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Editor ? 1908 1938 ?
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7 iiesclnt. lrt>ruars 20. 1940.
Cire Tin* Farmer* 4 Chance
Plans are underway to alter the Agricultural
Administration Act as it relates to planned to
bacco production, and it is well that these plans
be considered. But in altering the act, remem
ber the farmers and give them an even chance
?One propose! change calls for a long-time or
long-range program. Word comes from Wash
ington that few or no law-makers are in favor
of establishing a program of more than three
years' duration. Possibly the three-year program
...;n b. itn.rlh rniiritlliaii iho one-year plan now
in effect. But there is every reason to believe
that a five-yar plan holds more hope for the
tobacco farmer than the three-year plan
The buying companies state that they have so
"many years' supply ot tobacco on hand. If this
is true, and there is no reason to question the
honesty of the buying companies, then a three
year program will hardly more than bring pro
duction and consumption into balance. It is
reasonable to believe that a five-year program
woiild balance supply and demand and give the
growers a two-year period to test the program
on anything like an even basis with the buying
companies
There's no longer even a desire on the part of
tne larmer to demand a lilty-cent average for
his tobacco, but there is very good reason for
him to seek and even demand a living price for
his tobacco.
With the control program running an irreg
ular course in years past, its merits could not
be definitely determined. Now that there is
seen a great need for altering the rules and rg
ulations let the change be made with the view
of giving the program an opportunity to deter
mine its merits.
Hold In Their Act*
Parking in the paths of local school children,
liquor drinkers unmindful of the law prohibit
ing public drinking and showing utter disregard
for decency are becoming more bold in their
acts.
Picking up a fourth liquor bottle left along
the school sidewalk the night before, an of
ficial in the school said that the bottle ui itself
is bad enough but the indifference and attitude
expressed in the act are worse.
Antidote For Lynching
Just as the law has failed to eheek the increase
in crime, so will the proposed anti-lynching bill
fail to check lynching. Even though the law has
failed in its designed purpose, no one is in fa
vor of repealing those laws that tend to promote
safety for life, limb and property.
The crime figures clearly prove that the law
will continue to fail in its purpose just as long
as the home continues to turn out half-baked
and crude raw products l.ynrhings, regardless
of Gavagan bills and laws, will continue as long
as the courts fail to function properly regardless
of station, creed or color.
The failure of the courts in their task has
caused the people to take the law into their own
hands.
As for spite against the South, those guys
working for the pa-sage of the anti-lynching
hill should remember that the struggle ended
with the surrender of General Lee at Appoma
tox seventy-five years ago.
U ine Move
Marshvillr Home.
If the Washington Merry -Go-Round story Of
last week is accurate as to the reason for the
mysterious cancellation of Coughlin's Sunday
radio address, then the Catholic Church in Am
erica is to be congratulated.
The Church has quite rightly leaned over
backward in its efforts not to interfere with
the fellow's legitimate right of free opinion
and free speech in politics. He has the civil
right to advocate any form of social order which
seems to him desirable, including Communism
or Fascism. And he even has the civil right to
preach racial hatred. The radio ruling ? which
curiously enough, has never been applied to
him that controversial subjects must be dis
cussed only when the other side is provided with
an opportunity for rebuttal, seems to us a very
fair one. But under the Bill of Rights, a man
+tm*4~have -the right to say what seems to us to
be damnable or free speech ceases to exist.
But in relation to the Church, he certainly
has no right to preach racial hatred and to de
fend Christian Fronts, which propose to put
racial hatred into practice by lorce. Speaking
in his capacity as priest, he inevitably produces
the impression in many minds that his position
is the Catholic position. That he has convinced
many ignorant Catholics on that point is indi
cated by the Merry-Go-Round's statement that
the Catholic authorities hesitated to discipline
him because of the fear that it would set off a
siIumii in tin Church. And it is common knowl
edge that many Protestants, hitherto friendly
to the Church, have been increasingly bitter
about the matter.
The Church serves itself and all it stands for
well when it moves to make it unmistakably
clear that it will not stand for the fellow preach
ing his poison in the role of priest.
Moving
??
News and Observer.
Because Southern land has been worn to in
fertility, the Russell Sage Foundation has is
sued the prediction that millions of people (from
1.500.000 to 6.000.000 in the Southern cotton
belt alone) will be forced to leave their native
acres in migration to other sections of the coun
try where there may be more hope than home
for them.
