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Make Western Front In I ers, will be looking for different War Look Like Football | colored shirts in order to get away Oldest, Says Steel Mills Are And Day. Correspondent— Running Night By JOHN MARCUS MURRAY, (Traveling Correspondent of the World-Wide News Service) Vienna, March 25.—Kurope is fev erishly preparing for a war that is liable to break out any day, any where. She no longer talks about the “next war.” It is the “coming war.” From the channel to the Mediter ranean, from the Pyrenees to the Rus.sian frontiers and beyond steel works are running day and night. In Czechoslovakia the Pilsen and Brunn arms factories are running three .shifts. The famous Shoda fac tory, controlled by French interests, is turning out guns and bullets at a war-time rate. Six weeks ago, I visited these two cities. Behind a 30- foot high stone wall—the avenues and byways to the works being guarded by sentrie-—7,000 Czecho slovakian workers are feverishly turning out war machines. On the day 1 arrived in Pilsen 1 learned that early that morning 14 •spies had been arrested. Three days previously three spies had been exe cuted. 1 was advised not to go near the works. However, 1 taxied through the streets, leading to the ar.-enal. I was stopped three times by sentries, who inquired the nature of my visit. Four months ago the Skoda works had been employing 4,000 men. To day they are employing 7,000. At Le Creusot, the Schneider Creusote company, the United Steel Corporation of France, is working at full capacity. In the early days of 1931, the plant had been running at a 40 per cent capacity. Towards the end of 1932, it ran at 85 per cent capacity. During the la.st 10 weeks it has been running at a hundred per cent capacity, plus two .-shifts. .Any stranger arriving in this armament town who dares to venture within 200 yards of any avenue leading to the works will have to give plausible satisfaction to the sentries that at mo.st his motive is idle curiosity. AVorld War Tame .Affair When the “coming war” breaks out, it will start with a fury that will make the western front of the great war appear like a football conte-t. In my travels during the last five years up and down F.urope, I found that everybody seemed to want a war. The average German, with all his Whining about his desperate home conditions, would fight to take Sile sia and Danzig from the hated Poles. The Hungarians have been in flamed to redeem their lost terri tories. The .Austrians want to fight be cause they feel that an out-anil-out War could not be worse than what they are now enduring. The Poles will fight became they have to fight to keep what they now have. The Czechs are the most level headed people in Kurojie. But if they want to maintain the integrity of their soil, they will have to fight, for Flungary and Austria have claims on it. The Rumanians, who are unde cided whether to fight their Lothario king or to fight someone else, were never good fighters. They are France’s allies ,and even if at the last moment they decide not to fight on the side of F’rance, they will allign watch have to fight to keep what the Trety of Versailles gave them at the expense of Hungary. Jugo-lavia will fight anyone, at any time. The Slavs love fighting. Bulgaria, still smarting under the decisions of the treaty, will fall on the flank of Jugoslavia. .Albania ,the satellite of Italy ,is counted on the side of the Italo- Austro- Hungarian - German went. Turkey and Greece will which way the wind blows. Probable Lineup. When the great war breaks out, it will probably be between-a-F’ranco- Poli.sh alliance and a German-Hun- garian-ltalian lineup. Kven leading Austrian military authorities, with whom 1 have been talking the last few days, admit that when such a war breaks out, France will be in Berlin within two weeks, and Mus solini will be looking for a different clime. F'rance today is estimated to be 40 per cent more powerful, mili tarily, than Germany was when she was bullying Europe previous to 1914 Unless Italy in the very early weeks of the war produces brilliant victories, the fasci.st “black shirter.s” who can salute dramatically and pose theatrically, but are poor fight- from the “neck-tie parties” that will be awaiting them throughout Italy. A leading Italian e.stimates that an army of 60,000 Italians