1 foetal anb $)f rsoimls i t, . . . ? > 11 Miss Telva Williams has returned I from a visit to friends in Aurora. I tie Miss Maxine Harris, of Clinton, is I the guest of Miss Lillian Harris this I week. I ? ? ? / I Mrs. L. T. Pierce and Mrs. Herman I Voss were Raleigh vi si tort, Thurs-1 day. m ? * Mrs. Meada Sagger, of Chick-1 ashaw, Okla., is the guest of Mrs. J. I E. Garris. ? ? ? Mrs. Nannie Moye Humphrey spent I this week with friends in Falklamn and Raleigh. ? ? ? Miss Annie Perkins has returned { from a visit to friends in Henderson I and Raleigh. ? ? ? Miss Delia Grace Wilson, of Ben son, is the guest of her sister, Mrs. I C- N. Bostic. ? ? ? A large number of friends attend- J ed the funeral of E. Wyatt at Hob good, Tuesday. ? ? * Miss Mary Bar bee returned Thurs day from her vacation spent in Dur ham and Wilson. ? ? ? Miss Margaret Smith has returned from a visit to friends in Reidsville i and Myrtle Beach. ? ? ? A large number of friends attend- | ed the funeral of Cecil T. Dixon in Wilson, Tuesday. ? ? ? Miss Margaret Carrithers, of Le noir, is the guest of Miss Dorothy Clarke this week. ? ? ? Mrs. Julia Walter and daughter, Miss Margaret, are visiting relatives in Morehead City. ? ? ? Miss Margaret Harris, of Rocky Mount, is the guest of her sister, Mrs. Claude Tyson. ? * ? Mr. and Mrs. Cleveland Paylor have returned from a visit to rela tives in Jacksonville, Fla ? ? ? Mrs. T. T. Grimes and daughters have returned to Miami, Fla, after a visit to Mrs. S. A. Roebuck. ? * ? Miss Eleanor and J. Stanley Smith spent Monday and Tuesday with Mr. and Mrs. Robert Lee Smith. ? ? ? Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Simons, of near | Tarboro, were guests of Mr. and' Mrs. J. M. Wheless, Sunday. ? ? ? Mrs. Haywood Smith and Missj Dorothy Smith have returned from a visit to relatives in Durham. * ? * Misses Rachel Barrett, Mae Knott, Frances Dupree and Lucille Davis were Wilson visitors Thursday. ? ? ? Mrs. Frank Capps has returned to Washington, D. C., after a visit to her mother, Mrs. Dora H. Keel. ? ? ? Mrs. J. R. Tugwell, Jr., of Foun tain, spent the past week end with her mother, Mrs. J. D. Owens. ? ? ? Miss Mary Humphrey has return ed to her home m Goldsboro, after a visit to Mrs. Ted L. Albritton. ? ? ? Mr. and Mrs. Frank M. Davis, Sr., and daughter, Miss Elizabeth, left today for a trip to Blowing Rock. ? ? ? ' Miss Dicie King has returned from a two weeks vacation trip to Wash ington, Baltimore and Philadelphia. ? ? ? Mr. and Mrs. Roscoe Jefferson, of Chicago, spent the week end with Mr. and Mrs. George W. Windham. ? ? ? Mrs. John B. Wright, Jr., returned to Greensboro Thursday after a visit to her siser, Mrs. J. L. Shackleford. * * ? Miss Mary Jo Edwards, of Jack sonville, Fla., is visiting, her grand parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Wheless. ? ? ? v Mr. and Mrs. Fred Smith, Mrs. Louis Alex and Mrs. E. B. Hodge and son were Goldsboro visitors, Mon day. ? ? ? Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Williams, oi Southern Pines, spent the past week I end with Mr. and Mrs. George W.I Windham. I 9 9 9 Mrs. Bill Rolling and children, Mite Margaret Bradley and Miss Mar? I Williams were Scotland Neck visitors, I Tuesday. 1 I 9*9 I Mr. and Mr*. Harold Sugg AM and daughter Betty Lawson, of WW son, spent Tuesday with Mr. had Mrs I W. C. Askew. I ? ? ? I Miss Frances Hammond, of T.ain I 3 ^ Kdele Rev. and Mrs. H. M. Wilson and son, James, have returned from a visit to Atlanta, Ga., and Sooth Carolina. ? ? ? Friends will be glad to learn that Mrs. C. C. Joyner, who is receiving treatment at Duke Hospital is im proving, though slowly. ? ? ? Mr. and Mrs. George Williams and children, and Miss Edith Forest and Bill Williams of Greenville, spent the week end at Nags-Head. ? ? ? Mr. and Mrs. G. S. Williams, J^r., have moved their residence to Roa noke Rapids. Miss Telva Williams left recently for a visit to them. ? f ? Mr., and Mrs. James R. Lang and Mrs. P. E. Jones left Wednesday to be at the bedside of Jack P. Lang, who is critically ill at his home in Columbia, S. C. ? ? ? Mr. and Mrs. Frank Wentz, of Norfolk,Va. and Mr. and Mrs. Alonza Wentz, of Roper, spent Thursday in Farmville the guests of Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Godwin. ? ? ? Mrs. J. D. Owens and daughter, Miss Neva, and house guest, Mrs. J. R. Tugwell, Jr., of Fountain, were dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Wooten, of Falkland, Sunday. ? ? ? Friends will be glad to learn that Mrs. L. E. Walston, who underwent a recent operation in a Kinston hos pital, is reported as improving rapid ly and is expected home during the week end. m ? ? Misses Frances Satterfield, Doro thy Clarke, Milton Clarke, Donald Walston and Earl Trevathan rode their bykes to Tarboro on Monday and made a visit to Miss Denora Lindsay. The party left about nine in the morning, arriving at their des tination four hours later. ? ? ? Miss Dora DeGrace Rountree, of Washington, D. C., who has been visiting her grandmother, Mrs. Dora H. Keel, and Miss Eva Mae Turnage left Thursday for a visit to Virginia Beach. Miss Turnage will accom pany Miss Rountree to Washington for a short visit before returning. NOTE OF APPRECIATION We wish to express to friends our deep appreciation for the many acjs j of kindness and other' expressions of J sympathy extended us in our bereave ment. The Family of Cecil T. Dixon. BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENTS Mr. and Mrs. Earl F. Flake, of Farmville, Route 2, announce the birth of a son, James Samuel, on Fri day, July 26. Mr. and Mrs. A. McCloud Freeman, of Washington, D. C., announce the birth of a son, Augustus McCluod, Jr., on Saturday, July 13. Mr. and Mrs. M. E. Harrington, of Greenville, announce the birth of a son, John Milton H^crisgtoi!? on Fri day, July 26. Mrs. Harrington was formerly Miss Bonnie Belle Wind jham, of Farmville. TO FORT BRAGG * ? ? ' ,i W. Ray Smith, local engineer and surveyor, left this week for Fort Bragg, where he was called to do some special work as a civilian in connection with the National Defense program. - . Mr. Smith stated just before leav ing that this job would only require a few weeks of his time, and that he was retaining his residence and of fice here and would resume his work in farmville in the fall. He also re quested that any one desiring to com municate with him should advise Mrs. Smith at the Darling Shop, or dial 483-6, the residence on Pine street. ? " v.. EZRA WYATT Tarboro.?Ezra Wyatt of Hobgood died in' Edgecombe General Hos pital Monday morning after an 01 neas of a week. He was a member of the Presby terian Church. Mr. Wyatt is survived by his wife, the former Roth Baffin of Edge combe County; 'three daughters, Mary Wyatt of Raleigh, and Martha and Ruth Wyatt of Hobgood; and A son, John Wyatt of Hobgoodf Funeral services ware held at the home in Hobgood Tuesday at 4 p. m., , with interment in the cemetery ft . Hobgood^; The Rev. Chester Alexan der, pastor of the Hobgood Memorial Presbyterian Church, officiated. r. _ mold v Jjjjmm B ? f I ?viui v vuvwy ? w tipiiWs Mrs. Roebuck and Mrs. Pierce Entertain at&ovelyjParty ?w? An outstanding: and lovely social , event of midsummer was the bridge party tendered Mrs. T. T. Grimes, of Miami, Fla., by her sister and hos tess, Mrs. S. A. Roebuck, and by Mrs. L. T. Pierce. The affair was held at the Conn- 1 try Club and as guests arrived they 1 were served punch from an alcove in 1 the lounge by Mrs. P. E. Jones, Mrs. Wesley R. Willis, Mrs: W. Leslie < Smith and Mrs. D. R. Morgan, and ( places were found at the thirteen tables placed in a setting of lovely 1 summer flowers. 1 In the games of progressive con- ' tract, Mrs. Ted L. Albritton scored 9 high and was awarded a lemonade * set, and Miss Maxine Long received cornucopia vases as consolation prize. 1 The honor guest was given a humi dor server, and tea coasters were ' presented to the following out of ] town guests: Mrs. W. J. Bundy end | Mrs. Selma Carson Moore, of Green ville; Mrs. Augustus Rogers, of Lake : Alfred, Fla.; Mrs. Frank Capps, of Washington, and Mrs. Branch Bob- . bitt, of Warrenton. ' 1 Ices, cake and salted nuts were ^ served, the color note of yellow and green being charmingly emphasized. Strip-Cropping Aids In Fighting Erosion Strip-cropping, virtually unknown in North Carolina until within the past decade, has now become a com mon sight in areas subject to soil ero sion; according to W. D. Lee, soil con servationist of the State College Ex tension Service. He explained that the Soil Con-1 servation Service has developed two | types of strip cropping, one known as annual and the other as perennial. Each of these* types plays a definite role in a sound conservation program. In this section, kudzu and lespe deza sericea