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por PA' nun nut i ?in.y nnrnp nr Minrs" run ufi-uocno or mu iliffililil ttieip Win 1 i my ooeny .v v c NSimlTED Y TOO Bonds! lor 4 Co- -,-nO J eed deav- r.aa Slate 6 ra Mr. Par;e Issues Striking Resume cf Wheat Situation nad Invites Patriots to Forswear TJse of Wheat Products for Benefit cf I' irhters Until Next Harvest. Raleigh. Ctato Food Administrator Henry A. Pag9 has Issued a striking resume of the food situation confronting this country, and its Allies and w.th it an invitation to the people of North Carolina, as many cf them as circumstances- will permit, to join tho "honor roll" by chin? up the use of wheat products altogether until tho ne::t harvest for the benefit of our army and the armies and civilian population of our Allies. Mr. Page's statement makes good reading: It is as follows: A little more than a month ago we took stock of our wheat supply in this country and found that wo had slightly moro than one hundred millioi? bushels, just enough to fully feed our soldiers and our Allies in war-swept Europe until the next harvest, or, not quite, but nearly, enough to supply bread for our own people for the four months until the next crop comes in, On the basis cf cur normal pre-war consumption. Tha Situation a Month Ago. Up to thi3 time ths Food Administration's policy had been to limit the Shipment overseas to the exact amount we were able to savo from our normal consumption by methods and policies of conservation. But now wo fln ourselves up against it hard. Clearly our soldiers must be well fed. Clearly our Allies in the midst of war's horrors must have at lsast half rations. To meet this imperative need, upon which hangs the result cf tha war and consequently the destiny of nations, we, here at hone, must cut our con sumption of wheat products in half. And even this sacrifice would enable us to send onr own soldiers and friends on the Cling lire only half the quantity Of wheat they neod. This was the prcblam that facad u3 a month ago. "What should we dc about it? Will our people chance their habits cf living, their usual food, pake the sacrifice? Can they come to realize that government by tho people in tha earth dnonds upon bread? It was dee-id t3 sot app.rt half the visiWo supply of wheat for shipment to Europe aid to undertake to go: th? inlVrrmlirn over to our own people so that they would understand the necessity for porsorvd sacrifico, and maybe we might be able to increase our sh'ipmetns .to two-thirds or three-fourths ot tha real need abroad. Sacrifice C riled For. There are mcny peopls in thin country who lave r.ot eaten ono single bis cuit or a morsel cf wheat bread this year. They are the men and women whose personal war ocnj-ciou-ni'.-cs g"."i-r. them trouble when they fi'lljthem aelve3 in the sight of a hungry world. It isn't just exactly comfortable, is it, to eat the last morsel upon which is fastened the longing eye of a famishing dog? Eut this is. not a matter of dogs, but rather of grief -burdens Jwomen, Innocent little children, and tho fighters in fhc trenches. The wonder is that more of us are not disturbed as we go our usual easy way, feeding our bodies beyond their real need with the one Saod the whole devastated world of war So badly need3; just because it is easier to procuro and prepare than soma substitute. Many cf tho best hotels have voluntarily f greed to serve no wheat pro ducts until the next harvest. Many families In this country are dchv? th same thing. It is easy enough for well-to-do people of more than average in telligence to get on just about a3 well without wheat flour a3 with it. Some of the substitutes, such as rice flour, cost more than wheat Hour, and to pra pare palatable and wholesome bread3, using the substitutes