Every-Day Life In
England Described
By Native Recently
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Visiting in this country not so
long ago, Mrs. L. K. Elmhirst, ot
Totnes, England, vividly described
the problems of every-day life back
home.
The third in her descriptive ser
ies follows:
Morale
Often I used to ask myself, "How
can the people, month after month,
go on living as they do, sleeping ev
ery night in their clothes, coming
out in the morning to find no water
in their part of London, no gas, per
haps no home at all, and, in addition
to the physical hardship, bearing the
heavy weight of anxiety for those
they love?the anxiety that never
lets up. What is it that keeps their
hearts high and their courage un
daunted?" And I came to feel that
perhaps there are four factors in the
situation that helped to make up
the answer.
The first, of course, is the leader
ship of Winston Churchill which has
been an incalculable strength
The second is difficult to describe
It is strength of another kind that
comes from the unity of people who
go through great tribulation togeth
er. At such a time new power is
bom through companionship. Peo
ple discover in themselves and in
their friends new qualities that they
did not know existed before. To
gether they support, sustain and re
new one another. Each knows that
he will never let down his friend
and that his friend will never let
him down. The competitive element
in life seems to disappear altogeth
er and something sweeps in to take
its place?the intense desire to help
one another. You cannot come into
contact with a group of people who
have been through great danger and
privation together without feeling
at once a sense of oneness that lifts
the heart of all those who exper
ience it. It is perhaps one of the
happiest experiences that human be
ings can ever know.
The third factor whien has en
abled English people to go through
great hardship with a high heart is
a quality in themselves which is pe
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Paris Housewives Wait for Meager Food Ration
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After two years of Hitler domination, this picture made in Paris shows French housewives standing in
line outside a dairy to receive their meager ration of food. Although the store advertises butter, cheese
and eggs, there is none to be had by these women. The tins exhibited in the shop window are empty.
The milkman carries away the empty milk cans which are placed there by order of the ruling Germans.
New Sub Slides Down the Ways
More trouble is in store for the Axis as this U. S. sub is launched at a
shipyard somewhere along the east coast. The new underwater fighter
was christened the Gurnard by Suzanne Slingluff, daughter of Com
mander Frank Slingluff. II- S. N retired After a ?hakednu'n cruise the
sub will be ready to tn! ? ??U of Axis shipping.
culiarly English. The Englishman, as
you know, has always appeared to
be a rather casual person, easy-go
ing, indifferent, never showing much
interest in anything, nor much en
thusiasm, and apparently never tak-.j
ing anything seriously. And always,
he is given to understatement. These
qualities, of course, can be a great
weakness but in times of emergency
they are also a great strength. They
are evidence of a balanced tempera
ment. In moments of great stress the
average Englishman will remain
cool and collected, he will crack
jokes and he will always understate
his own difficulties. Anyone today
who talks too much about his mis
fortunes is known as a "bomb bore".
Any one is careful to avoid these
individuals and not to fall into the
same category oneself. I remember
my own experience after a rather
bad night. I was eager to tell my
story to everyone I saw the; follow
ing day but the first person who
came into my room the next morn
ing took the wind out of my sails by
saying in a very casual offhand way,
"It was a bit noisy last night, wasn't
it?" That was all. After that I could
not toll my story and I didn't want
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Speaks at Graduation
Pictured addressing the graduating
class at West Point is (Jen. (Jeorge
C. Marshall, ti. S. Army Chief of
Stair, lie predicted that American
)'(lier? will again land in Franco
'?1 said that the strength of the
S, Army will reach 4,500,000 by
the end of the year.