generally are grown in perennial strips. Hay produced in these strips enables farmers to turn under for soil improvement a larger proportion of the vegetation grown in ' annual strips instead of harvesting - these annual crops for hay. Lee pointed out that the turning 9 under of these cropsc makes it pos sible to produce clean-tilled crops more economically and on less land. This in turn permits .the growing of perennial strips on steeper portions of the land. Another reason for growing both annual and perennial strips is that sometimes heavy rains occur when the vegetation in the annual strips is not large enough to provide ample protection for the land. This makes perennial strips necessary as a sec ond line of defense. Lee pointed out that perennial strips and annual strips are import ant and desirable measures. When used to supplement each other, the two enable farmers to plan their operations so that if bad weather comes, the land will hot be so hard hit. ***? ^.T- 1 Ginners wee JNeea For New Devices Ginners of North Carolina and other Southeastern states have been quick to recognize the need for more elaborate cleaning equipment to han dle the increasing amount of longer staple varieties of cotton, says J. C. Ferguson, extension ginning special ist of State College. Probably the spark which set off the increased growing of longer lint was the one-variety .cotton communi ty plan. Jn recent sears, more and more counties have turned toward the general standardization of varieties, realizing that such a plan would work for their general welfare. "Ten years ago," Ferguson said, "fewer than 5 percent of the gins in the Southeastern states were equip ped with extractor-feeders for clean ing seed cotton before it went to the gin stands. Today more than 25 out of every 100 are employing extrac tor-feeders to improve the grade of lint turned out from the varieties farmers now grow and to improve the efficiency of their gins.'.' The marked tendency toward long er staple varieties has also brought about the need for more cleaning and drying machinery. This equipment makes it much easier to turn out good preparation on the ginned lint, the kind of preparation that makes bales attractive to buyers. Ferguson pointed oat that testa at the U. S. Cotton Ginning- Laboratory at Stoneville, Mississippi sboar that ) proper cleaning of seed cotton bene fits the ginned lint, on an average, by one-fifth of a grad? with long staple varieties and two-fifths of a grade with short staples. At most gins, the higher value of the bake showing better preparation : M reflected' in the price.fanners re ceive for their cotton. : ? ' | fltaee ledo^^de ???tiilTUii Jty^has doubled his corn yield, as I well as having the best stand of red Dispelling The Fog I ? ' (By Charles Michelson) If there is anythingjon which the American people are united it 'is on the necessity of our preparing ade quately to resist and repel attack on I this country. * Where there still exists some un certainty is on the question of what constitutes preparedness. It is hot enough to appropriate vastJ Bums of money to build battleships, I a myriad of airplanes, defenses fori cur outlying possessions, tanks, and all the other paraphernalia that mod ern war compels. Pursuit planes will not chase hoe tile bombers by themselves; skilled personnel has to direct them; expert! gunners have to be found to Are the I machine-guns effectively. Anti-air guns are complicated mechanisms. We probably need more of them than any nation that ever was called upon to protect itself, and there must be I trained specialists to handle them. Fortresses are only worth while if they are manned by sufficient skilled I forces to make them empregnable. Once upon a time the embattled farmers were good enough to meet and defeat the army that beset us at Lexington, but that type of combat lives only in history. Nowadays, as the terrible experience of France, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Norway andl Denmark has' so tragically demon strated, valor and patriotism are pitifully inadequate to cope with modern invasions. Our defenders must have the latest and strongest] weapons and, moreover, must know how to handle them. And that sort of knowledge is not gained in a day. Training rereonnei. Soldiering is no longer a pursuit that anybody can take up overnight. It needs no alarmist to point out what