in terms of fanning to gether. not against one another. ' It is creating a multitude of new situa-" lions which force us all, as never be fore, to think hard and fast. We can't sit around just as we used to and con template the dream of a land in order, wisely used, fcvery (fay we are do ing something which makes it more imperative tliat we think ahead of the Ktap?? nf agricultural rcorgani ration and set up a permanent land [>rograinNtiL^tlie--long pull. ' V Wilkes f armers Dl&giffg Silos to Aid Dairying Wilkes farmers report a Rood flow r?f sourwood nectar, a wonderful corn crop, and plans for (Iirrhik more trench silo.s to aid the dairy indus try. t CHARGE TO CHUB 1 Williamstcm AB R H PO A E i Earp, ss 4 1 2 3 1 0 , Gaylord. If * 0 1 2 0 0 * iT. Good mo n, lb 4 2 2 7 0 0 Brake, rf 5 1 7 i ? ? I Uiile. c 3 0 19 12 r | Herring." cf 3 0 2 10 0 , ' Brogden, 3b 3 0 0 0 2 0 'Anderson, 2b <00140 Gtddjr, p 1 0 J } J ??. ' Kugler, p 2 0 0 0 1 ^ ? xGardner ? 1 0 0 0 0 ^ Total* - M 1 10 24 9 3 xBatted for Kugler in 9th. E. City AB A H PO A E .Foreman, ss ? 4 1 1 1 1 0 ' Fearing. rf * }- ' ~ - !| }J i Johnson, 3b 3 10 1 3 0 Goodman, If 4 2 2 3 1 0 Welch. r( 3 1 1 0 0 Griffith, lb HI 0 14 0 Hall, c ? -311211 Sawyer, 2b ? ? 4 10 113 1 Levann, p 0 0 0 0 1 0 Lunak.p 2 0 4 4 3 0 Totals 30 8 7 27 14 2 I Score by innings * Williamston 301 000 000-4 H. C ity 302 210 00*?8 j I Summary: Kuns batted in, Brake, ll'zzle (2), C. Goodman (5). Three base hit. Brake. Home run, C. Good 'man (2) Sacrifice hits, Gaylord, iJohnson. Stolen bases, Brake, I ear ing Welch. 1-eft on bases, Williams ton 9, Klizabeth City 7. Double plays, Anderson to Earp to 1. G00-*" 'moll, C. Goodman to Johnson, Lunak i to Hall lo Giiffilh, C. Goodman tn Griffith, llils off Gaddy, 3 in 2 1-3 innings (1 out in 3rd); off Kugler, 4 Ml 5 2-3 innings off Levann. 4 in *2-3 inning (2 out in 1st); off Lunak, 0 in ? 1-3 innings. Winning pitcher, Lunak. Losing pitcher. Gaddy. Struck out, by Gaddy 2. by Kugler 7, by Levann 0, by Lunak 1. Base on balls, off Gaddy 3, off Kugler 3, off Levant! 1, off Lunka 4. Hit by pitch er, Welch u 11, Windsor 0. Saturday, July 28 Williamston 3, Elisabeth City 2.. Plymouth 5, Ahoskie 3. Windsor forfeited to Kdenton. (iames were rained out yesterday. STANDINGS W. L. Pet. Kdcnton 10 1 .909 Plymouth ? I V t .900 Willianiston 4 7 .364 Aho.sfcie 2 9 .182 t WHERE THEY PLAY j TUESDAY, JULY 31at Ahoskie at WUliamiton. Plymouth at Edcnton. WEDNESDAY. AUOUST lat Edcnton at WUUamaton. at . THURSDAY, AUOUST 2nd WUUamston at Edanton. Ahoakia at Plymouth FRIDAY, AUGUST 3rd Wllllamaton at Plymouth. Edenton at Ahoakia. SATURDAY. AUOUST 4th Plymouth at Wllliamaton. Ahoakia at Edanton. Gt-^aAt MODERN REFRIGERATION FOR THE FARM AT ONCY A FEW CENTS A DAY iu. HUNT . ELECTROLUX Now On Display at Bus Station, Williafnston J. L. PEEL AND H.M.BRITT AGENTS SAVE OUR AUTOMOBILES By Hairy Gander son * There has been lots to say about the above statement. It is one of the I most serjous problems confronting this State; it is at this time staring each and everyone oir us squarely in , the face. Only through the most honest and sincere cooperation of every single citizen in this State, in every walk of life, can the answer j to that statement be realized. In view of the *fact that I only have such a limited space in which to express myself, I shall at this time apologize 1 for the briefness of an article on such ' an important subject. Now?please ! I don't feel offended, if through my . ' ,.r ai_:_ ? i_ I pen any part of this article steps on your toes. One rttever knows just 1 | how close a fatality resulting from an 1 automobile accident may come to his heart. j The first move is to positively en force the present laws thit have al ready been written in our law books. Mow thift-r-an he dnn?? immediately? every law-enforcing officer must "crack down" on every law-offender. I have just this moment finished read ing "The Motor Vehicle Uws?of North Carolina" and find that even if the present laws were abided by, these most disastrous conditions would not prevail. You must do your part if the goal is to be rearhed. Make Survey of Traffic Conditions I take the liberty to suggest to our illustrious Governor of North Caro lina that he appoint a committee of five men who would be quite capable of making a careful survey of traffic (embracing I the highway, the driver, the vehicle) and make a report to the Governor | who would in turn make his recom mendations at the convening of our next Legislature?as to the consolida tion and revision of the present laws and drawing 'of the new laws which I shall suggest