only, calls fcr a larger expenditure of forethought and care as well as money. Mayba it would be unwise for people of small earning capacity, and thcuo vhof.e time Is pretty fully occupied, to undertake to get on onrirely withvt wheat flour. Eut I am sure there are dozens of hctel-j in North Carolina with wll trained cooks whose patrons would net suffer fcr lack of broad or bteenit if dihg'.juco and ingenuity I3 exercised' in tho Held cf mufrins", cakes and corn dodgers. The Patrctio Course. ITow many, families are there in this slate, that, with the expenditure of it little more time end may he a little more money, can live just as well with out as with wheat flour? Just a little more time in the kitchen, madam; feme serious study of "Aunt Jeniirnr.'n Recipes," a larger l:ivr.vl''dc3 of tho values 6f foods; will net hurt any of us at any time, and in war times will he espc. cially valuable. And as to tho 'slightly increased money erst, (ren errl rr I. tin writing to the well-to-do (net that part of our people who faca poverty and need) what boots it if we spend a little more 1o properly feed orrsjives when the primary result is to feed cur fighters and onr friends, end the helpleE all over the world? It Is going to take all the money we'vo rot to win tft's war; It ought 'to fake the surplus first. V7he:i the war is won and the world may turn away from it3 horrors, ycu and I will ha very happy if e have lest ncthhig mere valuable than our money! Think cf it, nsn, ycu ccuW then enjoy over again the delight in having saved your first hundred dollara! The Personal Appeal. How many of 113, fo situated, will cut cut wheat flow entirely until the next harvest? V7e have the honor roll ready fcr your name. May we have four ried-T? HEXP.Y A. PAGE, Food Administrator. Ealeigh, N. C, April 27. 1323. 71 y v9 ? 4y - Win tKe Waf. You. are backin: up our Gcvemnicnt.' Y&vl are backing v.p our boys in the trendies, Ysie are protetin our owr; Libert; and' Kcod business invesiment. v . . . . ... .T : . .1 ; , - v . - - -.-.I. ?. . v.-: . ' -. : ..?...'.,'.'( v.', 4 . - V .'',' '. '.,.V ',-,' Vf- S . " -,' . t-.'!, v life " J f lf1li iLvery man must know that you cannot carry on any ' enter prise without money. Today our country is at war for its very ex istencc with a power ful enemy. Ve will win, hut the TASK is ..a.-'Gigantic'one, and our Nation NEEDS MONEY.' Lots of it Billions of it. We have the mahef You have some of it ) LEXD IT TO YOUR iOlTUY. Biy Liberty Bonds m WAKE UP Hundreds of thousands ol the youth and strength cl our Country are now in tins war and mere pre fo follow. These men are willing to. give their lives for their ij Country; what are you willing to giver . Are you willing to give up a few of your pleasmes and extrav-.i-int hdf.its and ccone:ni:d;-i and put that money into Lib-jity iendsi' Nothing you can do is of such vital iniporinnce ri.c:ht now, as I'.cying Liberty Bondr. The vtry evistcnee oi' our Country", our Country, doptnds iicn cery single I one of us?, and ihere is no possible t xc r.ee fcr anyone not to r.ay down ior it, you can buy on the weekly mnal rnent pay merit plan. Yon can r-ariiy.yive up a icvv of your pleas.HriS and extnn-ogant lfcl--jis ?nd pny fcr , .j Libeny Bond. You should do it you know yi u should, 1 .v j tt Aon er $1,000 $5,000 $10,000. . : Figure out the amount of monev you have and can save; and come into our Bank now RIGHT NOW and buy your Liberty Bonds. llGIiif nifaoy : You are not giving away or spend ing This money. You are: SAVING IT for your family and pourself. Liberty Bonds are the safest investment in the whole world;' the7 are backed bv the entire resources of the If. United States, and they pay you interest at 4, 1-4 per j com. half yearly. 