outside the Italian frontier, fully armed and supported by the French, will be the first march into Italy to wrench its country from the fascist rule. Hilter’s ruffians, made up of cor ner loafers, will find that the Ger many that walked through Belgium in the early days of the great war was a Germany united, even the rank and file of the socialist party standing for the kaiser and the Fatherland. In tho.se early days the Jewry of Europe .stood by Germany. Today the financial Jew of Europe refuses to support Hitler. France, the all powerful, is now beginning to show evidences of “nerves.” She does not want war, al-though she prepared the field. She thought she was building se curity by systematically weakening Germany and coddling Poland, Rum ania, Szechoslovakia and Jugoslavia. A few years ago she felt so secure that she practiaclly told England to “go to blazes.” Three months ago it was not quite safe for an Ameri can to be recognized in Paris or provincial cafes. During the la.st days, however, France has been making gestures to pay America. France, too, wanted war to keep what she has. But lately she has discovered that it is going to be quite expensive, in money and blood, to keep what she has taken under the terms of the Ver sailles treaty. Up to a short time ago, France was quite certain that Rumania and Jugoslavia were two of her most powerful supporters. Rumania’s king has been busy fighting his people over his mistress—the I'ed haired Jewess—and if war should break out Carol will have his hands full deal ing with his rebellious subjects. Jugosalvia Breathes Revolution Jugoslavia, too, is breathing a revolution. It is a cjuestion whether or not the rebellious elements in the analysis will decide to hate Italy more than they hate Belgrade. If pitched against Italy a united Jugo slavia could lick Mussolini’s black shirters out of their §ocks. But Jugo slavia a^ she is today is hopelessly divided. So France can not expect much from Jugoslavia and will have to crush Italy and Germany with Po land and Czechoslovakia. And .she is preparing for a swift and vicious war. For some years British statesmen have been telling France that Eng land will keep out of the next Euro pean fight. Up to a few months ago France laughed at this warning. Lately, realizing that continental op position to her military arrogance has been rapidly augmenting, she has been trying to woo Britain to an alliance. The Briti.sh foreign office, a few days ago, again declared, un mistakably this time, that France “having made her bed must lie in it.” France has a powerful army and the most powerful war machine that any nation ever possessed in man’s history. She is nearly self-sufficient in her food- supply, and she has the biggest supply of the world’s gold. But German war zealots maintain that even a powerful army, food and gold can not win the final battle. 'I'hey claim they have the spirit to fight that the French lack. You can tell the heat of Europe’s war excitement by the number T spy arrests. The coming war is at hand. Where will it break out? In the most unexpected corner. Smithfield, March 26.—Coroner Jame.s H. Kirkman was called to Benson late Saturday afternooui to inve.stigate the death of Ira Woodall. The deceased was a brother of Rep resentative Preston Woodall. His home was about three miles from Benson. He had been married and leaves three children. A jury was empanelled and they rendered a verdict that the deceased came to his death March 24, “by exposure to the weather.” The evidence tended to show the deceased, who was a crippled man and walked with crutche:^, was seen to pass by the home of a neighbor, and when asked where he was going, stated that hie was going to the home of a friend to spend the night. His lifeless body was found Satur day afternoon about 2 o’clock, where he had fallen into a small ditch, about two feet wide and two feet deep. It appeared he was so stunned by the fall, he was unable to get up and died there from exposure to the cold weather. “Five cents a glass!” Does any one think That that is really the price of a drink V “Five cents a glass,” I hear you say, “Why, that isn’t much to pay.” •Ah, no, indeed; ’ti.s very small sum You are pa sing over ’twixt finger and thumb .And if that were all that you gave away. It wouldn't be very much to pay. First Preliminar’^^ Contest of the STATE TRIANGULAR DEBATE Guts In Veteran’s Pay Proposed By Roosevelt The price of a drink. Let him de cide Who has lost his courage and lo.