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LEAF DISEASE IS REPORTED Scattered Cases of Black Shank Have Been Report ed in County 4 PRECAUTIONS OUTLINED Scattered cases of black shank of tobacco have been reported from various sections of Surry county. The disease is noted by a wilted appearance of the plant and the stalk of the plant is black or decayed at the top of the ground. The plant dies, usually in spots over the field. It spreads rapidly and in some cases kills all plants in the field. According to H. R. Oarrias, Ex tension Plant Pathologist from State College, Raleigh, black shank is caused by a fungus or ganism which lives in the soil and attacks the roots and stalk of the tobacco plant. Fortunate ly this germ is able to attack only a very limited number of plants, including tobacco, tomato, and possibly Irish potato. The dis-_ ease is generally distributed in the Old Belt, and has caused considerable damage in that area. However, farmers are now ob taining excellent control of the disease by growing tobacco in a 4 to 6-year rotation. Fortunate ly any desired crop except toma toes and Irish potatoes can be grown in the rotation. In addition to rotation every precaution should be taken to avoid movement of even minute quantities of soil from infested to uninfested fields. The feet of farm animals and man, and farm implements should be thoroughly cleaned when moving from in fested to non-infested fields. Cases have been noted where the germ was carried into stables on the feet of farm animals and then to uninfested fields in the manure. The washing of soil from infested to uninfested fields should be presented with terraces or ditches. V Plant beds should be placed on new sites each year, and every precaution taken to avoid con tamination of the plant bed soil with the black shank germ. SURRY COURT IS ADJOURNED (Continued from Page One) 30 days was given; on the latter, 12 months. Bernie Norman was tried on three counts of violation of the prohibition law. He was given 90 days on the first charge and 30 days each on the other two, with terms to run concurrently. Hubert Key and T. B. Mayes, both charged with driving in toxicated, failed to appear and their bonds were set at S4OO and S3OO, respectively. Elie Cook, violation of the game law, 29 days or $29 and costs. Erastus Ollley, possessing and transporting liquor, 16 months. Arnold Easter, possession of liquor for sale, six months. H. R. Simmons, operating car intoxicated and reckless driving, 24 months. Divorces were granted to the following: P. M. Walker vs. Mat tie Lee Walker; Mary Ruth Wil lie vs. Garfield Willie; Sallie Qons Chamberlain vs. Carl Chamberlain; Clarence I. Ayers vs. Polly B. Hawks Ayers; Mazie Lee Higgins vs. Ernest W. Hig gins, and Samuel E. Draughan vs. Syvinia (Myers) Draughan. FREE HAIRPINS ARE OFFERED BY FIRMS The Eat Quick Lunch, operated by Tom Shugart, is now open for business in larger and more mod ern quarters after being closed for several days while remodeling was in progress. The Elkin Plumbing & Heat ing Company now occupies the quarters formerly occupied bv the Eat Quick Lunch, the two firms having exchanged locations. Re modeling and modernization of the former firm is now in pro gress. During the task of remodeling the building, a large quantity of hairpins were found stored away, and immediately Mi-. Shugart and Jones Holcomb. the latter pro prietor of the Skin Plumbing & Heating company, hit upon a generous plan of giving these hairpins to their customers, inas much as the hairpins cost them nothing. Pull details of their attractive free offers may be found in the advertisements of the two firms, located elsewhere in' this issue. One pedestrian in every seven involved in fatal accidents last year.had been drinking. MILL WORK H Elkin Lbr. & Mfg. Co. I "Everything to Build KIWANIS CLUB HEARS ADDRESS (Continued from Page One) it not for certain types of its peo ple who contribute little or nothing to the welfare of the particular sphere which they in habit. ' , He advanced the idea that the citizens of a community, the members of a church or any sort of organization, who contribute nothing to its promotion or pro gress and who express no interest in the general welfare of the town or community, constitute a type of small value to the world about them. Hie entertainment program consisted of musical numbers by a group of four Negro artists from Winston-Salem, who sang a group of spirituals. Soloists were Odessa Malone, vocalist and stu dent of Winston-Salem Teachers College; Albert King, graduate of Winston-Salem Teachers College; and two Negro students in voice, Virginia Fitch Turner, pianist and teacher in Winston-Salem schools, who rendered the piano accompaniments, was another in j&s group who last year appear- e'd in a program at the White House in Washington, during the visit there of King George VI, and Queen