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: Observations : ; ; By W. P. 8HELTON < ; AMONG THE MANY things] this country needs at the present time is a new bureau. Net jj that we don't' | have enough | bureaus now g but somewhere f| in the national | sef- up space f| should be pro- |> vided for the jfl proposed new ? office s in c e there is a cry ing need to be met. Sheltoa SO HERE and now we propose a bereau to prevent the ill-ad vised, vote-seeking and confusing spoutings of^ Congressmen. THE ^EED of such a bureau was mosfl emphatically brought out by tpe recent remarks of Representative May that the war would soon be over and it would not be necessary to draft* married pen and so forth. Mr. May gave as the basis for bis remarks tbat mystical source of so much political babel, "confidential in formation." v ' P.ER.HAES MA J. seer th?t he is, cSn foretell exactly how we are going to regain our rub ber sources In Malaya; the wealth of the Philippines and other Pa-< cific islands lost' to the Japs. Perhaps, Mr. May in his infinite wisdom, can tell us why the Japs, lodged within easy striking dis-| tance of our Pacific Coast, have not been dislodged from our own Aleutian Islands. REPRESENTATIVE May should ask his confidential sour ces how the war can be shorten ed unless there is some offensive action on our part or does he know that we have been fighting a defensive action from Mie very first and are still on the defen sive. He, as chairman of the | House Military Affairs Commit tee, should above any average man know that' outside of the battle of production and the ac tions in the Corral Sea and off Midway we have tost every en- 1 gagement wit'h the enemy. WE SINCERELY hope Mr. May is right but when an able man such as Secretary of War Stimson. who is not running for office, says we may have to draft men down to t'he ages of 18 and draft labor for war work then it is apparent that there is some thing wrong, eit'her with Mr. May's or Mr. Stimson's informa tion. WE ARE NOT particularly anxious to have Mia aforemen tioned bureau set up -for the ex clusive purpose of censoring Mr. May but oi'ber politicians as well. You can pick up almost any daily paper and see statements from this and that public official f<hat are denied and refuted by our own knowledge or by ^.others in officialdom. And so misinforma tion continues with one saying there is plenty of sugar and an other saying rationing of jugar is necessary. Still another. "We need a ten million man Army." Another, ''Four million men in the. Army will be enough." ONE THING we are certain of is that these remarks by suppos edly well informed men have created considerable confusion in the American mind. In a man ner they serve to undermine the national unity that is so much to be desired. These politicians, whomever and wherever they are, should, in gome manner, be co ordinated before they open their collective or respective mouths for publication. ALL OP WHICH reminds one of the late Will Rogers when ask ed by a critic why he made fun of Congress. "I don't make fun of Congress." replied Will, "I just report what they do." H ? n TO HOLD OFF inflation the government has set one billion dollars as the monthly War Bond quota for the nation. Not only does the nation need this money to prosecute the war but to keep down a steadily building buying power in the face of a scarcity of certain commodities. We will either buy these bonds voluntar ily or we will buy them by law, that much is certain. It is nec essary to the health of national finances that this be done and here is why: IN 1943 the American people will have thirty billion dollars more income than the value of ttiings for which the money can be spent. This is on the author ity of Commerce Secretary Jones. WITH MONET plentiful and certain commodities scarce a vic ibus circle is