-t his pride, , .And lies a grovelling heap of clay, Not far removed from a beast, to day. SELMA VS. LUMBERTON To be Held In the english-history classroom and WATER SCARCE— OIL PLENTIFUL.- When we think of oil, we usually think of Texas, Pennsysvania, and other well-known producing regions. We overlook .Aruba, an island of the colony Curacao, Dutch West Indies^ which is one of the largest oil pro ducing areas in the world, in pro portion to size and population. This island is only 60 miles square, has a population of 5,375, and in 1931 produced 2,500,000 barrels of gaso line, 22,000,000 barrels of fuel oil, and nearly 1,000,000 barrels of gas oil. In this region water is very scarce, which is a handicap for an even larger production of oil. Water is sold at a retail price of about 8c per bucket. Washington, March 13.—Although President Roosevelt has not com mitted himself to details as to how savings from veterans’ costs would be effected under the enonomy bill, some members of Congress have been given a compilation showing di rections that might be taken and amounts estimated to be saved. One such, placing the total to be saved at $383,530,000, follows: Estimated .Annual Savings 1— Eliminate pensions to remar ried widows, $2,487,000. (a) Civil war and Indian wars, $109,000. (b) Spanish war, $378,000. 2— Restrict hospitalization domiciliary care: (a) Income provi.sions on non- .'ervice connected cases, $9,000,000. 3— Reduce benefits to $20 for sin gle men hospitalized or domiciled, $5,370,000. 4— Emergency officers’ retirement act restricted to causative factor cases, $3,380,000. 5— One rating table, five rates, $10, $25, $50,$75,$100 average im pairment, $40,000,000. 6— Eliminate term insurance claims $15,000,000. 7— Eliminate disability allowances $101,652,000. 8— Eliminate Spanish war pension where gdvernment can rebut ser vice origin, $95,000,000. Income provision Spani.-h war sol dier pensions, service connected, $1,653,000. Income saving under present Span ish war veteran’s law $16,000,000. 9.Eliminate all presumption for disability compensation and emer gency officers, regulation 11, in cluded, $100,000,000. (a) Presumptive under amendment June 7, 1924, $40,640,000. (b) -All other presumptions, $59,- 360,000. 10— Enlistment after November 11, 1918, at pen.sion rate-^, $4,000,000. Retroactive Payment Limited 11— Retroactive payment limited to date of filing claim, $25,000,000. 12— Reduce $50 statutory award for arrested T. B. to $25 after five years, $9,000,000. 13— Eliminate $25 payment in tu berculosis cases where there has been no activity, $1,500,000. 14— Repeal sections 305 and 309, included in No. 6, $6,000,000. 15— Eliminate $2.65 per diem al lowance, $300,000. 16— Eliminate compensation or pension to civil service employes of the federal government, $15,600,000. 17—Establish courts of final vet eran’s repeal, $2,000,000. 18— Eliminate furnishing of cloth ing, $600,000. 19— Recentralize veterans’ activi ties, $8,000,000. 20— Eliminate $25 compensation for specific losses, .$2,000,000. 21— Permanent cases not to be rerated, $1,000,000. 22— Reduce all remaining benefits by 10 pei’cent, .$28,774,000. Savings from .salaries and ex pends, $12,970,000. Total saving, $485,192,000. Minus 25 per cent of direct bene fits for overlapping, $101,662,000. Net approximate savings, $383,- 530,000. The price of a drink! Let that one tell Who sleeps tonight in a murderer’s cell. And feels within him the fires of hell. Honor and virtue, love and truth, .All the glory and pride of youth, Hopes of manhood, the wreaths of fame. High endeavor and noble aim. These are the treasure.