This year we may have lost the British to
bacco buying. More disturbing in all the years
past we have too often been selling the British
and other buyers of cotton and tobacco the fer
tility of the soil along with the crops. We can
live without the British but we cannot live well
or long without preserving the soils from which
our sustenance comes.
HINTS FOR
HOMEMAKERS
By Mia PHYLLIS OWEN. Hoar
Service Director. Virgiala Electric
And Fewer Company
February is a month of entertain
ing. usually, though Lent starting so
early this year may slow it down
some However, with George Wash
ington's birthday ami Leap Year to
furnish the reason why?there will
be some.
A hot cup of coffee, and the color
ful dishes predominate, such as
2 tbsp plain gelatine
1 cup cold water
1 cup boiling water
1-2 cup sugar
1 cup cold cherry juice
1 cup cooked red pitted cherries
(drained)
2 tablespoons lemon juice
Let gelatine soak in the cold wa
ter, add boiling water and sugar; stir
until dissolved Add remaining in
gredients, let chill until thickened,
then fold over and over to distribute
the cherries. Pour Into moulds, let
chill until firm; unmould, and dec
orate with spun sugar or with sweet
ened whipped cream put through a
pastry tube.
Fronted Maraschino Pie
Pie Filling
1 cup sugar
1-2 cup cornstarch
2 cups boiling water
1 teaspoon butter
2 3-ounce bottles maraschino cher
ries
8 tablespoons lemon juice
About 1 teaspoon red coloring li
quid
Sift sugar and cornstarch together,
add boiling water, stir and cook un
til thickened and thoroughly cooked,
remove from the fire, add butler,
stir well, add maraschino cherries
cut in pieces, and the juice^ also the
lemon juice and coloring; mix well
and when cold, pour into baked pas
try shell, and cover with boiled
frosting
soiled
1 cup sugar
1 tsp white corn syrup
1-2 cup water
2 egg whites
1-2 tsp vanilla
Add sugar and eorn syrup to the
water and cook carefully to 244 deg.
Fah , when it spins a thread an inch
long. Pour in a thin stream into the
egg whites, beaten stiff, while con
tinuing to beat them Beat until cold,
flavor, and spread over the cold pie
filling. Decorate the top with cock
tail cherries and pieces cut from
green gumdrops. Serve within three
or four hours after making the pie.
Cianbeny Bavarian Cream
1 package lemon gelatin
3-4 cup hot water
_ l-2.ciip ice cubes ynd water
2 cups thick sweetened cranberry
juice
1 tbsp lemon juice
Melt the lemon-flavored gelatin in
hot water, add ice and water, lemon
juice, then strained cranberry sauce.
Add about one inch of this to a dec
orative mold. Allow this to jelly and
rest and to become cold and syrupy.
Place over cracked ice or ice cubes
and water, then beat until thick and
all bubbles are small Add to the
clear jelly, then chill until firm. Un
fold on a larger platter, decorate
around edge with holly. Serve with
foamy mint sauce, or flavored,
sweetened whipped cream tinted a
delicate green. Serves 8 to 10.
Froaen Cranberry Shortcake
1 pint cranberries
1-2 cup water
1 cup sugar
1-2 tsp grated orange rind
2 eggs
2 tbsp honey
1 tbsp vanilla
1 cup whipping cream
Dash of salt
To prepare cranberry layer, sim
mer cranberries and water togeth
er, strain, then add sugar and orange
rind. Chill. When cold beat in yolk
of one egg, then fold in one beaten
egg white into which has been beat
en one tablespoon of sugar.
To prepare the cream layer, beat
other egg white until stiff, add one
goun^^ugai^Beateggyoll^vith
honey and vanilla. Beat cream until
thick but not stiff, then fold all to
gether i ? \
To combine the slioit cake, hne
dessert freezing tray with a long
strip of waxed paper, allowing one
inch to extend over each end of the
tray. Fit into the tray a slice of
sponge cake 1-4 inch thick, add the
jellied cranberry and finally cream
mixture.
Freeze with temperature selector
at No. 1; when frozen, reset at No.
3.
To serve lift from the tray by the
waxed paper, then cut into squares.
Serves 6 to 8.
ADMINISTRATOR S NOTICE
Having this day qualified as ad
ministrator of the estate of Maggie
Dickens, deceased, this is to notify
all persons having claims against said
estate to present them to the under
signed within one year from the
date of this notice, or this notice will
be pleaded in bar of any recovery.
