FIRST : <% Ask your Grocer about Qualityof JFG Special Cotfe$ SERVING COKE IS HOSPITALITY IN YOUR HANDS Ask for ft M$ rway.. . both PLEASE return trade-marks mean the same thtng. empty bottles promptly BOTTUD UNDBt AUTHORTTY OF THI COCA-COLA COMPANY IY COCA-COLA BOTTLING CO.f Atheville, N. C. ' O t?47, TW Caeo-Cato PREVIEWS NATION'S FOOD STATUS PRESENTING A REVIEW of the nation's food situation, Secretary ol Agri culture Clinton Anderson (right) is shown as he appeared before the Senate Apprdpriations Committee in Washington. Chairman Styles Bridges (R-N. H.)f at left, accused the State Department of tardiness in furnishing the committee with full details on the $579,000,000 stop-gap aid bill for the relief of stricken Europe. ( International Soundphoto ) r Human Betterment League Seeks To Curb Increase In Crime, Vice In State An educational program design ed to assist in curbing the steady increase in morons in the State's population and the attendant vice, crime and institutional expense such increase involves^ has just been launched by the Human Bet terment League of North Carolina, Inc. Pointing out that cases of ment al defect and mental diseases oc cupy more than one-half of all the hospital beds in the state at an an nual cost to the taxpayers of about two million dollars, the League, which has headquarters in Win- j ston-Salem and is presently head- ! ed by George H. Lawrence of Ashe- i ville, is seeking to inform the peo- j pie of the State nbout "the alarm- 1 ing extent of cases of feeblemind- 1 edness." Part of t lie answer, the League , . f ... state>, is selrc'.ivc sterilization of the mentally unlit through more complete enforcement of the pro vi>ion> of the State's sterilization law. More than 40,001) copies of <\ j pamphlet containing questions and ,in>wci> about the operation of this statute are being mailed to various | groups in North Carolina. , The pamphlet empha>izes that a sterilized person "can lead a com Your Back's Relaxed with Ironrile _A_u_t o m a t ij: I ron o r Yon tit down while auto matic Ironrite glides your Ironing out smoothly, swiftly and beauti fully. All you do is fuide the iron In i ? stop and start with easy knee controls. No aches or pains from lifting heavy hand irons. You'll thrill at Ironrlte's exclusive fea tures ? especially the two open, identical ends. Ironrite irons every thing ? from shirts to bed linens?* in a Jiffy. Try Ironrite! Buy Iron rite! Easy terms, For too! Call us for youf Immediate FRFE Home Detn- Delivery ongimtion! MAKE HER HAPPY WITH ONE OF THESE A GIFT SHE WILL NEVER FORGET SOSSAMON FURNITURE COMPANY Phont 87 Sylva, N. C. pletely normal, satisfying sex life , because sterilization removes noth ing from the body. The simple op eration merely closes the tiny pas- ! sages through which the life-pro ducing cells must travel." i Tlie Selective Service rejections i "because of mental disease or de ficiency were high throughout the war. In 1944 they accounted for 48 percent of the North Carolina men found unfit for military ser vice." While medical science is learn ing mere about ways to cure some types of insanity, feebleminded ness "is not a disease and there fore cannot be cured. Feeblemind ed patients are born with defec tive mental equipment which can- v not be changed," explains the, pamphlet. "North Carolina statutes pro vide special legal safeguards to prevent any abuse of this important law. A careful investigation is nade by the heads of certain in stitutions or by county superin endents of welfare, who make heir recommendations to the State Eugenics Board. If the Board finds hat sterilization' is indicated it ?an order 'the operation perform ed at public expense. If a patient; >r his family feel that the opera- | ion should not be performed, ap peal to the courts is possible." Officers of the Human Better nent League, in addition to Presi lent Lawrence, are Dr. A. M. Jor lan, Chapel Hill, vice-president; Mrs. A. B. Stroup, Winston-Salem, ecretary; James G. Hanes, Win ?>ton-Salem, treasurer; Miss Elsie Vulkop, Winston-Salem, field sec retary. Directors of the League are Judge Nat S. Crews, and Dr. C. j Nash Herndon, Winston-Salem; Mrs. E. B. Hunter, Charlotte; Mrs. Richard S. Lyman, Durham, and Dr. .Gordon W. Blackwell, R. W. Madry, and Dr. W. D. Perry, all of Chapel Hill. ? I Three six-foot mash hoppers, or j the equivalent, that feed from both j sides, should be provided for each | 00 laying hens. Read Herald want a da for profit ? Uae for result* PLANNING PLANTING Landscaping in all its Branches From a Single Tree to an Estate G. Frank Sauter Landscape and Garden Architect Whittier, North Carolina M/\l*klITI\