-^ thrown away As the price of drink, from day to day. “Five cents a glass!” How Satan laughed, .As over the bar the young man quaffed The beaded liquor; for the demon knew The terrible work that drink would do; And ere the morning the victim lay With his life-blood swiftly ebbing away; .And that was the price he paid, alas! For the pleasure of taking a social glass. of SELMA HIGH SCHOOL J. Friday Evening, March 31, Seven O’clock Query: Resolved, That North Carolina Should Adopt the Sales- .Tax As a Feature of Its State System of Revenue. Affirmative (Selma) Katherine Aycock Hazel Driver Negative (Lumberton) Henry Ward , Louise McMillan, or Murphy Bowman, Alt. Grow Sugar Spuds Every Crop Year adapted Farm Questions and Their Answers Given The price of a drink! If you want to know What some are willing to pay for it, go Through that wretched tenement over there, With dingy windows and broken stair. Where foul disease, like a vampire, crawls With outstretched wings o’er the mouldy walls. There poverty dwells with her hun gry brood. Wild-eyed as demons for lack of food; There shame, in a corner, crouches low; There violence deals its cruel blow; •And innocent ones are thus accu-^ed To pay the price of another’s thirst. “Five cents a glass!” Oh, if that were all. The sacrifice would, indeed,- be small! But the money’s worth is the least amount We pay; and whoever will keep ac count Will learn the terrible waste and blight That follows the ruinous appetite. “Five cents a gla-.s!” Does any one think That that is really the price of a drink ? Poultry Grazing Crops Subject of Bulletin Three cars of sweet potatoes were ■sold by Martin County farmers la.st week through the Carolina Sweet Potato .Association at Florence. Shipments of Broccolis are going forward from Scotland county by express until the crop matures to the extent that carlot .shipments can be made. HOARDERS GIVEN FOIHI MORE DAYS TO RETURN THEIR GOLD New A’ork, March 13.—Gold hoarders were given four more days in which to re.store their metal to the nation’s reserves today. The New York and other federal reserve banks received word that the date on which the lists of names of persons who had with drawn gold must be forwarded to Washington had been postponed from tomorrow' to next Thursday, March 17. Thirty-five Chatham county fann ers are planting new pastures this spring. Why poultry should have access to green grazing crops and the kinds to grow for this purpose are ex- ; plained in a new bulletin of the North Carolina Experiment Station and now available to poultry grow ers of the State. 'I’he publication discusses the \dta- min requirements for poultry, the nutrition (jualities of green feeds, the e sentials of a desirable graz ing crop, and those crops which may be growm in succession through out the year. The work reported upon was conducted largely at the State College poultry plant and while the publication is written in popular form, the facts are found ed upon careful scientific research. “1 believe this bulletin will be of tremendous value to poultry grow ers,” says Roy S. Dearstyne, one of the authors and head of the State College department of poultry. “For years we have been asked the ques tions w'hich we have sought to solve by this work. 1 suspect that hun dreds of letters have been written us in the last few years in which growers have requested the kind of information given in this publication. I am hopeful that it will be of some service to the industry.” Dr. R Y. Winters, Directors of the Station, says this publication is an entirely new departure in the South and the first of its kind in the field. P. H. Kime of the department of agronomy was asociated with Mr. Dearstyne in conduct of the research and is joint author of the bulletin. Copies may be had free of charge as long as the supply lasts by ad dressing a card or letter to the agricultural editor at State College. Sweet potatoes are adapted to North Carolina. They help in the food supply. They are easily grown. They keep well when handled and housed properly. They are essential to any live-at-home program. Therefore, says E. B. Morrow, ex tension horticulturists at State Col lege, some sweet potatoes should be grown every year on every North Carolina farm. Nor should one con sider the potatoes as an emergency crop. To the “in-and-outer” the crop is a gamble but to the man who plans to have an adequate acie- age each season, it is a source of food, feed and ca-h. “A -high yield per acre at a low cost of production per bushel is es sential for profit,” says. Mr. Morrow. “High yields are secured by plant ing disease-free seed stock, by set ting the plants reasonably early and by U'ing a high grade fertilizer. We had 183 growers in eastern Caro lina last year to use the improved Porto Rico strain developed by the Station and these men made an av6i’ag'6 of 58 bushels an acre more than with the regular seed. Other growers in 17 counties used the