All persons indebted to said estate
will please make immediate pay
ment.
This the 26th day of January, 1940.
ELISHIA DICKENS.
R F.D, Robersonville.
Administrator of the estate
j30-6t of Maggie Dickens, deceased
ADMINISTRATRIX NOTICE
North Carolina Martin County.
Having qualified as administratrix
of the estate of C. A Harrison, de
ceased, this is to notify all persons
having claims against the said estate
to exhibit them to the undersigned
wihin twelve months from the date
of this notice or this notice will be
pleaded in bar of any recovery. All
persons indebted to the said estate
will please make immediate pay
ment to the undersigned.
This the 19th day of Feb., 1940.
MRS LOSS IE A HARRISON.
Administratrix of the estate of
f20-6t C. A. Harrison, diseased.
NOTICE OF SALE
By virtue of that Deed of Trust
executed By Lucy Moore to the un
dersigned, dated May 6, 1939, re
corded in Book X-3, page 233 of the
Martin County Public Registry, and
at the request of the holder of the
note of indebtedness thereby secur
ed, default having been made
the payment thereof. I will, on the
OTW~ ? ttMfl?r.t I
8lh day of March, T940.aM2o*cIock
Noon, at the courthoii>e door in Mar
tin County offer for sale at public
auction for cash the property de
scribed in said deed of trust as fol
lows
Beginning on the J a mesville
Plymouth Highway at the Northeast
corner of William Keys' lot. thence
South along William Keys' lot. 1,089
feet to S. R Coburn's line, thence
East along S. R. Coburn's line 100
feet to a stake, thence North paral
lel with the first line 1,089 feet to
the Jamesville-PJymouth Highway,
they along said highway 100 feet to
the beginning.
This the 6th day of February, 1940
W H COBURN,
f 13-4t Trustee.
NOTICE
Nortfr
TheT5uperior Court.
County of Martin Against C<
Purvis, Jr., of wife,
Purvis, Noah Purvis and wife, Ser
rissa Purvis, Carrie Purvis Or
mand and husband. Goler Ormand,
Arthur Purvis, Florence P. Wil
Hants and husband, Wil
Hams, Nancy P. Peyton and bus
band, Peyton. Wheeler
Purvis, Evie Purvis Davis and hus
band, Davis.
The defendants, Noah Purvis and
wife, Serrissa Purvis, Arthur Pur
vis, Florence P. Williams and hus
band, Williams, Nancy P.
Peyton and husband, Pey
ton, Wheeler Purvis Fvw? Purvis Da -
vis and husband, Davis,
above named, will take notice that
an action entitled as above has been
commenced in the Superior Court of
Martin County, North Carolina, to
foreclose the taxes on land in Mar
tin County in which said defendants
have an interest; and the said defen
dants will further take notice that
they are required to appear before L.
B. Wynne. Clerk of the Superior
Court of Martin County at his office
in Williamston, North Carolina,
within thirty (30) days after the
completion of this service of publi
cation by notice and to answer or de
mur to the complaint of the plaintiff
in this action, or the plaintiff will ap
ply to the Court for the relief de
manded in said complaint.
This the 12th day of Feb., 1940.
L. B. WYNNE,
fl3-4t Clerk Superior Court
ofMartinCounty
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Arrivals
In
DRESSES ? COATS ? SUITS
MILLINERY AND SHOES
Suggests everything that is new and re
freshing for the coining season.
COATS And SUITS
Ah featured hy Swunsdown, an featured
in Vogue, G
Madamoiselle.
DRESSES
in Vogue, Good Housekeeping and
Madamoiaelle.
By Dorris I)odson, Mary Muffet and
Others.
SHOES
By Selby and Pari* Fashion.
411 Thai I* IS'etr For The Spring And Eattrr .Season,
You'll Find Hero In A Wide Variety.
Htwfdis Bwikw
Let Every Dollar
Spread Its Wings
'T'HE money you tun ||iould
* be apportioned* io that
every dollar work* for you, and
with you. Let a few cent* go
for clothe*, a few for rent, and
a few for entertainment, but
SAVE as much aa you can, as
often aa you can, and as re
gularly a* you can. Then you
will acquire the POWER of
independence.
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branch Banking & Trust Co.
"THE SAFE EXECUTOR"
WILLIAMSTON, N. C