this business
A MATTER OF COMPARISON
Hold on there!" said I to Ely
daughter last Saturday momma
when I saw her getting out the big
yellow crock and the wooden spoon
and the butter and sugar preparato
ry to making our Sunday cake. "Per
haps we'd better have ginger bread
or fruit To 1 desert instead. Vou know
there's a shortage of sugar and
we've got to go mighty easy."
But we have been going easy."
sue reminided me. "No chocolate
.,auce for our ice cream last night.
So candied apples with the pork the
other day and never any candy. Be
sides. they say we'll be allowed 77
pounds o fsugar for each of us this
year ?nd that's quite a lot."
? What do you mean quite a lot,"'
I asked her. "It's a lot less than
we're used to and everybody is warr
nn- us to be carcful."
Well, it all depends on how you
look at it." my philosophie.il daugh
ter. now a junior in high school, de
clared. "If you compare it with what
we used to have here in the United
State; when the sky was the limit, it
isn't much. But when you compare It
with what they ate before the war in
other countries, we're still rolling in
sugar,"
"Do you happen to know how
Timely Farm Question* |
QUESTION: Is Information avail- '
able on the control of cattle lice?
ANSWER: The State College Ex- .
tension Service has recently publish- 1
ed a folder (No. 50) on "The Control !
of Cattle Lice." It is available free ;
upon request to the Agricultural Edi
tor. State College, Raleigh. The fold- j
tr was prepared especially for 4-H
Club members.
QUESTION: What small fruits
are adapted to the various sections
of North Carolinas?
ANSWER : Strawberries, dewber
ries, blackberries and grapes are
recommended throughout the State
by H. R. Niswonger, of State Col
lege. Raspberries are adapted to all
except the Eastern part#of the State.
"Plant a few fig bushes." Niswonger
suggests. "Set strawberries 24 inches
apart, the cane fruits five to six fee:
apart, bunch grapes 10 feet apart,
bunch grapes 10 feet apart, and mus
cadine grapes 20 feet apart."
QUESTION: Will a storage bat
tery. in a farm tractor or other ma
chine, freeze in cold weather?
ANSWER: D. S. Weaver. Exten
sion agricultural engineer of State
College, says a discharged battery
will freeze at slightly under 32 de
greess Fahrenheit, with possible
damage to the plates. If the battery
is kept charged, the solution will
withstand a much lower temperature
without freezing. Weaver says that
a storage battery has less than one
half the normal statrting capacity
when the temperature is at zero.
Maximum starting capacity is at 80
degrees Fahrenheit.
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much they did eat in these other
countries?" I asked . pinning her
down
"It's all in my school notebook !
Just wait until I get it." And In an
other few minutes she was giving me
chapter and verse on the world sugar
situation. Maybe you'U be as sur
prised as I was at the actual facts.
It seems that in 1937 and 1938 I
when things were still going along
in a fairly normal way. the average
Frencliman aw unij 55 puuuds of
sugar per year, in spite of all their
wonderful little "gateaus" and fancy .
chocolate concoctions. The Russians i
ate only 29 pounds per person and
the Poles 28 The Dutch, whom
we've always thought of as living 1
very well, ate aDout 64 founds of
1 ugar each year. In Gr?>t Britain
! liey 1 iuii i much sweeter ime wi'h
108 pound", per person, bu' Australia
I did even bet er getting X'S uounds
|i<ich. Bui that was still \v\l l>elow
i the Amen an Average.
I panson. A . * 'I Ar.v.icans in war time
: live better than many Europeans in
! the days of pcacc! We've taken too
I many nf our advanta??s far granted
I and too often overlooked the fact
j that our free industrial system has
I made us used to standard of living
undreamed of in many lands.
MARBLE NEWS
Herman and Dugan West have re- j
turned from a visit to Akron, Ohio.
Everyone is glad to know that Ra- 1
monia and Alvin Cooke, children of
.VT r. and Mrs. Arthur Cooke, are im
proving after being in Murphy Hos
i pital with pneumonia.
j Miss Pauline Beaver, from Gasto
' nia, is visiting relatves here.
Mrs. Lucille Brakebill, from New
' port. Tenn., spent last week here
with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. M
Trull, and sister, Mrs. Arthur Pal
mer.
Mrs Frank Walsh was conlined tc
j her home last week due to tonsillitis.
Howard Trull, Charles Ballard and
i Hub Baxter left tlii sweek lor the
army.
