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Rural School Outlook; North Carolina Better Conditions are improving foi the country school boy and girl in North Carolina, and a more en couraging outlook is seen for the new year, according to a research bulletin of the National Educational association that is just off the press, The trend is upward despite discouraging reports from other southern states, the increase of the term being five per cent for the current session. A better showing might have been revealed, had all the teachers in the 100 counties, or the officials thereof, made reports on conditions. Only 24 per cent of the counties have been heard from, and much of the data as to the state is esti mated. Taking past reports as a basis, it is estimated that as to salaries, 13,138 teachers in the state are receiving less than $75 0 a year, while 3,688 are being paid below $450. The average number of pu |-pils to a teacher is 40. During the ] current■ytar’s work, 13 schools have been closed, and 650 children have been affected being for the most part transferred to other schools, j General retrenchment has been : practiced all along the line, and in I this respect colleges and universi ! ties have also adopted a policy to | keep going on the smallest sums possible, and at the same time maintain their high standards. DOG CAUSES FIRE \ Oklahoma City—Corky, Julius Merson’s fox terrier, thought he knew what to do when the ignited a piece of paper with which he had been playing before a fire. He ran 1 with the burning paper into a clothes closet and dropped it. Dam age was $ 5 0. WatYc*n2S^ 7 Another Wonderful Flight 1 QN BOARD THE BYRD FHAU SHIP JACOB RUPPERT: (via Mackay Radio) Jan. 4: And now, after three months in the engine room of this great steel oil burn ing ship, 1 am starting on the sec ond and most important phase of my training as an Antarctic ex plorer and aviator. 1 have been as signed at last to the aviation de partment! Now 1 am working di rectly under that great flyer, Harold June, of Darien, Stamford and Bridgeport, Conn., the Expedition's chief aviator and the other mem bers oi me unit. They are '’sui Swan, of Washington, Kan-' ! 1 ono- I - bach, of Bradley Beach, N. J.; Ralf Smith, of Freder icktown. Ohio; William Bowlin, of Indianapolis; William McCor mack, of Lans downe, Pa„ and E. J. Demas, of Washington, D C. They're a fine r.l.illf..l__a_I Commodore Mi ev 1 in proud to bo one of them. With Admiral Byrd we’re going to make aviation history. It is an unparalleled opportun y for me to train with all types aeronautical equipment — bi Piane, monoplane, autogiro — single and twin engines from 120 to 525 h.p.—very latest instruments, radio and other equipment—every kind of landing gear including pontoons, •' heels and skiis. All the planes, eady for quick use, are in the holds i-vf’pnt tho hicr PnnHm' whir»h ic t the after deck on a special era with its wings extending out ov<_. the water on each side. The pecu liarly hazardous position of this machine has several times affected the course of our vessel, especially in the gales we have met. Commo dore Gjertsen must frequently man euvre the ship so the Condor won’t be ripped overboard by the wind. Yesterday (Jan. 4 with you— Jan. 3 with us) Admiral n rd, with June at the controls, a. Bowlin, Pelter and Peterson, maue another grand Might in the Condor. Mark it on your club maps—along the 117th Meridian from 116.35 west 69 75 south 150 miles to 72.30 south and back. Use a blue pencil tor this flight and keep your map very carefully A little later we’re going to announce a contest for the most accurate maps kept by club mem bers Instead of finding land, as he thought he might. Admiral Byrd reported that nothing but sea ice was visible and the Eastern coast of the supposed Antarctic contin ent is still undiscovered In fact, ihe flight allowed the Admiral to »ay that approximately 200,000 •flare miles of unknown territory, vhich explorers have thought •light be part of the Antarctic land, 'ij officially be put down on fu •ure maps as "Pacific Ocean." Seems to me that if this Expedition rceomplishes nothing else, this one •vploiation Bight, coupled with the 'irie on Dec. 22, has established a ‘•i?h value for this trip. But don’t worry! We’re going to do a lot of otV.i.T big things. I'm getting a bit fed up with ice f-rgs and their terrifying collisions and fights with each other. Admiral Byrd flew over one we could see from the ship—25 miles long and tour miles wide. Imagine! When I left Harvard 1 thought 1 was through with school forever. Not so. Together with the rest of the crowd on board I have been busy -on a post-graduate course. All across the Pacific we had three lectures weekly on such things as Physics. Transportation and Dogs. Biology, Scott Expedition, Photog raphy, Geology and Geophysics, Shackleton Expeditions. Camping and Trail Parties, Meteorology. Cooking, Clothing and a dozen other subjects, with our own experts do ing the lecturing. Needless to e**v. all our minds are crammed with knowledge we didn’t have before and now that we are in the great ice pack, we are finding daily use fn t* 4* rT'V» o IT- vhqH 11 inn 4a nrAtrino a wonderful education. Every day i man in