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Question Now Is How To Get Out Of ^ar^e \reIn Kvm (lounlrt in the W orld Ik Hrarl Over HeeU in Rurope'v War By GERALD W. JOHNSON The slogan. "Keep America Out of the War " sounds fine, but it is pret ty much lik? shouting. "Keep Roost velt Out of the White House." The trouble is, Roosevelt has been there 1 for some time- and America has been j in this war right up to the neck since it started What the shouters mean, of course, is "Keep Our Troops Out of Europe." which may. or may not. be a good slogan If it interferes in any way with a better slogan, to wit. "Keep European Troops Out o 1 America.- then it is not good at all If it does not interfere, it is all right But at this moment no man is wise enough to sav definitely where we are going to come out AH we know "* is that, along with the rest of the | world, we are losing money at a ter rific rate, and shall be lucky if we: lose nothing but money. ?fp-hr-t-rueY--to--be sure, that some of.; our people are picking, lip a good deal of European money during the fra- | cas. but How good is it" At present. ! it is good enough to pass, and that is enough for the first man who gets it n? can convert it promptly into American money, and he will be all right; hut it is hi?lijy_jrc?hablt' that someone will be stuck with it in the end When the products of men's labor and skill are being burn ed up at a frightful rate Mr A and Mr B may be getting richer and richer, but mankind isn't getting richer; and when the world is grow ing poorer it is a practical certainty that every nation, certainly every j large nation, in it is soon going to, feel the pinch. Life is already harder in the United ! States on account of this wai When! thousands, perhaps tens of thous ands. of cigarette smokers are being i killed every day. the potential mar- 1 ket for American tobacco farmers is ,? steadily shrinking.. As a matter of' fact, that market has already crash ed. owing to the withdrawal of the British purchasers Moreover , every monetary system in the world is already shot so full of holes that it will probably take a generation for economists and fis cal experts to piece together a fair ly workable system after the war. That will he true, no matter who wins This war is worse, in-that''re spect . fects of the last tine had not been repaired when tlnv one broke out. Germany, Russia and Italy all wen operating on a makeshift barter basis, and nt> great country was employing -a?gold?currency when?t+rr?storm j burst That was 21 years after fir- i ing had ceased It will take longer, after this war. to rig up a passable I international monetary system. That this will have a violet effect on business within the United States is as plain us a pike-staff 'We tun stand il. no doubt. In tact, we've darn well got to stand it. for the fat is in the fire now But it will require both endurance and ingenuity, and it will not he pleasant Oh. yes. .we are in tin war. all \ right Every country in the world is in it. in the sense that every country | is poorer, and will live harder, and will have to rack its brains to make ends meet on account of this war I It's silly to talk about staying out, when we art- ready in; all that is worth discussing- is how to cut our losses in such a way as to salvage what we can. It is possible of course, that the decision may already he out of our hands. We may not have time to create a great arnvy and navy. If Hitler wins at all, he will win quick -He may?win this?summer.?rrr which case our future policy...will-be. determined by der Fuhrcr rather than by Congress But in any event, it /s high time for Americans to get one fact firm ly fixed in their minds which is that it is no longer a question of keeping out of the war. but of getting out of a war we are already in with the smallest possible further loss. I hope that that will not involve shipping troops to Europe: but it is fatuous for men in public life at this time to declare flatly that this country will, or will not. do anything. This coun try is going to try to protect itself; and it will do anything that seems necessary to accomplish that purpose One Hundred Ask Free Mattresses More than one hundred suh-mar ginal farmery CT tenants with low incomes in this county have applied for surplus cotton and ticking (or the manufacture of mattresses It is possible that more than twelve bales of cotton will be used in this county in the manufacture of mattresses, and it is likely that many more will ap ply (or the free material and booy the cotton consumption (urther. " Any person who derives a greater part o( his income from the farm and who meets certain requirements, is eligible to participate in the free dis tribution of cotton and ticking Fifty pounds of cotton are allotted each successful applicant., The mattresses will be made by the applicants at a place to be desig ated. au nated, and the work will be1-super vised by a member of the county ex tension service, possibly Mils Lora E. Sleeper, who in expected home shortly from an sxtensive vacation in New England. During the maan Ums gddiuaigi applications win be" i seehrad by the county agent's of fice. Ike actual manufacture of the mattresses will get underway some time in late July or aarly August. Local Happenings 46 Years Ago in the Martin County Sun From a scrapbook kept by Mrs C D Carstarphen and her mother, the following items are copied a$ they appeared in H J Herrick's "Martin County Sun." a newspaper publish ed here in 1894 County Sheriff?Joseph R Lanier. Treasurer?S R Biggs Superior Court Clerk?W T Craw ford Register of Deeds?J. A Teel. Surveyor?Sylvester Peel Commissioners?S D. Ward, chair nran. J A Everett. R L Roberson. M T Eagan W A Haislip Board of Education?J. T Waldo, chairman. S W Outerbridgt. Levi Fagan Superintendent of Public Instruc tion- Rev T B Haughton nf ? Br W H Barrel I. Town Miiyr.r?A M Smith TW?rk-r-A. Anderson Constable?J. L Harrell Commissioners?Di W H. Har relT. Latham Throwei, B. F. Godwin, A Anderson. M II Rhodes ?mats? "? Northern and Southern mails ar rive at 7:50 p m and close at 7:00 a in. Churches M E. Church. South?Rev. J. R. i Sawyer. Pastor. Services every first and third Sunday at 11 a m and 7 prm. Prayer meeftfig every Wednesr-i day night. Sunday school at 9:30 a I rn. J T Deans, supt Baptist Church?Rev. E. J. Ed wards. Pastor. Preaching every sec ond and fourth Sunday at 11 a. m. i and 7:30 p. m Prayer meeting every Thursday night. Sunday school at 9 a. m Protestant Episcopal Church?Rev. I T B Haughton. Rector Services ev ery Sunday except the third Sun da> Sunday school at 9 a. m. Societies Sicewarkee Lodge. No. 90. A F & A M Regular communications ev ery second and fourth Tuesday eve nings at Masonic Hall ' Roanoke Lodge, No. 89, 1 O. O F. \ ?Regular meetings every Thursday evening at Odd Fellows Hall. Conoho Lodge, Knights of Honor Meets every first and third Friday! evening at Carstarphen's Hall. Dic tator. Eli Gurgantis, Reported. W IL Carstarphen, Jr Pulp Industry To Conserve Forests Following the great expansion in the South of the pulp and paper industry the leaders in the movement recognized that a program to con serve and develop the region's sup ply of timber was essential. Most of the mills purchased large holdings of timberland and straightway began to handle them according to the best methods of forest management. That these fee lands, handled for the per petual production of timber, will themselves be a great asset to the South is clear To date more than in pulp mill .ownership. But only a portion of the pulpwood used by the southern industry comes from company owned lands. This means that the industry must at tempt to spread the practice of for estry to millions of acres of non com pany land from which pulpwood is cut To this end flu- Southern Pulp wood Conservation Association was formed This association, supported by three-fourths of the pulp mills in the South, has as its specific ob jective The development of the South'* timber resources for the ben efit of both landowned and indus ti y. ? With the advice of re present atives of-'slate and federal forest services a conservation program was adopted. An integral part of this program is a set of forest practice rules to be used when cutting timber for pulpwood. These rules recognize that selective cutting is the most desirable meth od of cutting pulpwood. When se leitive cutting is practiced, from 4 to ft y??#?ri tr?>e?y ps?r prra ^irss lnft to reforest the cutover area No trees stump are cut except for. lhinning j or in removing undesirable trees. Although selective cutting is ad vocated by the Association as the proper method of cutting pulpwood. j many landowners prefer to use the seed tree method. When seed trees are left standing, however, they are j frequently later cut for some use oth er than pulpwood such as sawlogs. fuel or cross ties. As a means of call ing particular attention to seed trees the members of the Southern Pulp wood Conservation Association are experimenting with the use of 800,000 tags The;*' tags, made of weather resistant cardboard, bear the inscrip tion: "Seed