^Raleigh. Si C. Sept 17-That t ^ 7 . t . v the Stare is beginning to evt dence a great deal of real inter est in the membership campaign drive for the North Carolina Division al the American Got. ton Association, is borne out by the tremendoos amount Qf mail which is coming daily to the campaign, headquarters* at the S&ie Agricultural Building. The letters contain pledges of support, assurances of help and in nrttoy cases are accompanied many intelligent di age, and the maximum of se* ^ 'J.'1' - ts "i . ? ; j to make ite tomorrows elway. greater and more eternal worth while than the yesterdays: tMM '?Teach me' that sixty minutes, make an four, sixteen ounces one - pound and 100 ccnts $1. Help mew to live thit I can lie down at night with stfj clear -con science, without s ?un under my pillow and unhaunted by the faces of those to whom, I have brought pain/ Grant that I may earn my meal picket on the square, and that in earning it I W to the jingle ot- tainted money and to the tostie of tid holy skirts. Blind m? to the faults of the other fellow, but reveal to me my own. Guide KfiBK?PiP.I look across (he ? dinner ?able at p??: &%? , ESSES': . ?&?? -..'5 L1C iUOUIMICG I department is laying much stress right now on QeanUp Week, October 4- j 11, which Commissioned jj ? MfiTTT r '' W 71 ? ' ? e tea Ir Kd ? October 9th is statute as Fire ft in North Carolina reason the week in which ithis date falls has been set apart as I clean up week for the entire | State: It is also observed na : ? .? & ' jk ,'li ?! y. - . The savinc or lives aid prop CS? V35UL*1 1 ? ?; vs, -i mm A reception will be given to the Faculty of the Farmville High school Friday, September 26tb, from 9 to 11 o'clock at the school building. This is a .wel come given by the Parent T ers organization, and ai sion when all of our toi community people can have an opportunity of shaking hands au6 getting acquainted with our faculty. Come out and lpts give them a welcome to our nice town, help at home. io? prices and keeping them higb have been, first, decreased production, due to so many men being in the. various armies of the world; anil erigage?in pro cheating of h ? We jbelie ans of lowering iamentle econo lote. Kconomt the purpose of late production prices ife rful forces, once full Pliy, ere :tiye in lower nice level. At 7 ? ? ing 'of teii billion dollars annual ly, approximately one third the cost oi&is fcountiy's participa tion in the ;tforld waiv is the opinion of Q. A. Kissel, presi dent of an automobile manu facturing: company. According to Kissel's argument the good reads in Milwaukee County, Wisonsin* alone save- Oxeir users |25,000 a day, or about one dol lar a ^ay for 'every vehicle tra versing them. : ,y I | A trafric census for Milwau kee County taken at intervals in the last four years she wed the use of the highways by approxi mately 25,000 cars a day. It showed also that traffic in that section has increased 45 per lent a year during the fbor-year is a vivid dembrfflft tion of ihe immense, benefits good raids mean m saving of ing of o\ illion d The People Who- Spend Too Freely Will Never Be Pi* pared For a Crisis fjf ? j When It Comes t Fanners with this pionth be gin to sell what they have made on their farmsandmanyof them will handle right much money during t^e selling season. What ought we to do with o?jr money? We should first settle outstand ing obligations. Let de|)ti be paid first-and/then it can be jeen what is left. After debts are^aid the money as tt comes in should^ be placed in the banks for 4afe keeping and for good invest* ments. If opportunities are of fered for what seems good in vestments it mi?ht prove aetata take to. jump too soon. :The matter Can be taken under con sideration and careful ir can be made tosee'if it n a good investment. Fs should not be too resfly . vest their : money. To do often means losing it j sides, keeping some mo good plan asyoti might $ace whtereirwould be We do not understand our other i not I as well as the . and other . countries? t^out how hd^fess we ym 1914 and 1915 when farm pro ducts* prices went so low and just because we had not saved and laid ufc> something for such a period of depressed prices. The people who spend freely will never be prepared for a crisis when it comes, not ate they readyto take up real ! bar- J gains when they are in' reach. Real bargains will offer them selves to the men who save their money and sr4 prepared to take them. Save your money Jh'fc fall.? Smithfield Herald. U. S. WAR MATERIALS SOLD TO FRANCE FOR 5400,000, 000 ment of the sale of surplus army material in France to the French Government for $406,00a,00{j sas been announced by the Secre tary of War.