started with infla tion bonnd to result and forcing the breaking of any and all ceil ing prices. FOR INSTATE ? man has a hundred dollar refrigerator he wants to Mil and twenty, people ?tart bidding for that rafrlgera tor. The original owner will [ probably receive $200 for his re frigerator. Thus a refrigerator that is worth one thing is sold for twice its value but the man that bought it had to have it so I he must apply to his employer for a raise to meet the added cost of living. The vicious circle thus is started. Multiply this , little incident by one hundred and thirty million people and ' you have a panic with a dollar worth 50 cents. WE EITHER must buy bonds or have surplus money removed, by taxation to stave off inflation. We believe our government is much too clever to ever allow in flation to happen. a Women's Navy Auxiliary Receives Final Approval Washington, July 21. ? A mea-j sure creating a corps o 1 shore- 1 bound sailorettes to relieve thou-/ sands of naval officeVs and men for sea duty weat-hered a squall I of ridicule in the House today and received final Congressional approval. Formation of the feminine aux iliary ? naval counterpart of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps already in training ? awaited on ly President Roosevelt's signa ture. s ? }?' But before the legislation sail ed on from the Congressional' halls, where It has ridden at' an-! chor for several weeks, Repre-^ sentative Vincent (D-Ky.) enter-: ed a last-minute plea for its re jection, protesting that "this is' no time to put butterflies in the N4vy." Representative Vinson (D-Ga.)l chairman of t'he House naval committee, argued, however, that the nation's women are "anxious to play an even larger part in the prosecution of the war. and i this will give them a chance by freeing for sea duty these light ing boys who have been given ' desk jobs." The Georgian reported that | t'he Navy had informed him that ' the auxiliary would release 882 officers and 8.848 enlisted men, now holding down shore billets. Grade for grade, the sailor- j ettes would receive the same pay 1 as their brother gobs. Vinson \ said rtiat the commanding officer ' would be given the rank of Lieutenant Commander and that 1 she probably would be "one of the leading educators in the country." Service of t'he sailorettes would be restricted to the continental United States, and t'hey would be j barred from duty aboard planes1 or combat vessels. Their assign ments would range from decod ing secret messages to "culinary" I tasks. Vinson said. But' Vincent, noting in the bill i a provision for a $200 uniform! I allowance, declared that the Navy "is not going to spend $200 dressing up a girl, and then put | her in the kitchen." He offered t'O bet, too. that j I there would be no grades in the j feminine reserve lower than an 1 Ensign. "If she isn't an en Mgti." he said, "she,'ll be mad as the devil." He argued that creation of the uniformed corps would "reflect'" upon women in the Civil Service now working for the Navy itself. He said that every Navy man with whom he talked about the legislation had told him: "For God's sake, fight it on the floor." J | o Will England, demonstration farmer of the Sweetwater section, is the first farmer In Graham County to grow alfalfa, and he reports good results from his ex periment. EXCELLENT WHEAT YIELD Five years ago there was ail!, old sating among the farmers of Franklin County, North Carolina, t'hat, "You can't grow small grain in Franklin County." To day this old adage has almost been forgotten as the farmers o 1 this county have just completed harvesting approximately 7,000 acres of small grain. The disaproval of this old theory has been brought about by a few of the leading farmers who believed that the growing of small grain and lespedeza bad a definite place in a well balanced farm