now. State-Wide Drivers Permit i The inexperienced driver is a real menace. Unfortunately, only a few towns in this State demand its driv ing citizens to have a driying permit Even if all cities and towns did de mand a driver's license, that would still leave out our large population of folks who live in the rural sections | of this State. Now what this State J needs is a law which would demand ( of every person over sixteen years of age who wished to driv a car?to ' undergo a rigid test as to his quali- ! fVcations, both mental and physical. ? He must -be thoroughly competent; j otherwise he is not allowed to take the wheel. Remember, it is human failure as well as nieclianicat failure ? that causes our highway tragedies. There are more than 23,000,000 auto- J mobile* in the country at this time j and with our highways and city streets so congested with traffic, in- , experienced drivers are just a menace to mankind. Everyone of you read-! ers will agree with me that this fast I moving civilization demands the above law to fit the times. Vehicle Education In High Schoola Now don't choke on this?because 1 know that it does sound like quite an advance theory. We all know ihat rhildr#*n like to drive. These youngs Ur? who don't start before the age of sixteen usually hare the whole hearted support of their folks to dftive on from their sixteenth birthday. Why not inject into our regular school curricular, during the last thirty days of the graduating class, a regular period for the education of every pu pil as to how to properly drive and take care of an automobile. Although ' the following words are a parody, there is quite k bit of truth in them, "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." In my opinion, as this mankind progresses in civiliza tion, we will all follow that parody more and more in word and spirit. There are many educational methods that would be highly successful at this time among the present drfvers. During this "drivers' school," it would be a wonderful time to im press upon them that one of the big gest causes of accidents are careless nss. We must now stop?hesitate and think for a moment; "just to save ' a minute it may cost a life or maybe j six months in bed." Yest we forget, this "drivers' school" would teach tlnjn the laws; as it 4s quite vital, due to the fact they all plead ignorance. Thorough Mechanical Examination Defective mechanical equipment plays an important part in about flf teen to twenty per cent of our motor vehicle d&iths and in nearly every case these defects exist in antiquated cars or are due to neglect in upkeep. There is no doubt but that that con dition can positively be remedied. Just as long as a driver does his part there isn't much 'chance of crashing in a well conditioned automobile. Now don't misunderstand me and think that we can immediately get to a point when we will not hare any more accident*; but there is one sore thing; we can improre conditions which will have * tendency to lower the death rate. Methods very similar to this one which is about to follow are being used successfully in other states throughout the Union. Make it law that every automobile be ex amined quarterly (four times a year) for all the important mechanical parts including the lights, tires, brakes, steering apparatus, gears, etc. The system to be used is quite simple and could be executed to the highest ef ficiency; the law to be so far-reaching that it would not do for an automo bile to be on the highways without the necessary identifications to show that it has been examined for the new incoming quarter. State Highway Safety Commission In order to kee? ?? close watch over our traffic conditions, we should let that be taken care of by a permanent State Highway Safety Commission within our State Police Patrol and State Highway Commission combin ed. This commission would also have* the specific duty of carefully watching the changing highway traf fic conditions and corfect deficiencies accordingly. (Personally I don't Want to be tiring when wr reach the state of perfection but we can al ways make improvements). And last but not least is the ex pense of executing the above under takings; if ever enacted into law. Well, just off-hanfff l suggest that it could directly be paid for through the "automobile driver's license" fee. And by the way, wouldn't you rather pay to live than lose and die? It is up to youl .7 ~ ?-?"7 attain f l HAST AMAZING moof ever known of EXIRG TRMIION *NN NON-SKID SAFETY UP ... UP ... UP ... to 14,000 feet above sea-level! 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