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to. And everywhere throughout
London this became the current
phrase. Even - though your street
might have been demolished you
would only say "Yes, it was rather
noisy," or "He gave us a packet last
night." Nothing more than this. And
in the shelters when the bombers
were overhead you would see the
people shrtig their shoulders and
say, in a half-bored way, "Oh, there
is Jerry again"?Jerry being a term
for the raiders, half humorous, half
derisive, showing that one did not
take them too seriously. Every day
one would hear stories that would il
lustrate this quality of understate
ment and humor. Rescue squads who
had been working for hours to reach
a man buried under his house, not
knowing if they would find him
alive, finally reached him and
brought him out. His only comment
was "Thank you, I had a little dust
in my eyes." And today, everywhere
you go in London, you will see signs
and notices written up to make you
laugh?written up over the ruins. A
"Barber shop which had been badly
battered put out a sign saying "Close
Shave." And in another place, where
a determined lady had put up a no
tice over her dilapidated shop win
dow "Open As Usual," someone had
come along and put a sign up next
door where a shop had once stood
but where nothing now remained,
saying, "More Open Than Usual."'
And so it is everywhere in London.
And one knows that the spirit which
can laugh at disaster is the spirit
that will never go down to defeat.
The fourth factor is perhaps the
most important of all. It is the sense
that this war is different from any
war in the past. We know in England
that this is not a war for territory,
"for agrandizement, nor for Empire.
People in England feel instinctive
ly that it is a kind of ultimate strug
gle between two ways of life, be
tween two types of civilization, be
tween the slave peoples of the world
Farmers To Receive
Wheat Market Cards
North Carolina wheat producers
soon will receive marketing quota
cards for selling their 1942 crop, it
was announced today by E. Y. Floyd,
AAA executive assistant at N. C.
State College.
AAA offices in wheat producing
counties have received instructions
for distributing cards to those grow
ers who have complied with provi
;ions of the marketing quota law,
and these cards should be in the
hands of farmers within a few days,
he said.
Marketing provisions this year re
main substantially the same as last
year. Wheat producers may market
without penalty the actual or norm
al yield from their allotted acreage.
Excess wheat, unless stored under
bond, is subject to a penalty of 57
cents per bushel, which is one-half
of the national average loan rate,
as provided by law. Marketing quo
tas were approved by the nation's
wheat farmers in a referendum held
May 2nd.
As a move to conserve tires and
gasoline, fanners this year will be
permitted to obtain their marketing
cards by mail. Mr Floyd pointed out.
Instructions have been sent to coun
ty AAA offices, and fin ma fui tli
procedure will be forwarded to |
wheat producers.
In view of the large surplus of
wheat on hand, Mr. Floyd said, both |
farm and elevator storage will be
available to producers of the state
this year. Details of the storage plan!
now are being worked out, and will |
he announced at an early date.
Wheat produced under provisions
of the AAA program may be stored
in government-approved warehouses
or farm storage bins and the produc
er is eligible for a loan of $1.37 per
and the free. It is a great civil war |
which engulfs the whole world, be
tween the forces of democracy who
respect and believe in the individ
ual, and the forces of dictatorship
who believe in power for themselves
and in the enslavement of human
beings. We realize that all the values
of life which are d< ar to us, the free
dom of the human spirit, the whole
structure of democracy based on
justice, law, tolerance, mercy, trust
and all the humanitarian virtues, are
in danger, perhaps for the first time,
of being completely extinguished
should Hitler win the war. For we
know now that Hitler is determined
to rule and govern the entire world.
And in his world there would be no
place for our values of life.
We feel, moreover, that we have
reached perhaps the end of a certain
period in history, and that at such a
time we are doomed to these terri
ble convulsions and cataclysms be
cause we put up so much resistance
to moving into the next pattern of
history. Perhaps we are at the end
of a period that we might call com
petitive nationalism, in which the
whole world is broken up into sov
ereign competing states, and that
unless we can move into a great uni
fication of the world we are doomed
to disaster. Must the world be united
only under a dictator or can it be
united under a more democratic,
more international order? How can ?
we avoi4 this choice? Perhaps this j
is the greatest moral crisis that man- J
kind has ever faced and a choice
which no man and no nation can re
fuse to make.