01 As Great Ivlilitaiy Kecsssity as Cannon ;nd Shells iood Administrator Pago's Attitudo. Raleigh. The food situr.tfoa in England and France: has beccmo ro ecute that unquestionahly waite wheat flour is a3 grrat a nr.iitary i:r;-r ri3 can non and shell.?. The tread ration cf the French rnd Italian soldiers who rrs fighting shoulder to shoulder with our own Leys has already hean reduced to a considerate est 3 at. ar.d rh eld rsen, -.vomen and tho little cbiiurcti of France, England 3 ad Italy ar onlf'iiig 0 nexesedinsiy sLort ration?. I tho face of this situation, v.:o Food Adrainistratica which sometime aeo requested that all sarins wheat in the hands of wheat '..rowers nhouid be marketed by May 1, 13 making plans for more drasiie course to be followed in the case of those fens era who for unpatriotic or pro-Germrn motives fail to market their wheat within something like a specified time. A list of such farmers will be prepared after May .l, and shortly after that date machinery will be set in motion for the carrying cut of tho courts determined upon by the Food Administration. North Carolina farmers, according to a resume in a recent iasua cf the , Literary Digest, have h:on receiving a considerably higher figure per burdiol fcr wheat than Vcn farmers of any ether state, the average orico in this state having been 2.31 per Lurhel aa against $2.24 in Tennessee, which was Vbe next highest state, ai!d aiainst t2.03 for tho whole country. Food Admin istrator Henry A. Page is uniiuesticnably to be thanked bv the farmers of torth Carolina for this differ 3:1 ee as it waa through his activity and demands the smaller naiss of tho r'ate vere left unrestricted as to the price they tt pay for local wheat, while the nails of 73 barrels cays city or mor and .smaJler mills working unci or agreement with the Grain Corporator ar.d I ring their wheat from cuislrto the state have net been allowed to pay than around $2.12 10 52.13 per bushel. This has meant, of course, that 'cully the entire wheat crop of North Carolina has been sold to the r mills at pries 3 considerably higher en an avorego than tho larger re paying for wheat secured from other r-.eei io;n. Page is hopeful that it will r.r-t bj n.jcosF.ary to make a single so;;:ure vin North Carolina, etpi-cially since th smaller mills cf the stato aro much higher fiture for wheat than the Grain Corporation will i? is' commandeered, tho presumption bt-ing. of ccurse. that wheat that. 1 leered will be paid for-at the rate tint the krjer mill? ae allowed ocal wheat around $2.12 to 2.15 par bushel, certainly net highor ell-known fact, of course, that the u?e of wheat cr rye as feed s regarded as wilfal wast.? and is punishuble under Section 4 Utrol Law by a fine of $5,CC0 or two years imprisonment or both. Ml North Carolina,' Wash "i?toi Co amy, In the bt.i'v;iicr Ci-un, Lclorc the Clerk. John L. Kopcr Lumber Company ct als,' vs. E. L. IiciTinrtc'?' and ethers. Nrthan C. Rerringion, fc'lia L Her ruu;tcn, Louis K. iiti rii-tcu, James .. Herriiuri'iii, Maivin L. iit-ninyton, Clarence . Ilii Li'ioi,, E. S. tKou'ni nnH Phi! in idr.ur.t ;-H taiie notice that an. action a-i entilleJ abovu hts been i Y commenced u the ujierior L'o'.ncoiJ ,! Vashiir;i : i Ciur.'.v, ii. t ., icr the es- j U C 4 T .0 "5 America what 'Washington County tablishnioi:! c t V. ; st:i;Lien County j :z Ovrinnor: Fisiiici Mmi:L-cr 6 y;fer chau-1 s PLUS C0TT0NS2ED SHOULD 5E WARETSD. e Food Administration has inf-jrmallon that ii thore Is no lata necessitate the roniantiig of cotlcn there will be a censid ottonseed loft in hands ;f the cotton planters in tbe stato season. Inasmuch as cottonseed haj; r.mimed a rlaeo cf nportance from a food &ad ford statu! 1 o nt, the Food ing every farmer who has any surplus of ccUoncrrfi at e to the nearest oil mill as soon an be ia satir ucd that h hem for roplrr.ting. Itenac-i e'tcnsoF cil a:i the basis hsolutely dominating the f-).