program in their County. These farmers then rolled up their sleeves and went to work to show that it could be done and done successfully. Last' fall a cooperator of the Tar River Soil Conservation Dis trict, Mr. Henry Hunt, of Louis burg, Route No. 1, planted 5 acres of Carala wheat'. He seed ed 10 bushels of certified seed in the middle of October and uBed 1800 lbs. of 4-10-6 fertilizer at the Mme of seeding. One hund red lbs. of 10-0-10 top dressing per acre was applied about the middle of February, and one hun dred lbs. of nitrate of soda per acre was broadcast' in March. Mr. Hunt combined this 5 a?te plot in the early T?rt .at. June and the total yield was 150 bushels or 30 bushels per a c r e. T^iis was a lit-tle more than double the average yield for Franklin County. Mr. Hunt' kept a record of the cost of producing this wheat and found } that the total cost was $75.00 or $15.00 per acre. He is planning , to have the wheat' certified and ' sell it for seed and will probably realize a neat profit over the cost of producing it. mis particular neiu niigni have produced 15 bushels of corn 6 years ago according to Mr. Hunt. By proper rotation, fertil ization. and contour Milage Mr. Hunt has built up the cultlvatjble land on his 540 acre farm to the point where Mils year he produc ed 400 bushels of wheat, barley, and oats on 15 acres of land. He is gradually cutting down on his corn acreage and substituting oats and barley for feed for his live stock. "Now that farm labor l? get ting to be a problem." says Mr. Hunt, -"I find that the substitu tion of small grain for corn Is a sound program." All the Agri cultural Agencies in Franklin County have been pushing this program Of reducing the corn acreage for the past several years, and today the results are begin ning to he seen not only on Mr. Hunt's farm but on farms all over the <?trt ittty. o ?On Pay Day, Buy Bond* ? ? NEW MONEY FOR YOUR OLD THINGS Your Discarded Furniture, Piano, Radio, Bicycle, Tools, Ice Box, can be aold with A WANT AD IN THIS NEWSPAPER $ Patronize TIMES Advertiser* EXPERT CLEANING AND PRESSING OUR MANY COMPLIMENTS FROM OUR CUSTOMERS MAKE US KNOW WE ARE DOING OUR BEST IN DRY CLEANING. LET US HELP YOU KEEP YOUR CLOTHES LOOKING LIKE NEW. FOR A-l DRY CLEANING ... Telephone 446-1 ? Satisfaction Guaranteed ! Save Your Clothes for Your Country HAVE THEM CLEANED AT SERVICE DRY CLEANERS Edgar Fuller, Prop. E. T. Jones, Mgr. LOUISBURG, N. 0. To Fort Bragg The local Selective Draft Board eporte the Induction of the fol owing draftees, all white, on Saturday: ?Villiam Lamar Perry, Louisburg. ,'hurchill Ray Pruitt, Forest ? Oter. ViUiam Augui-ta Hardy, Rocky Mount'. laiirlce Clifton Joyner, Louis burg. >eth Baj* Turner, Louisburg. irvin Woodrow Jones, R 1, Nash ville. lalph Wilson Mitchell, R, 2, Spring Hope. Viiliani Jackson Coppedge, R 4, Louisburg. , 5erry Winston Griffin, R 2, Louisburg. ames Thomas Henry, Spring Hope, R. 'ercy Lee Pernell, E11>eron. Jugena. Morgan Williams, R 2, Louisburg. Smest Stell Patterson, R 3, Louisburg. Uex Edwin Arnold, R 1, Spring Hope. truest' Moore Wilder, R 4* Louis burg. lugh Beam Gupton, Wood. Juck Perry,. R 1, Franklinton. Jeorge Curtis Tharrington, R 3, Louisburg. ienry Hubert Chambers, Frank linton. rewre-raromwrff TPinw, Frank lintonv Dd Lawrence Moye, R 4, Louis burg. lames Lewis Moss, R 2, Kittrell. ?Villie Hamilton Sanderford, R 4, Louisburg. iVillis Elmo Stricklanl, R 2. Franklinton. Nathaniel Edward Pendleton, Rl, Louisburg. Claud Edward Hunt, R 2, Frank linton. Sylvester Bailey Rogers, Frank linton. Ira Preddy. Jr., Franklinton. John Young Perdue, R 3, Louis burg. Cleacy Webb House, R 2, Louis burg. Richard Bullock Henderson, Franklinton. Melvln Edward Harris, Fran kiln ton. , Paul Melvin Duke, R 3, Louis burg. June Preston Tharrington, R 4, Louisburg. Raymond Odell Perry, R 1, Spring