Tree. Left to reforest th*s land for future income. Please do not cut. Southern Pulpwood Con servation Association." One tag is attached to each seed tree. It is hoped that landowners will realize from these tags that the protection of seed trees is essential if their lands are ever to grow more timber. The Southern Pulpwood Conserva tion Association urges landowners throughout the South to "Cut Con servatively. Prevent Fires, end Grow More Timber." IWill Pre ten I Pageant At Maple drove Church The Willing Workers Council ol Zions Chapel Churcht of Christ will present i pageant, "Life's Cross roads," at Maple Grove Church ol Christ Sunday evening at 8 o'clock The public is cordially invited to attend. Industrialized Tvpe Of Farming Forcing Fanners Off Land Wore Than Million and Half Fewer Farmer* Needed Today Washington, D. C.?Testifying be fore the LaFollette Committee which reopened its gearings on the Asso ciated Farmers to hear evidence from government experts, Secrtarjr Wal lace told the committee that the de i velopment of "a large-scale, indus trialized type of agriculture" is forc ing several hundred thousand small farmers off the land Wallace stated that "the working farm population is now growing at 1 the rate of 455,000 a year" even though 1,600,000 fewer persons are needed as compared with 10 years ago, as a result of labor-saving de velopments. The result has been thai "thousands of farm families have taken to the road as migrant agri cultural workers" and "many other smatt fanners arc still fighting* to keep a precarious foothold on the land " i Not only arc mc tamuy-sizca iar [ fliers being driven off the land and into the ranks of migratory work ers. but the evidence presented to the ' committee shows that once they be come landless, migratory workers, i they are treated like wild and dan-1 gerous animals when they apply for farm work at these very industrial ized farms which drive them out of commercial production In comment ing on the treatment of these migrant families, the council for social action! of the congressional and Christian churches recently asked, "Did it ad-' vance democracy to treat the mi grants like cattle, to break up their meetings, to beat up their leaders?" Evidence presented to the LaFol lette committee shows that the large scale corporations, qanners, packers, and industrialized farms, have form ed "front" organizations which pose as small farmer organizations but which fight the battle of the corpora tions to hold down wages and fur ther increase their competitive ad vantages. These corporations enlist some small and medium-sized far mers to office their front organiza tions while the corporations supply the necessary finances. jne Associated f armers oi Cali fornia, the front organization investi gated by the LaFollette committee, was found to get more than 40 per cent of its funds from processor and distributor interests. On two occasions the Associated Farmers received nation-wide no turiety. Thefirst instance was in the Salinas Valley, September, 1936, when it entered into a 4abor dispute on the side of the companies which pack and market a large proportion of all the lettuce grown in the CQUn iry. it tunica the alspuie into a pitched battle in the strees of Salinas, and he evidence shows that all of the techniques of industrial warfare were used?tear and sickening gas, armed strike-guards, deputized vi gilantes, and detective agency strike guards. One of the leaders of the dep utized vigilantes was the chairman of the Labor Relations Committee of the Associated Farmers. Again in April, 1937, in the Sac ramento Valley in California, the As sociated Farmers entered a dispute between four canneries and 1,100 cannery workers. The president of the Associated Farmers led an army equipped with pick handles, and rioting ensued in which 58 persons were injured Ked Uover Adapted To Eastern Section An old-time forage crop, red clov er, may soon find favor with Eastern North Carolina farmers, says E. C. Blair, agronomist of the N. C. State College Extension Service. Although a standard crop in the mountain counties, red clover was thought to be unadapted to the part of the State east of Raleigh. Howev er. J. B. Patrick, of Beaufort Coun ty has exploded that belief. In the fall of 1938. Mr. Patrick pre pared a seed bed on one acre of good TancT and appTTed~ltme and fertilizer according to the directions of Farm Agent W. LrMcciahey. Then he sow - ed a mixture of red clover and oats. This mixture produced a good crop of hay in June, 1939. Although that was the last of the