Elizabeth of England. During the meeting it was an nounced by President Weaver that a Lyceum Course, sponsored by the club, has been scheduled for four Fridays, falling upon October 25, November 1, 8 and 15. Mrs. Hugh Royall and Mrs. Julius Hall were winners of at tendance prizes, awarded during the meeting, which also featured piano solos by Miss Peggy Royall. TWO MEN ARE HURT IN TRUCK ACCIDENT Paul LaMarr and Arthur Lov ill, both of Mount Airy, are in a hospital there suffering burns and other injuries sustained when a large trailer which LaMarr was driving \frent over a 20-foot em bankment on Rockford street to crash into a creek, where it burned. It is believed by officers who investigated the accident that the truck was on fire before it wrecked, and that the accident occurred as the two men at tempted to fight the blaze while the truck was in motion. . URGE APPLICANTS FOR CIVIL SERVICE POST The United States civil service commission has announced that an insufficient number of appli cations has been received in the open competitive examination for the position of classified laborer (highway construction and main tenance), for filling vacancies in the public roads administration at a salary rate of 30 to 50 cents an hour. Qualified persons are urged to file application for this examina tion at once. Full information and application blanks may be obtained at the local postoffice. HOLLAND TO PREACH DEDICATORY SERMON Rev. Charlie Holland will preach the dedicatory sermon Sunday afternoon, July 21, at 2:30 at Swan Creek Baptist church. Several ministers will take part in the service and spe cial music will be rendered. The public is extended a cor dial invitation to attend. BOYS' SUNDAY SCHOOL CLASS ENJOYS OUTING Mfembers of the intermediate class of boys of the Methodist Sunday school, accompanied by their teacher, Claude Parrell.and Roscoe Poplin, enjoyed a picnic supper and swimming party at Crystal Lake in Winston-Salem Tuesday evening. "THE FLAG SPEAKS" TO BE SHOWN HERE A patriotic movie, one reel in length, entitled "The Flag Speaks," will be shown at the Lyric theatre here Saturday, July 27, as an addition to the regular Saturday program, Louis Mitch ell, manager, has announced. The mpvie was secured through the local P. O. S. of A., and should be . seen by all patriotic Americans, it was said. NOW 215 MEN ENROLLED AT LOCAL C. C. C. CAMP There are now 215 men enroll ed at the El kin CCC samp, 130 being new enrollees from Atlanta, Qa., and vicinity, it has been learned from camp officials. The new boys arrived here only recently. ANNUAL PICNIC TO BE HELD FRIDAY The annual picnic of the Sur ry court house officials, employees and invited guests will be held Friday evening at Cumberland Knob at 7 o'clock, It was learn ed at Dobson Wednesday. THE ELKIN TRIBUNE, ELKIN. NORTH CAROLINA Hf MB ■I SpK jj^BH jfJWKRt v v -, ! " V i ' ' ■p* 9 ■aS!E*^ Hp W ■ j| gl BiL Blm a r Ifel b V aH H^Jal ■F7 v ~ |H ' «| v ' 'm!E I 1 S^fl ? 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There comes to my mind an admonition from the Bible, which my mother used often to quote to me when I seemed overconfident about what I was going to do. "Let him who thinketh he stand eth take heed lest he fall." Saint Paul wrote that nearly two thou sand years ago in his first letter to the Corinthians. It's as sound advice now, to nations as well as individuals, as it was then. We've been sitting pretty, rely ing on the width of the oceans and the strength of the French and British fleets to keep any foreign aggressor from attacking us. Now we've suddenly discover ed that there's a potential enemy with a longer arm than we had imagined. We should have been "taking heed lest we fall" long ago. , LIBERTY .... conditional When I was a schoolboy we learned to write in "copybooks." There was a maxim printed in beautiful script at the top of each page and ruled lines below on which we were to copy the words at the top. The idea was that those maxims would stick in the pupil's mind. One that stuck in mine was "Eternal vigilance is the price of Liberty." I never knew who said that flxst, so I looked it up the other day. John Philpot Curran seems to have first expressed the idea in a speech in the Irish House of Commons in 1790. But he said more than just that. "It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights be come a prey to the active. The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime and the punishment of his guilt." Those words "the common fate of the indolent" seem to me to have a direct bearing upon the present situation. All that I can gather from Europe indicates that there has been altogether too much indolence on the part of the democracies which have now become a prey to the active despotisms. How about us? LAZINESS here A generation has grown up which didn't learn to write from copybooks and thinks the ancient