a dire1' think it would be to send even the biggest army of raw recruits to meet an onlaughter by an army and navy with every equipment which science has been able to produce, un der officers who have been schooled for years in directing machine war fare. The whole of our peace-time army would not be enough to service and man the air fleets we are pre paring to construct. That leaves only the partly trained National Guard as our present reserve,( and, at this writing, some people are demurring at having the National Guard muster ed into service. .1 It seems rather obvious that the regulars have to be. kept in readiness to garrison the Panama Canal, per haps Puerto Rico, and if the assault we must guard against comes, in Lat in-America, we may have to take care of that situation as well. Perhaps that situation may never arise. It is certain, that it is less likely to arise if we are prepared for it, than if we are not. Then comes the matter of training camps for officers and soldiers, and the problem is to get the best ma terial to teach and train. A good many of our people shy at the idea of conscription, and there are a lot of plans germinating to handle this question. If we are going to form a competent army of a million or more we have got to get started. If we are going to have the big navy, programmed and appropriated for, we have got to have sailors and ma rines and officers, for our present naval force numbers barely enough to take care of our present not .in considerable fleet. Somehow the resistance to muster ing in the man strength of this coun try is coupled with the declaration that we must not send our men to fight Europe's battles. Not For Europe. v I have been around the United States a great deal and I have yet to meet anybody of importance who had the remotest idea of transporting an army across the Atlantic. In the first place, there is left no plaee.,we could be sure of landing such an army.' The British Isles, which ap parently are to be the main war theatre from now on, have about as many soldiers as they can handle, and the problem of feeding and housing additional forces in l^rge numbers might be more of an embarrassment than a help.. It was different in the World War with a continent bo range ever and ports all over the Western European coasts for disembarkation. In other words, it is doubtful if we could get into the European war even if anybody wanted to. ? i 1_ In,m H What we are aiming ?u ? w the w*r from getting over here, via I South America or Canada, or -by any | other way station. We would not be [very comfortable with Beit Hitler's [forces as near-neighbors, even if our I Monroe doctrine did not pledge us to I prevent v the shifting of colonies in the [Westehi hemisphere fromi one foreign (nation to another, let alone the Hit llerization of any of our neighbor na I It goes without saying that we [must be prepared to get along with I out?for the present . at least?the [British fleet in maintaining our creed Ipf America for the Americans. So J we must figure that we are on our I tore has in store for us. I Fortunately o* unfortunately, we I have a Presidential Section in prog Are to do the job. Perhaps no ad ministration has ever gone as far as the President has gone to minimis* the political aspect of things. He has taken into his, cabinet two of the most prominent Republican public men?a former Secretary of State find the minority party's candidate for Vice President at the last elec tion. Defense Cornea First. He did not pick near-Republicans, or men likely to change their politi cal faith, but outstanding fellows. These' two men are to direct the Army and the Navy?but the fault finders are trying to make the ooun try believe that even this was some sort of maneuvering for partizan ad vantage. This sort of fussing is not going to make any difference in the long run. If it comes to the big test, our citizens are patriots first and Repub licans or Democrats second. But. the happenings may delay matters to some extent, and we cannot well af ford delay. As to the quarrels over the matter of how to get a suitable army, we should keep in mind that if the worst eventuates, we need the finest, best trained army we can put together. And if the dire possibility does not come to pass?well, military training never did anybody any harm. * ? ? r ? . ' ? 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