FarmviHe Enterprise FARMVTLLE, N. G G, ALEX SOUSE, Owner 6 Mgr. Eva Horton Shackleford Associate Editor Pablished bj THE BOUSE PRINTERY Subscription Price: One Year $1.50 ? Six Months 75c ADVERTISING RATES: Display (Minimum) JOe Per Inch Readers?Per Line?5e All Legal adva. 5c a fine per week Published weekly and entered as Second Class Mail Matter at the PoatofCce at Farmville, N. CL, un der set of March 3rd, 1878L A CRIME AGAINST CIVILIZATION The German attack upon Norway cannot be explained except upon the theory of any nation, or any people, except his own. This has been believed by most of the intelligent people of the world for more than a year. The seizure of Denmark, together with the sud den attack upon Norwegian ports, without warning and without declara tion of war, stamp Nazi Germany, under Hitler, as a brutal, outlaw na tion. Those who are prone to condone German aggression, as necessary to the preservation of Germany, will find it hard to excuse the wanton killing of Norwegian sailors, who died in ships assaulted and sunk by a foe that slipped up to them with out any indication of hostility. It is bad enough to kill men in battle but it is another thing to as sassinate them without giving them a chance to fight for their lives. To suddenly attack the warships of a neutral power, to bombard the cities | of a friendly nation without warning ? and to use overpowering force against a weaker, unsuspecting, people is a crime against civilization. FTFrTRTrTTV FOR THE ""farmer"" The Rural Electrification Adminis tration reports that it has financed the building of nearly 300,000 miles of rural power lines and that an average of 422 miles of new lines are being built every day. Since the establishment of the REA in 1935, the number of farms receiving powerline service has in creased from less than ten per cent to more than twenty-two per cent, of the total in the United States.. Part of this extension has been due to private or public utility expansion, but most of it has been through REA financed cooperatives. Whenever a group of farmers ap ply for a loan to finance the con struction of a generating plant and distribution system, the REA experts 1 survey the field and decide whether the project is economically feasible. If so, a twenty-five-year loan is made, but the Federal agency also assists with the engineering problems, helps secure new customers and does what it can to assure the success of the project One of the ways this is done is to provide loans to assist owners to wire their farm homes. Cheaper prices are obtained by buying lighting equipment for an entire house in one lot and there are other combinations - which enable the customers of the lines to secure electrical appliances at a very reasonable cost MUSriTALtf fVK KUKAL -i AREAS The much-discussed Federal health program, estimated to cost $8?00f 000,000 over a period of ten years, is not m?lriT>y much progress but the counter-proposal of the President, suggested to Congress in a special message on his fifty-eighth birthday, that the Federal Government assume the expense of the construction of fifty rural hospitals, may receive favorable action at the present ses sion of Congress. The rural hospital proposal entails a ten million dollar appropriation for materials and $2,500,000 for WPA construction labor. The hospitals would be located solely on the basis of need, without requiring the bene ficiary communities to share any of the building costs. Local authorities, however, would be asked to assume the estimated $100,000 per year oper ating cost for an average 100-bed The Public Health Service has sur veyed the United States and reports that there are 269 rural areas which treld use each h^spftal - In M* te? less than two per thouss pitai construction is in rural loeatt *2. ikons af the United States follow: FOUNTAIN NEWS ] (By MRS. M. D. YELVERTOW) Mrs. Hardy Johnson and daughter, Martha Hardy, spent a few days this 1 week with friends in Charlotte, i Miss Mary Carolyn Redick, a stu- 1 dent of Meredith College, was at 1 home for the week end. Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Yelverton and ' daughters, Misses Hazel Vivian and 1 Frances Yelverton, of Eureka, visited 1 relatives here Sunday. Miss Daphine Owens Yelverton ' was a guest of her teacher, Miss Ethel Callis, at her home in Collerain dur ing the week end. Mack Smith, Jr., of Charlotte was at home with his father during the week end. Franklin Lewis, a student of State College, spent the week end with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Lewis. ! Mr. and Mrs. Russell Williams and son, Hugh, of Red Oak were week end guests of Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Eagles. FOUNTAIN GIRL WINS HONORS I AT R C. T. C. j Miss Hazel Owens, a student of the junior class at E. C. T. C., was recently elected president of the Poe Literary Society. Miss Owens is listed among- those who rated the "Who's Who for College Students" and was also on the Scholastic Honor Roll for the Winter Term. MASCOT ENTERTAINS SENIOR CLASS Little Miss Katherine Susan Pope, daughter of B. A. Pope and the late j Mrs. Katherine Gross Pope, enter j tained the members of the senior iclass, of which she is Mascot, at an informal dance Friday evening in the Agricultural Building. Punch and wafers were served throughout the evening. The young Mascot lives with her maternal grand parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. 0. Gross and an aunt, Miss Frances Gross in Greenville. ; ?, WALSTONBURG NEWS Mrs. Pearl Johnson of Farmville visited her sister, Mrs. Ray West, last week. Friends of Messrs. George Bailey and E. L. Jones will be glad to know that they are recuperating after hav ing been in the hospital in Wilson last week. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Lang, Mrs. W. E. Lang, Sr., Truett Lang and Mrs. I Jesse Gay were Raleigh shoppers on Thursday. i Mrs. M. D. Yelverton and Mrs. F. L. Eagles of Fountain spent Thurs day with Mr. and Mrs. L F. Smith, i Mrs. Metta Herring visited in Crisp and Fountain, Thursday. Miss Ruby Burch entertained a few friends of her niece, Marilu Burch, honoring her fourth birthday, Saturday afternoon, April 13. After games were played, ice cream and cake were served to the. following: John Gilbert Gay, Doris Dixon, Tom my Lewis, Betsey Ray Chandler, Charles Shirley and Betsey Rouse. Miss Alene Bailey of E. C. T. C., spent the week end at home. [ Miss Dorothy Smith of Fountain spent the week end with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ivey Smith. Miss Ruth Jenkins of Barnesville 'and Miss Ruby Jenkins of Wilson spent the week end with Mr. and | Mrs. Sam Jenkins. They were ac companied home by Miss Clara Jen kins. MR. AND MRS. HICKS ENTERTAIN Mr. and Mrs. C. T. Hicks enter tained the members of the choir of the Walstonborg Methodist Church last Friday evening. A most en joyable musical program by mem bers of the choir was the opening feature of the evening. After the program, those present participated in several interesting and amusing games. Refreshments in the form of pink and white ice cream and cake, were served to the following: Misses Ruby Bunch, Fannie Mae Smith, Helen Smith and Anne Hicks; Mesdames Ivy Smith, Frank Shirley, Isaac Rouse, C. T. Hicks and Carlos Wals ton; and Messrs. Elga Soper, pastor of the Church, Sam Chandler, Allen Thacker, C. T. Hicks and Isaace Rouse. The dining room was decorated, using spring blooms and candle light. rnw.TBsmvr. There were 676441 cows in 27,948 herd* on test in Dairy Herd Improve ment Associations in the United States last year, and North Carolina ranked eighth among the States in percentage of new hards on test . : h . . OATS New hnlWees oats have hew de veloped by the North Dakota State College Experiment Station dis tributed raider the name "Nakota." ; ?i ;i4| mm WHIT* MEAj^l^ jvidfaag more white meat, says the U* 1 - |?V DEffTS ?5* ^mmmmmfrnrnrnrnmrn .; ..?