-.rt -j.u' oil m'.rkals of the meal is increasing in pcpularici' and importacco as a COV" toe- rth CAMPAIGN VAS A GREAT r.UCCr33. campaign put on by the Food Adm.'cl.strators ic The Carolina at tin r-nuest 'ccessfu! to 8 mnrhi d hels of pot2'.Oo.i in 1: ..pen 00 Caroli.ia and u.VMo. tcers a:;:! c'cV.' r-j ; campa'gr.' in r.'r.r :i 4 and thouf aj.d.-; 'tates. :f Foci ');. Tli! d? of th 1'V.' 1" c 1 ', Administrator re v"!3 a ruir 2 p:u.iuc:;r:- in ahov; nr rmil a-i.i -h- -.Vc3t-1 'I- c- si.rr-' ;. in this :e '3 ci r.ctaL;"jy tjft ter 442 ci Ire Fimjc ?ws ol ...:- and A,T.r;nd.-r:.-ntr., hi v. -hlcn ihc sr. id de end.- J ants re t-.ir:?it:; !:i '.'.. i.. 'n rorraiii- i j der. in c-naiu -i:r.o-: cHi!--:."ca in inn; r U'lulllWi i.- V 1 tn. ....... .'. ,'. WW acie distric'r, r.nd r:e, ihcretore, j)rj-)ir .arties thereto ; J-..t U e said, dcl'end an's will i'urL;er t:;!'.e TM.ii-.o il;at thev arc requii rd tu tppr.-r.r Lv.ii re the d.Ieri; j of the' SiiTifior Court dV&hiMCon hi e'ounty, at Plymouth, K. C, on i c Kith clay of "Ma v, I'JIS. and h!,sw.jr or demur to tne comoiaiui in saia action or tne Over tlx re in France our boys are going over the parapet, giving their lives . to the cause. 3 Ivone or them r.re sr.vn'ii', "i w-nt over last month; that's enough," or "I'll wait ysnd sec 1 whether ilghi totiav' . Th'cy are giving lite itself and ungrudgiiigly, so that yen and I and all 'cf ti-j can live in freedom. . IJ plaintiff v. ili anpiy to the cour t fcr the relief dcrr.amk'd in r-rJd complaint. This lli.hd.'v (,t April, l!il.. , ' C. V. W. AUrirCN, C let k hvje: ior Com t. NOTICE GFSIjKHOKS . North Car.Vrv.' v?hinicn Coun'-y- in Superior Court. Lizzie Silver vs Ail you are. ti.kcu to do u to lean your money, to buv Liberty IJonds, for tvl.dch you're paid interest; do it no'tf , today. Money itself has no intrinsic value. Its only value consists cf what it can give us - p of vhat it tan do to make lile mere livable. Just now we c?n make our money count ii for most if we let the Government ute it for u:h Tjicre isn't one of us but can lend J part of his savings or his earnings to the Government and say: "InvVst' th:s for me Tirbt the war to the finish'. Do my part; 1 in making the 'Wo rid Safe" for Democracy. That's all I ask." n Matthew. ".ycr . l j 1 j ,l'r -: d sci ipiiun to the Third Liherfy Lorn is going to show that the citizens of notice dth?.tn iclrWcS vf-use I j WLslilrg'on County are one bundled per cent loyal let's oversubscribe our three times. has been cunrntViC.?'! hi ii.e Si.i err'cr ; Court of V-'avlnUv. C ;ry t y Lv.ro iiawyer i'o: .a:: p.:) p ;:c of ct-t? :;-ean N bsoiuie Oiw.-c. : r;.Q lie wi e'eu fd-1 M ant v. ill !: ihor :.! e t; c ihrt he is M or raP- VV cy.tic9 NO t or t re se 7.1-A 0. A il wheat a 1 do rr'rnv. must he r:ainioi.v:d if rat is to r.'o on the Food AdnJ .::: fro t."c.:i hi-9 ti-.kcm ie t glvs aid End c.ni'cit ;o ths ca-'.rny and grounds the Fe ie.-;-i p' .-. .;m!nictr.itor 3 an l place J;: rirc'.a..;um 1C0.W0 'pound Jros , i'ci.tr.ers ami .storskttpera, ai;d r th y ii:..d pr.i'i-i, .rt 1 J r .-ii'sod it. tien given uo and r ill Lo dijtributod. f-o'.iiied i;: : ,)!-?r r.l the r.crl irr.n o; ; I the Superior "C-.;.vt cf V.'ah;-i,:roa ay Courty en t'io.ir.:,i- Mench-.y inJrne, a 1018, at the cou: t horse 1 1 saio county in I'.'j mouth, r.. C, ir.d fiif.wcr or de ri ir to the n mr;;j i-t in sid "C'.irn cr th-.; j.-Iaintii;' V"::l :-'! r '' ;i:e re!ir f dt-pi;i"-j?d i. sr.'; '. ."ss f h'-'iot Ihis the TUi mv of iu ci'. 1033 . p C. 1'. VV. iiUS.ii.N, c. s. e. This ad. ccntribuied by Iota 'a w-n v.rv f- n7 pi e- 2ub?cii e io tho I:atcn. 7-rrr'T
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