oats, the red clover lived on and made another crop in August Blair said Mr. Patrick allowed this crop to ripen seed before he harvest ed it. Before feeding the hay to live stock, he used a pitchfork to beat out the seed. Through this method, he obtained enough seed to sow eight acres in the fall of last year Meanwhile, the original acre of red clover lived on. and in March of this year it was topdressed with stable manure. During the middle of May, Mr. Patrick cut two tons of excel lent hay from this acre. Since remov ing the hay, he has topdressed the field again, this time using hog lot manure. He expects to get more cut ting! of hay from the field this year. "According to this experience," Blair stated, "red clover can be made a good sideline hay and grazing crop in Eastern North Carolina. It re quires a fertile soil, which must also be fairly heavy but well-drained. Lime in most ctie# and always lib eral applications of phosphate and potash are required." If Wwt County Farmer* Are Vaccinating Hog* A number nf Warren County far. mers are vaccinating their hogs as a precautionary measure against cholera which has been prevalent nearby, reports R. S. Smith, assist ant farm agent. SCOTTS SCRAP BOOK R-J SCOTT A f n,(& WOOP oaoWtP *<0 -f* OAH* ? ?* CASfLt YtlXowyfeNt., - JliMU ft<RlFltP M A. YkAJlt <IMl ' s Mo^ PE* ?*K >r A. IUUM DOrrtfT, KDR AJlMLISi PIASOMS -fc WRrffc wr(S . 4-4 Owner Of Lumber Company Issue* Statement Here Today In a brief but sincere statement issued today following the costly fire that wrecked his plant last Tuesday, Mr. J McKimmon Saun ders, owner of the Saunders and Cox Lumber Company, expressed his great appreciation for the work done by the members of the local fire department and others who so will ingly helped during the trying hour when thousands of dollars worth of property went up in smoke. "Realizing now how quickly the fire spread all over the building. I believe the local firemen did as well and as much as any fire department in the state could have done, and if there had been a dozen fire depart - I ments on the scene no more could have been done to save the mill and confine the fire than was done." Mr. Saunders added. Nine Cases Placed On Docket Uj> Until Early This Morning (Continued from page one) ed to answer in the case charging him with breaking into the home of Mr. and Mrs. B E. Anderson in Rob ersonville on April 13 Mobley was placed under a $150 bond at a justice of the peace hearing. Guy Rollins, colored, faces a ra ttier serious charge growing out of an attempt to kill John Robert Law rence,. colored, in the Spring. Green community about the middle of last March. Rollins is alleged to have shot and critically wounded Lawrence. Rex Whitehead is charged with "committing incest by having carnal knowledge of his own daughter, Ma rie Whitehead, and did beget her with child which was born on May 30. 1940." Unable to raise bond in the sum of $1,000, the Jamesville Town ship colored man continues in the county jail where he preaches until the early hours of the morning, and he is loud in his declarations, accord ing to Charles James, who lives half a block away. Thelma Whitfield, Negro boy, ias charged with assaulting Emilee An thony. the latter being under 15 years of age. o Goodman Predicts ?% est Farm Week Present indications point to a rec ord-smashing enrollment at this year's Farm and Home Week, to be held at State College, July 29-Au gust 2, announces John W. Goodman, assistant director of the State College Extension Service. Their attendance at these annual events always far outdistanced by women, men delegates will have their strength bolstered this year by county and community AAA com mitteemen who will attend the con vention. Goodman pointed out that all of North Carolina's 100 county commit tees, composed of three men each, have been scheduled to attend. In ad dition, one delegate from each town ship committee will be present. This should assure at least 1,200 farmers in attendance at the convention. Or dinarily, from 1,200 to 1,500 farm women register for the event. Plans for the week are now near ing completion, Goodman said. Sub jects of interest to both men and women will be taken up during joint sessions of the two groups, whilff separate sessions will be held for other topics. In addition to the educational side of the program, a full schedule of entertainment and recreation have been planned for the delegates. Tours, contests, games, group sing ing, square dancing, and other light er features will serve to enliven the program. As has been the custom