*'1 2 * Agronomist Encourages Production of Soybeans , * - ' Grow soybeans as a commercial srop, for soil improvement or as a Teed crop, Prof. C. 8. Williams, head >f the State College Agronomy De partment, advises North Carolina Farmers. He urges* commercial growers to increase yields per acre this year in view of the demand for this crop and its products due to the war situation in Europe and the Orient Recommending the yellow-seeded varieties, which are in greatest de mand by oil millers, Prof. Williams said that Herman, Tokyo, Wood's Yellow and Haberiandt are adapted to the Coastal Pkun; Herman, Wood's Yellow, Clemson, and Haberiandt are best for the Piedmont; and Herman and Haberiandt are adapted to the Mountain area. "The land selected for soybeans should be of at least average pro ductivity,'' the agronomist declared. "It should be well drained and in proper shape for planting on or about May 1. Although soybeans belong to the legume family, they require moderate amounts of a properly-se lected fertilizer. "Ordinarily," Prof. Williams con tinued, "little or no nitrogen is need ed in the fertilizer mixture if the soil is in a fairly good state of produc tivity. However, if the soil is poor to medium in fertility, about 2 per cent nitrogen should be included in the mixtures." The fertilizer recommendations of the College Agronomy Department for soybeans are: Coastal Plain, 200 to 300 pounds of a 0-8-4 or a 0-8-6 on fairly productive soils, and 250 to 300 pounds of a 2-8-4 or 200 pounds of a 3-12-6 on poor to medium soils; Piedmont and Mountains, 200 to 300 pounds of a 2-10-4 or 2-10-6 on fairly productive soils, and 250 to 300 pounds of a 2-10-5 or 200 pounds of a 3-15-6 on poor to medium soils. Cotton Pushed Into Limelight Present conditions have pushed the much-abused and - long-suffering cot ton crop back into the limelight this year, says J. 0. Rowell, extension en tomologist at State College. Especially in tobacco counties have growers indicated they plan to plant their full cotton acreage allotment. For the past two years, North Caro lina has produced unusually short crops of lint. Since the Triple-A program states that farmers may market all the cot ton they produce on their alloted acres, every effort should be made to get a good harvest, Rowell said. Bofere they can do this, the State College man pointed out, they must take steps to control the ever-pres ent and ever-deadly enemy of the crop, the boll weevil. If a program of poisoning is started in time and closely adhered to, good yields may be expected. /' ..??? Rowell said that cotofi should be planted as early as the season will permit. This is the first step in the fight against the weevil. Then, too, varieties which will mature the bolls quilkly should be used. The following varieties of 31/32 to 1 1/16 inch staple are recommended for the different sections of the State: Upper Coastal Plain: Coker 100, Mexican, and Farm Relief. For the heavier soils vof the lower Coastal Plain: Coker 100 and Caro lina Foster. . -1 For the Piedmont area: Mexican, Coker 100, and Farm Relief. Pre-square poisoning should be started as soon as the squares begin to form, or when the plant is 5 to 6 inches high, and before the squares are large enough for the weevils to puncture. After the squares form, a good program of dusting should be em ployed as a further control of this insect enemy. LATE CROP L. T. Weeks, Extension tobacco specialist of State College, predicts that tobacco will be later this year than has been the case in the past several years. NOTHING IN THS NAME Tulsa, Okla. ? Although her name is Thrift, there's little thrifty about Mildred Thrift, 26, of Sapulpa. She is recovering from her 16th opera tion in ten years. mAn nATlfl Seventy-three percent of the 4,782 hogs marketed last year through the cooperative livestock as sociation at Chadburn were tops, re ports S. C. Oliver, Columbus County farm agent f ; I COMMITTEE i ?? 