maxims are out of date. This is the machine age. Young people learn to write on typewriters. The sentence they use for prac tice, because it has all the letters of the alphabet in it, reads: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." That might almost be the maxim by which Hitler has been guided. Certainly the quick Nazi Brown These Three Get Free Theatre Tickets Shirts have got the jump on the lazy democracies. While the peo ple's governments of England, France and the smaller democra cies have been working toward easier and better lives for all their people, the Germans have been driven to longer hours and harder work. You can't beat a people who work twelve hours a day, six days a week, by a six hour day and five-day week. All of the German efforts for seven years have been concen trated on making the tools and weapons for this war, and train ing youth to be warriors. The rest of the world heard about it but didn't believe it. We . laugh ed at Lindy when he reported that Hitler had the largest, most powerful air fleet ever built. And in the face of the obvious threat to their safety, the democracies still believed that the despotims would live up to their treaty agreements. HISTORY repeats Everybody knows how the Bri tish and French governments sent their prime ministers to Munich to "appease" Hitler, and took his word that he would be have like a gentleman. Demo cracies have made the same mis takes for thousands of years. The free states of ancient Greece be lieved that Philip of Macedon would keep his word. Instead he formed the most terrible a.my ever created up to then, and gob bled them up, one by one. His son, Alexander the Great, almost conquered the whole world. The wisest statesman of Athens, and ita ablest orator, was named Demosthenes. He never ceased to warn his people against Philip. We got the word "Philip pic" from the speeches of Demos- 95 Per Cent Of All Business Failures Are Non-Advertisers, According to Bradstreet. Your Local Newspaper Is Your Best Advertising Medium. START Advertising NOW in The Elkin Tribune thenes, many of which have, been preserved. And In one he said: "There is one .safeguard known to the wise, which is an advan tage and security to all. but es pecially to democracies as against despots. What is it? Distrust." That's worth remembering when Hitler says he has no de signs on America. TIME racing In an old English many years ago, I saw an ancient stone sundial. There was some lettering around the edge, and I went up the garden path to read the inscription. Carven in the stone were these words: "It is later than you think." That warn ing to those who are always put ting off things that ought to have been done long ago came back to mind just now. Perhaps it is already later than we think, to get our defenses ready against a modern world conqueror. Six weeks ago who would have believed that Hitler would come into possession of the French navy, threaten Britam to the point where it does not seem unlikely that he may have the British seapower to add to that? We in- America have relied upon our "one-ocean" navy to protect the Pacific coast and the British navy to guard our Atlantic shores. Economics Two Georgia darkies were dis cussing the financial condition of the country. They didn't agree. "You's all wrong," one vocif erated. "Dey ain't no money sho'tage. Ah asked mah bankuh is he out o' money and he tuk me in de vault and showed me piles an' piles o' money. An' ah says could he let me have jes' a little. An' he says sho' he could. Has ah any collat'rul? An' ah hasn't. Now dat's what's de mattuh wif dis country. Dey's plenty o' money but we'se jes' runnin' sho't on collat'rul.'* Only Chance Mother Podger—Yes, it's real ly remarkable. Little Eli seems to eat twice as much chicken when we have visitors. Minister—And why is that, my boy? Little Eli —'Cause that's the only time we have it. Egg "How would you like your egg served, sir?" "Is there any difference in price?" "None whatever, sir." "Then serve it on a thick slice of ham." Thursday. July 18, 1940 f?EED As a result of the European war, United States fanners may be called upon to produce a larg er portion of their seed supplies than they have for many yeais, says the U. S. Department of Agriculture. Betri-bnt-ion The dairy maid milked the pen sive goat, and pouting, paused to mutter: "I wish, you brute, you'd turn to milk," And the animal turned to butt her. One More Question "Daddy!" exclaimed the little boy. "On e more question then," sighed the tired father, "only one." "How far is it," inquired the tot, "between to and fro?" Play is important but some men give it too much promi nence; they forget how to work. • PAINTS I Elkin Lbr. & Mfg. Co. I "Everything to Build J Anything" W"I'VE J MEET PHIL AT THE ||| FOUNTAIN AT E «IS?MACY WHEN HE SEES THIS Incorporated
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