for the past three years, Governor and Mrs. Clyde Hoey will appear on the Thursday, August 1, night program. Other than these two, there will be no speakers scheduled foe the evening recreation al periods. Rooms will b provided in State College dormitories, and meals will be served in the college cafeteria. ? Mrs Thelma Jones has returned to her home here on East Main Street from a Rocky Mount hospi tal where she has been undergoing treatment for several weeks. Miss Kitty Mitchell is recovering from an appendicitis operation per formed in a Roanoke Rapids hospi tal last night. Bill Watts and Julian Roebuck will attend the June German in Rocky Mount tonight. Mrs. FDR's Refugee A refugee from Poland, Janina, Dy wwska, 16, has been "adopted" by Mri. Franklin D. Roosevelt, wife of the President, under the Foster Parents' Plan for War Children. The First Lady will bear part of the coet of the refugee's support and education. Fire Damage Is Not As I^arge As First Estimate Indicated (Continued from page one) Sparrow, millwright, and his assist ant. Walter Rarr were painfully burned about the face and arms anc that Mr. Sparrow barely escaped with his life from a burning pit, and that it was only through the daring efforts of Mr. Barr that he was not burned to death. The two men were in a pit repair trig an endless chain. They were us ing a red-hot poker in the repair op eration and a flake from the pokei fell into the oil-soaked sawdust and the fire blazed up, one report stat ing that with in three minutes it wai burning over one entire end of th< two-story mill. Several people passed the plan' and saw no fire, but before the) could drive up town, the fire alarn had been sounded and the fire-fight ing equipment was moving out. The fire was described as the mot costly since the old Brick Ware house burned down here about 11 years ago. 1\tanfeo Expecting 100,000 Visitors Matneo?A more colorful islant village will greet the 100,000 visitor expected here this summer for th< 353rd anniversary celebrataion of th< founding of the Roanoke Island col onies and the birth of Virginia Dan can soil?and the fourth season o: Paul Green's historical drama "Thi Lost Colony" which opens June 29th Many new cotlages and hotel: have gone up since the close of las year's celebration, and the toll of I disastrous fire to Manteo's busines: district has brought a boom of con struction. Visitors to the Lost Colonj County will recognize certain land marks in this little island capital, bu the changes have made everythini more colorful and quaint The traveler, whether he comes bj his own auto or by bus, will find thi highways and roads along the Vir ginia Dare Trail in full bloom oi spring and summer flowers. The fol lage is heavy and scented, makinj this country an Inspiring spot for th? vacationer and traveler seeking new fields to conquer. Magnolias, crepi myrtle, japonicas and gardenias an In bloom everywhere. In addition to this panorama ol natural beauty, the visitor will ridi into land rich in lore, romance anc adventure. Birthplace of the Natior ?featuring a complete 18th centurj village of rough-hewn juniper logi and thatched roofs, and the Lost Col onista live again at old Fort Raleigh Across Roanoke Sound?Birthplace of Aviation?where the Wright Bro thers made history. More than a quarter million per sons from all sections of the countr) have made a pilgrimage to this dou bly historic birthplace since the na tives of Roanoke Island marked th< 350th anniversary of th% heroic ex production of Paul Green's magnifi cent epic, "The Loat Colony." "nu historical drama has received nation wide praise because of its intrinsic beauty and educational significance Woman Badly Hurt In Auto Accident Mildred Howell. Gold Point Ne gress. was painfully but not serious ly injured Saturday evening around 10:30 when she was run down by James Joshua Meeks, also colored Her injuries were first thought to be critical, but an examination re vealed a fracture of the left leg and lacerations about the body The accident occurred in front of Lunwood Johnson's store Meeks, said to be traveling at a fast rate of speed, failed to make a curve and ran off the road into the colored woman. "| Meeks was arrested on charges of excessive speed and assault and for criminal negligence for operating without brakes. He was jailed but has since been released under a $500 bond. He will be tried in the county recorder's court, June 24th. c. jTsawyer, m. d. WINDSOR, N. C. Practice I limited To Eye. Ear, Nose and Throat. 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