The P. T. A. will meet Flinty af
j lernoon. March 13th, in the School
i auditodium.
| The honor roll for February has i
I been anounced by Principal J. Prank I
I Walsh, of the Marble school, as fol- ;
lows:
First Grade ? Mrs. Ocie Foster,
teacher: Kent Ladd. Hoyle Parker,
Fred West, and Maxine Trull.
| Second Grade ? Miss Elizabeth
; Kilpatrick. teacher; Kenneth Coffey,
I Jackie Ingram, Loyal Trull. Maurice
! West, Alma Coffey, Betty Kilpatrick. j
i Janice King. Marilyn Littlejolm and ,
I Reba West.
Third Grade ? Mrs. Carrie Wora
j ack. teacher: Betty Ann Barton. Mil
, died Day, Mary Nell Lovingood, Hel
j en Totherow, Betty Lou Taylor, Win
I nie Lee West, Eugene Griggs, Bobbv
I Hass, Robert Kilpatrick. Harley Lov- i
ingood. and William Marr.
Fourth Grade ? Mrs. Carrie I
Womack anrt Miss Hazel Chambers,
teachers: Leona Howard and Winnie
Ttaxter.
Fifth Grade ? Miss Hazel Cham
bers, teacher: Jean Thompson. Mau
rice Hall. Bobby Ingram. Morgan I
Kilpatrick and Le Roy Walsh.
Sixth Grade ? Mrs. Leila Axley,
teacher; Dorothy Mae Coffey and
Mary Willie Howard.
Seventh Grade ? J. Frank Walsh,
teacher; Pearl Griggs. Nelle Rodgers.
Eugene Onann, Boyd Hedrlck, and
Joe Mlntz.
The perfect attendance list fol
lows:
First Grade ? Lynn Ooode. Es
tavee Holden. Kent Ladd. Willis Lov
ingood. Hoyle Parker. Richard
Stamper, Maxine Trull and Fred
West.
Second Grade ? Jackie Ingram,
Loyal Trull, Alma Coffey, Janice
King, and Marilyn Littlejohn.
Third Grade ? Betty Lois Bo ling.
Robert Browning, Mildred Day, Eu
gene Griggs, Bobby Hass. Bobby
Ladd. William Marr, Harold Stamp
er and Winnie Lee West.
Fourth Grade ? Stokes Day and
Leona Howard.
STRAIGHT FROM
NEW YORK
Fifth Grade ? Devereaux Barton,
Alice Derretoerry, and Ruby Stiles.
Sixth Grade ? Dorothy Mm CW
fey and Mary Willie Howard,
i Seventh Orade ? Henry Bras we 11.
Boyd Hedrick. Joe MinU. George
| Gnann. Eugene Gnann, Pearl Griggs.
Lena Jenkins, Marie Pendergras and
i Nelle Rodgers.
o
AX THE AXIS
He Beant It Too
A Paris movie house, the Grand
Guignol. recently featured a creepy
thriller, entitled "The House of Slow
Death." Outside the theater, next to
the poster advertising the program,
the manager placed a large notice:
"Visitors to Paris Are Cordially Wel
comed." The only visitors in Paris
today are Nazis.
Carolina Sells Army
Fruits, Vegetables
Valued At $190,000
North Carolina fruits and vegeta
bles. valued at $190,000 liave been
frd to eoldiers at Fori Bragg and
Camp Davis during the pas: olns
months.
Tin- quality of North Carolina
fruits and vegetables sold to tbs
Army has been nlg-hiy praised try of
ficials
The list of fruits and vegetables
include:
Vegetables ? Snap beans, beeta.
broccoli, cabbage, carrots, cauliflow
er. egg plant, sweet corn, cucumber*,
lettuce. lima beans (shelled and un
shelled). mustard greens, okra. Irish
potatoes. 9quash. sweet potatoes
rape, rutabagas, turnips, turnip
green*, tomatoes, splnacl.
Fruits ? Apples, blueberries, can
taloupes. dewberries. strawberries,
peaches, watermelons.
More North Carolina Irish potatoes
were purchased than any other sin
gle commodity: 40.000 bushels valued
at approximately $30,000.
Apples and peaches led the fruit
purchases: 5.200 bushels of apples
and 5.300 bushels of peaches.
Other leading fruits and vegeta
bles purchased included' jweet po
tatoes 35,000 bushels; snap beam
23,000 bushels; cantaloupes.
crates; watermelons, 31,000.
Dann Not Out
Although Denmark is not officially
at war with Germany .more than
10.000 Danish seamen are now serv
ing on merchant and naval vessels
of the United Nations and are thus
doin? their bit against Hitler.
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Russian Grain
When the Russian armies with
drew fif>m f/)Uthem Russia last fall,
they carefully took with them seed
grain from vane ties especially bred
for that region. This grain has beea
planted In suitable areas of Canada
to be available after the war.
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in providing this specialized service
LEADER
in administering it
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