: 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."
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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.
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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
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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.
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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). >
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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.
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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.
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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.
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General Eloctric balirvaa that it* first duty a* a
food citizan ia to ba a food aoldlar.
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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.
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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.
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+ 61 years' use
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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.
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$1.25 up
Cold Pack
Canners
$1.49
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ROOFINO
$1.25
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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
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$24.95
IRONING
BOARDS
$1.79 up
ODORO
Moth-Proof
Wardrobes
$2.29
| GOLD SEAL RUQS $5.95 np |
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