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Tuesday. February 27, 1940.
.4 C.ostly Practice
The practice of using poor seed in starting
their sweet potatoes in years past has cost Mar
tin County farmers many dollars, and as the
time approaches for starting another crop it
seems that the growers could do no better than
to use certified seed. It has been said that Mar
tin farmers, in numerous instances, use for seed
those potatoes that would not measure up to
market requirements, caring little about the
threat of disease and paying little attention to
methods for the control of black rot and other
diseases common 10 the crop. *
Possibly Martin County farmers have the
reputation of producing one of the best sweet
potatoes in the country. Several buyers estab
lishing packing stations in the county last De
cember in anticipation of handling a record crop
and one of quality. Early deliveries proved dis
appointing and during a greater part of the sea
son the market merely dragged along. One of
the buyers withdrew from the market, and far
mers have had to solicit a market for themselves
in many cases.
Black rot or disease in some other form was
reported in possibly nine out of every ten crops
offered for sale. Improper harvesting and cur
ine aggrayatecL the situation, and on an average
less than fifty per cent of the crop measured up
to government standards
It would seem that farmers would recognize
the facts and take steps to correct the costly
practices in producing sweet potatoes and oth- _
er crops, too. But it has been said that many far
mers at the beginning of a new season will take
their seed from diseased stock, plant potatoes
on diseased land and then throw up their hands
in despair when they find black rot and other
diseases in their potatoes at marketing time.
In a revised farmers bulletin, No. 714, the
United States Department of Agriculture offers
-a solution, a partial one at least, to the prob
lem taused by disease. These bulletins may be
had from the department in Washington City,
or they may be had through the office of the
county agent.
A Bad Example
It is quite a puzzle to understand how youths
do as well as they do after they are exposed to
the habits, patterns and examples set by the old
sters.
Much is said about the virtues and the value
of good examples for youth to follow, but there
is an apparent hesitancy on the part of the adult
to set the good examples when those examples
interfere with his pleasure or cramp his style.
Recently a goodly number of Boy Scouts met
with their fathers and ffiends in a banquet
hall. A leader of boys called attention to the ab
sence of coffee on the menu. "It isn't good for
growing boys, you know," the leader said. While
that leader was talking about what was good
for the boys, several oldsters puffed cigarettes
and cigars, the smoke drifting up the noses and
into the eyes of the boys. A little later the lead
er himself carried on a conversation with anoth
er leader before the nearly 100 youths while
the main speaker of the evening offered a stir
ring appeal to the youths.
It is a common practice with many to point
out the virtues, but when it cramps our style to
set the good example for the youth to follow
we merely forget the obligation and turn and
criticise the youth for picking up our bad ha
bits.
A Baffling War
N Prior to the outbreak of the European war
last September, little boys and old men, too,
raked and pulled from the junk piles nearly
every available piece of scrap iron for shipment
to the munition centers of the world. Since the
war started in Europe, the market for scrap
iron has almost petered out.
Orders lor food and feed stuffs are not up to
expectations, indicating that the plans call for
starvation rather thn fun-fire ittirhi
Little fighting is reporting where the "big"
war is supposed to be centered, but over tnEng
i no war has been declared, thousands
H"? a baffling war, all right.
V
Delinquent Youth
Few things have a more tragic appearance
than a school with a large number of broken
window panes, and the aad part about it is the
fact that often the father of the delinquent
youth who throws stones through windows is
the fellow who kicks and raises the very debbil
about the taxes that are levied to keep school
windows and other school property in a state
of repair.
Just a short time ago several youths, dis
gruntled because they were denied access to
a basketball court in a county school building,
bombarded the school with bricks and broke
an even dozen window lights. Such revolts are
not limited to the one school; similar ones have
been reported in other schools in this county
where a thoughtless youth asserted itself in
the face of kindly counsel offered by teachers
and others
If the youths of this county were denied the
right to an education and they bombarded the
school property ,then the action could be re
garded as encouraging. There has been a day
when youth was denied an education. There has
been a day when youth was housed in crude
buildings without a glass window to let in the
bright sunlight. The youth of that day had his
eye fixed on a definite goal, and there was lit
tle time for side-line activities. Today there is
the modern plant and a liberal schedule for
sports and plan, but the restless youth is not sat
isfied. He plays the role of the delinquent and
stoops to a cowardly act.
Beginnings Of Modern Marriages
Washington Daily Newi.
It may or may not throw some light on the
outcomes of some marriages, and perhaps to
point a moral, to read the following statistics
on the subject reaching this paper yesterday.
By far the most marriage proposals are now
made outside the girl's home, probably in some
automobile, the Institute ot Family Relations
deduces from a study of 1,181 proposals.
Dr. Paul Popenoe. general director of the in
stitute, concluded:
"Modern homes are small or lack privacy.
The automobile gives the couple a chance to
be alone. Hence 25 per cent of the proposals
were made in the car and only 23 per cent in
the-girl's home."
Besides the automobile proposals were list
ed these others outside the home:
20 per cent in streets, parks, campuses, res
taurants or other public places.
13 per cent on vacation or while traveling.
10 per cent at parties, dinners, dances.
6 per cent by letter or wire. ?
3 per cent miscellaneous.
Dr. Popenoe contended the average man's
proposal technique is disgraceful:
"A common performance, it appears, is for
the young couple to be looking into a furniture
store window when the man inquires, 'How
about you and me fixing up a little love nest,
huh?'"
One man proposed as his girl, frightened by a
rattlesnake in the path, stepped back into his
arms. Another propose^ after he had finished
a slab of gooseberry pie at a picnic and was in
troduced to the girl who made it.
"A third popped the question to a young
teacher when he heard that a school near his
ranch was vacant. He wrote urging her to ap
ply for the position, adding that if she got it
he would be very glad to wed.
"Even on vacations or at resorts, where there
is every opportunity to choose an appropriate
setting, many men do not do so.
"One man proposed in a swimming pool, an
other at a soda fountain, a third on a railway
station platform and a fourth while strolling in
a cemetery."
English Taste
Charlotte News.
Harry Hopkins predicts that England will
go back to buying American tobacco in a short
while. And it appears thathe may be right.
Reasons for the English withdrawal from the
market, with resulting disaster to Carolina to
bacco growers, were two: (1 she wanted to con
serve her buying power in this country to pay
for warplanes, etc.; and (2> she wanted to ce
ment her ties with Turkey by providing a mar
ket for the tobacco which that country had for
merly sold to Germany.
But, as has happened before, the Tory Gov
ernment seems to have reckoned without the
English people.
Most of the cheap cigarettes favored by the
Englishman in the street have been made out
of so-called "Virginia bright leaf"?in reality
produced mainly in North Carolina. Moreover,"
Englishmen are great pipe smokers, and like a
fairly light tobacco made from a mixture of
American bright leaf and burley. But Turkish
tobacco is generally dark and heavy, and the
lower grades are only a little less godawful
than the fearsome black tow smoked by the
common Frenchmen or the soggy hay the Ger
mans get. The Englishman emphatically does
not like it.
Before the war is much older the Germans
may be ordered to smoke scrap paper, and if
they are there is no doubt that they will duti
fully obey. But an Englishman is no German.
What he doesn't like he waxes vocal and angry
about And that fact may be the salvation of
the Tar Heels In the eastern part of the state.
Driving speed should always be slow enough
so that the car can be brought to a full stop with
in the distance illuminated by the headlights.
Thursday Friday Saturday
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