high grade fertilizer recommended and made an average increase per acre of 38 bushels.” Mr. Morrow says the Station rec ommends an 8-4-8 or an 8-4-10 mix ture for average eastern Carolina soils. In addition to these good cultural methods, Mr. Morrow also recom mends the use of curing houses in handling the harvested crop. For in stance, he has records of 125 to bacco barns in 26 eastern counties being remodeled for housing the sweets. The total capacity was 189,- 000 bushels. The potatoes so cured are bringing from 10 to 25 cents a bushel more on the market than are banked potatoes. Q. Under present financial con ditions would it be best to plant cheap seed or cut the acreage and plant only pedigreed seed ? A. Planting cheap seed is the most expensive investment a farm er can make .under any conditions. Plant a .-mailer acreage to the best- seed obtainable. The smaller plant ing will, in many cases, produce as much as the larger acreage plant ed to cheap seed. The land thus, re leased may be sown to legumes, such as cowpeas, clover, or lespe- deza as a soil building or grazing- crop. Q. How soon after farrowing should a sow be put on full feed ? A. The pigs should be at least, two weeks old before the sow is put on a full ration. No feed at all should be given the first day. after farrowing with a small amount of shipstuff, fed as a slop, on the se cond day. The ration is then grad ually increa-ed each day with the animal getting a full ration on the fourteenth day. Q. How far apart should I set, my corn rows to plant soybeans in the middles and how much seed will it take to plant an acre? A. Corn rows should be set about six feet apart where soybeans are to be grown in the middles. This .Blows for cultivation without dam age to the beans. With the corn. row.s six feet apart, it takes about twenty pounds of seed to plant an acre. U. B. Blalock Is Hopeful For Relief A TEXAS “PANHANDLER.” The “panhandling” business seems to be the only one that pays the.se days. One day the past week police at Fort Worth, Texas, trailed a man who makes a business of begging dimes on the street corners, and found that his bu-iness had been profitable to the extent of a hotel room and a large car with a chauf feur. A search of his room revealed $50 in dimes and nickels. The man made hi.s mistake when he took off h^s smoked glasses to inspect a dime that a woman had given him The woman reported him to the police. Brewers In Search For Brewmasters Burlington, Wis., March 19—The mail of Marcus Magerlein, president of the National Brewers’s Associa tion has been exceptionally heavy these last few days, he said. Most of the letters, he said, are inquiries from brewer.s who want to hire ex pert brewmasters. Mich, House Votes Mortgage Stay Bill 0 Hii 4 Raleigh, March 20—We are quite hopeful that something is going to be done for American agriculture at this se-sion of Congress. So stated U. Benton Blalock, president of the American Cotton Cooperative Association, upon hi.s return from Washington where he headed the cotton group in the co- ferences of farm group represent atives with Secretary of .Agriculture Wallace and the new F’arm Board chairman, Henry Morgenthau, Jr., at which plans were worked out for the agriculture bill. Asked for his opinion as to what effect the agriculture bill would have on cotton, Mr. Blalock replied that the “purpose of the Smith bill and any other plan or proposal under the bill would be to effect a heavy cut in the acreage of cotton and if .successful in doing this would un doubtedly have an appreciable effect on prices next fall.” “Flveryone recognizes that the great weight that is depressing the cotton market is just too much cotton,” he added. Coming to the bat for the peanut growers of North Carolina, Mr. Bla lock, w'ho was a member of the sub committee which determined the crops to be taken care of by the bill, pleaded for the inclusion of peanuts. He was outvoted as it wa-s thought best not to include t*o many crops at the outset. l.ansing, Mich., March 19 A bill authorizing the courts to suspend mortgage foreclosures until May 1, 1935, was adopted by the House. It gxjes to the Senate. The 16 Granges in Davidson Coun ty have a membership of 854 rural folks. All Granges are ^looperating in purchasing supplies for farm and home.
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