Hope. Eulie Hubert Champion, Frank linton. John Hubert Perry, R 1, Louis burg. Frederick Robert Blackley, Franklinton. Elwood Haynes Jones, R 2, Louis burg. William Herbert Goodwin, Frank linton. The following have already en listed: Brantley Gray Wester, Newport News, Va., (formerly Louis burg, R 4). George Preston Mooney, Newport News, Va., (formerly R 2, Zebulon). > o A banner year for American livestock and crop production ap peals to be In the making as a result . joL. excellent growing. coat., dit'ions over most of the country this year. o Some 3,500 persons are burned to ,death in fires on American farms and inrural communities (each year, and the total loss runs , to approximately $200,000,000. o ? On Pay Day, Buy Bonds ? War Research In war the advantage is on the aide with the best weapons. The work of scientists in America's research laboratories, developing new materials and new equipment, means a lot to our fighting men. l. it taices years to ouiia up ana equip a large, organized, and able staff for research. Fortunately, in dustry did this long ago. t. Long ociore feiri Harbor, laboratories like General Electric'a were terving their country ? aolving technical problem* of war. 3. History repeat!) In the lut war "wirelett" wal developed for mili tary needi ? to become, with peace, a giant broadcasting industry. 4. So it will be thi? time. Research will hel# to win the war. and ita many wartime discoveries will help to build a better future. ? General Eloctric balirvaa that it* first duty a* a food citizan ia to ba a food aoldlar. General Electric Company, Schenectady, N. Y. GENERAL# ELECTRIC JEWELRY Watches, Diamonds, Clocks Watch Bands (all kind) Wedding Rings, Silver Gifts Fountain Pens, Bill Folders RADIOS Gifts, of All Kind EXPERT REPAIRS *To any Watch or Radio. RAYNOR'S RADIO AND JEWELRY SHOP Louiaburg, N. C. "We Sell the Best and Service the Rest" The 1942 commercial early crop of Irish potatoes is estima ted to be 48.758.OOU bushels, a 15 per cent increase over the 1931-40 ten-year average of 4-, -S3 bushels. ? WaT production strengt'h of the Nation's farms was increased last year by application of AAA con servation materials far abovt these of any previous year. WOMEN! Modern facts + 61 years' use speak for CARDUI SNAKE 'mytxym Xft qsinq to cost BilUont t? tftfenqthtfep! . 0*9 M.WA* wmtuMnw. U.S. Treasury Department ! I Bonds or bondage. TOBACCO THREAD 48c lb. ? 10 lbs. or more. ARSENATE OF LEAD ! 14c lb. CALCIUM ARSENATE 10c lb. UNICO Sprayers and Dusters ? Best quality and lowest prices. Fly Spray --- the kind that's guaranteed to kill flies. Electric Fencers and supplies. Bale ties. BABY CHICKS, feed and supplies. FCX Flour ? Prices Down. * Burk's Water Pumps, Used Sinks & Lavatories. One more 8 lb. Apex Washing Machine. ASHLEY AUTOMATIC HEATERS. Get yours now. Our allotment is less than 100 for next season. The scarcity of fuel oil will have us sold out before cold weather. FRANKLIN FARMERS . EXCHANGE Phone 366-1 Louisburg, N. C. < f m - m A -m, .A .A . 1 ? /J PiQ^eMiOHcd Painting, *7ifx: ^1 IitaVah ~S PAINTS-ENAMELS VARNISHES VITA-VAR House Paint GAL. (iuiiraiitml 10<>% Pure. You nnnot buy h SO.JK fliK-r h?UNr point. " HYLUSTRE House Paint OAL. \\> liMDillr nil kln<l? an<1 nr?(l? of M.SO paints. ' LAWN MOWERS ? GRASS BLADES Tobacco Sprayers and Arsenate of Lead HAND SAWS $1.25 up Cold Pack Canners $1.49 . ROLL ROOFINO $1.25 BICYCLE REPAIRS Bike Lights ... 89c Bike Baskets . . $1.50 Bike Forks... $1.95 Bike Chains . . . 98c ELECTRICAL & PLUMBING MATERIALS FURNITURE VALUES ! ! ? 13 Pc. Bed Room I SUITES .. $44.95 | 19x12 Linolieum RUGS ..... $3.69 I* COOKING RANGES $24.95 IRONING BOARDS $1.79 up ODORO Moth-Proof Wardrobes $2.29 | GOLD SEAL RUQS $5.95 np | K C. TAYLOR Hardware & Furniture Phone 423-1 / Louiiborg, H. 0.
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