Finally, we have felt in Britain
that we were not fighting for Britain
alone. My eldest son, who has been
in the RAF since the beginning of the
war, had to fly the other day over a
city in Holland, so low that he could
see people in the street. He could see
the change that came over them
when they realized that this was an
English plane?how they looked up
to him and raised their arms in sup
plication -4?s he flew over. And con
tinuously men are escaping from
Norway and other countries and
coming across to England in little i
boats. They come always with the|
same story?with the story of what
has happened to their own countries
?a story of such cruelty and horror
that sometimes, in self-protection,
the human mind refuses to take it
in. They always say the same thing
?they say "You must save us. We
have come to fight with you. You
must deliver us from the body of this
death. For our life today is only a
death for us." And so we feel that we
have been fighting right along to
release enslaved people all over the
world and to maintain still in the
world the democratic values of life
which are more dear to us than life
itself.
Grow Nitrogen With
Interplanted Crops
Here's a suggestion from a group
of North Carolina farmers, passed
along to other Tar Heel farmers by
E. R Collins, Extension Service
agronomy leader of N. C. State Col
lege:
Velvet beans and cow peas inter-1
planted with corn will "grow nitro-1
gen" this summer to overcome the |
war-time shortage of nitrates which j
is almost certain to become more I
serious by 1943. Where the vegeta
tion from these two legumes is turn- I
ed back into the soil, the nitrogen
I equivalent of the velvet beans or
cow peas will bo about 250 to 300
pounds of nitrate of soda per ton of
vegetation.
Dr. Collins reports that there are
several thousand bushels of cow pea
seed, and a considerable amount of
velvet bean seed, for sale in the
state. Forward-looking farmers have
been buying these seeds to inter
plant in their corn.
The Extension agronomist says
velvet beans can be planted in the
corn when the corn is knee high.
Velvet beans vary considerably in
their percentage of germination from
year to year, and it usually is wise
to have a germination test made on
the seed by the State Seed Labora
| tory in Raleigh. Usually, however,
| velvet beans are planted three to
four feet apart in the row. Where
the germination is low, it is neccs
Isary to plant at a higher rate or
| space closer in the row.
Cow peas can be sown down the
row at the rate of approximately a
peck per acre just before laying by
the corn. The cow peas can be pick
ed next fall and used as food for
home consumption. Both the cow
peas and the velvet beans planted in
i the corn will increase the grazing
I value of the land next fall.
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Visits in Wilmington
Miss Lorone Weaver spent the
week-end in Wilmington with
friends.
bushel for No. 2 wheat. Lower rates
will prevail for corresponding low
er grades. North Carolina's loan rate I
is higher than the national average, |
Mr. Floyd said, because of a freight I
differential. The loans are available J
through December 31, 1942, and will
mature on demand, but not later than I
April 30, 1942. I
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Cited for Heroism
C. P. Phonrphoto
Lieut. lister O. Wood, of Annapo
lis, Md., was cited by the Navy for
heroism and seamanship during a
Japanese raid on i'ort Darwin,
Australia. Lieut. Wood saved a blaz
ing aircraft tender by masterly sea
manship, using guns salvaged from
destroyed aircraft to fight off the
Nipponese attackers.
A large Mid-West creamery is em
ploying women drivers on milk
routes in Wichita, Kansas, and Lin- j
coin, Nebraska, on an experimental ,
basis, with results so far entirely
satisfactory.
Interesting Bits Of
Business In the VS.
Two "Generals" come up with re
ports that indicate Uncle Sam's pro
duction soldiers are consistently go
ing over the top. General M' t. re
ported to the "Production for Vic
tory" troop of newsmen that a ma
jority of the machines it used to em
ploy making autos and household
appliances had moved into war pro
duction at such a rate that it has
doubled its total production in the
six months since Pearl H?*fbor . . .
An electric manufacturing company
celebrated Maritime Day by ship
ping the first cargo ship turbine
from a new inland turbine plant that
was completed two months ahead of
schedule?and whose early comple
tion means its total production for
the year wilL be one-third greater
than originall^ scheduled . . . Henri
Kusji, priority expert of WPB, told
a New York commercial and indus
trial round table that the list of 400
consumer goods recently excluded
from use of steel or iron may soon
be lengthened to include 1,000 items
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