1 special Pitt County farmer com mittee has been appointed to make a careful study of practices fend meth ods that farmers might use to pro duce cotton more economically. I Through the use of lime and phos [IfffyttftH /V|iimiiwwrnd Til** ? III I TENANTS In 1937, two out of every five faxv men in the United States were ten ants. CHICKENS Oklabar is the name of a new breed of chickens deevloped by the Oklahoma A, & M. College. Their sex can be determined as aoon as they hatch. Reading- books is not always a short cut to culture; it depends upon what you read. Bill collectors report that people who pay their bills promptly rarely get mad with the collector. The Allies, It seems, are not fight ing the war like some Americans think it should be fought. An educated man can argue with out losing his temper and without re sorting to abusive adjectives. Never expect a public official to please you in everything; be thank ful if he pleases you in anything. Everybody can explain the reasons for any vote in any election?after the election. When people take themselves too seriously they become funny; it even applies to newspaper editors. When the umpires begin to work' for their pay the nation will really have a serious issue to discuss. Don't forget the Finnish relief fund; hen again you might remem- j ber the Chinese people face suffering too. When a business man keeps a No- j vember, 1939, calendar on his desk it must have an interesting picture. _ i Nations, like people, must be ready to assert and maintain their rights if they expect them to be respected. Lemon Juice Recipe Checks Rheumatic Pain Quickly If you suffer from rheumatic, ar thritis or neuritis pain, try this simple inexpensive home recipe that thousands are using. Get a package j of Ru-Ex Compound today. Mix it | with a quart of water, add the juice j of 4 lemons. It's easy. No trouble at j all and pleasant. You need only 2 tablespoonfuls two times a day. Of ten within 48 hours?sometimes over- ' night?splendid results are obtained, j If the pains do hot quickly leave and ,1 if you do not feel better, Ru-Ex will j cost you nothing to try as it is sold by your druggist under an absolute money-back guarantee. Ru-Ex Com- | poujid is for sale and recommended by City Drug Company FOR COUNTY COMMIS SIONER (FIFTH DISTRICT) I hereby announce my Candidacy; for Election as County Commissioner from the Ayden-Swift Creek District, subject to the action of the Demo cratic primary May 25th. Your vote and support will be high ly appreciated. J. DIXIE CANNON, A-19-3tp Ayden, N. C. ? ? ANNOUNCEMENT For House of Representatives I hereby announce that I am candi date for nomination as member of the { North Carolina House of Represent atives subject to the action of the Democratic Party in the coming Primary of 1940. DR. W. L WOOTEN. * 1 NOTICE I I wish to express to my friends, supporters, and all who were in terested in my campaign for the office of Register of Deeds my ex ceeding regret that, in my anxiety and seal to contact voters, having solicited all of Saturday after noon in Farmville, I failed to ap ply for registration with the County Board of Elections until three minutes too late that after noon. I also wish to hereby express my most sincere thanks for all promises of support, considera tion and encouragement extended j to me. 1 D. S. SPAIN, Jr. PsiHB pJI-Vcgctfble Way i Thousands torn to this way to get relief when they're lazy intestinally and it has them headachy, bilious, I . ' irritable, Bstlesit A quartet to a half-teaspoonful of spicy, aromatic, ^-^^^BLACK - DBM)G^. Tost* nets gently thoroughly &oxt fltoS j| '4aa* flmiri IAiImm 'Mil ' I PARAMOUNT I THEATRE I FARMYILLE, N. 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And your entry may WIN I I I J h:/J GET COMPLETE DETAILS AND FREE ENTRY BLANK FROM US I I j The Turnage Co., Inc. FARMVILLE, N. C. VOTE FOR JOHN H. MANNING ___for REGISTER OF DEEDS v . (Pitt County) ; He Is Experienced and Has Practical Knowl edge of the Duties of the Office... His Long Service as Deputy Qualifies Him for This Deserved Promotion, V N ?# * _ - lull till I il I litl i . ,a , M a?g?t?f?t???t?t~T -t?f?t?t?f~ VOTE FOR J. NOAH WILLIAMS FOR RE-ELECTION COUNTY COMMISSIONER (First District?Greenville Township) YOUR VOTE and SUPPORT WILL BE HIGHLY APPRECIATED. v ? i ? ? ??:: ? -:-"3 .; ? """* For County Commissioner THIRD DISTRICT '??'^??v':- ? '? ;S? V-^.. '. ?? ","!*?. *'-A ?; :' , * ? |p;; ? ..??/' (Falkland, "Fountain, Farmville and Beaver Dam Townships) . ivV; "- "?' ?: ?' S /' '1 ' *' ? I I hereby announce myself as a candidate for County Commissioner for the Third District, subject to th^ Jj Democratic Primary May 25th, 1940. ' M ?. *bks ^ . , c?, [??J ^ w A ? ? 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