charge and ask him all about it—Mukluks (skin bootj3). Parkas" (hooded coats), sleeping bags, portable radio transmitting and receiving sets for use out jjon the trail. It is difficult to grasp what a tremendous undertaking this is until one actually sees the myriad, of details involved—and still each department functions as smoothly and "casually as if two year Ant arctic Expeditions were ordinary occurrences. The supply officer is going in and out of holds and store rooms all day long checking and se gregating thousands of boxes crates and packages intended foi Little America. Everything intend ed for the ice is marked “Barrier’ and in my sleep I can hear the sup ply officer yelling “Drop that, it’s for the barrier!” Now we’re constructing dog sledges. It’s interesting. Not one piece of metal goes into their as embly. not a nut or bolt or nail aey are made of eleven pieces oi I ,ery tough and resilient wood, tongued and grooved. We are lash ing them together with thin strips of rawhide, permitting them to yield to shocks and stresses without breaking the wood. Capt. Innet Taylor, in charge of the dogs, told me today that an ordinary team consists of nine dogs and that the average load is around a thousand pounds, sometimes greatly exceeded for short distances. I’he dogs are being measured and fitted with harness and seem to be looking forward to the comparative freedom of the ice Poor dumb smelly brutes! every time a dog Is fitted to his harness he goes into a eanihe ecstacy of barking, yelping and wriggling. The harness consists of a collar, like a miniature horse collar, a set of traces and a snaffle ring for attaching the dog to the lead line. The dog drivers say the dogs must be watched carefully be cause they sometimes get so hun gry they eat the harness. A radio from New York tells me the maps we are sending to mem bers so they can mark them and thus Keep track of our flights, tractor trips and other explora tions are reaay ana are oemg scm to members without cost. They tell me the club membership is now well up In the thousands so if you haven’t joined now is the time to send me a self-addressed stamped envelope at the Little America Aviation and Exploration Club, Ho tel Lexington, 48th Street and Lex ington Avenue, New York, N. Y„ and get your membership card and map, without any obligation of any sort. This club is a favorite hobby of Admiral Byrd’s, to encourage American aviation, and he hopes to have at least 100,000 members be fore we get back. (Next Week:—Off for Little America!) Best Bird Winner i NEW YORK: . . . C. N. Meyers I of Hanover, Pa., bred and raised the 1 best Plymouth Rock cockerel shown at the National New York Poultry Show. He is shown above by Marie Felique, as experts crowded around to proclaim the cockerel the best of | its species ever showm in the IT S. j He won ‘ ‘ best bird ’ ’ ribbon. -! Will Allot Cotton For Parity, Payments Cotton growers should thorough ly acquaint themselves with the individual farm allotment for farms brought under the 1934-35 cotton contract, for it will play an import ant part in determining adjustment payments from the government, according to County Agent W. G. Yeager. The allotment for each farm is 40 percent of the average annual production during the 1928-32 base period. The exact poundage is figured by multiplying the average annual acreage of the period by the average yield per acre and then taking 40 percent of the result. For an example, a grower with a five-year average of 40 acres in cotton with an average yield1 of 200 pounds to the acre would have an average production of 8,000 pounds. Forty percent of this would be 3,200 pounds, which' would be his individual domestic: allotment. The domestic allotment has been set at 40 pecent of the average an nual yield because in past years 40 per cent of the national crop was1 consumed in the United States. The other 60 percent was exported or held over. This 40 percent rep resents the amount of cotton from which the government can count on collecting the processing tax to furnish funds for rental and parity payments. Dean I. O. Schaub, State College, has pointed out that to allow one grower a larger allotment than his past production warrants would re sult in the allotments of other growers being cut below their just figure, since the total individual domestic allotments cannot amount to more than the domestic allot ment for the State. The State’s domestic allotment has been figured on its average past production just as are the allotments for individual farms. The cotton contracts guarantee( a parity payment^ of not less than! one cent a pound on the farmers’! domestic allotment. This means aj payment of at least $6 a bale on 40j percent of the average production of cotton during the basg period. This payment is in addition to the rental payments and the increased1 prices the farmers will get when 'hey market their crop, it was pointed out. SENT FOR WOOD, MAN STAYS AWAY 20 YEARS Loudon, Tenn.—"Here’s that wood,” Robert Byrd greeted his mother, after a two-decade absence. Robert had gone to Texas instead of the woodpile when his mother, Mrs. John Byrd, sent him for wood 20 years ago. She hadn’t heard; from hint until he came home whenj he heard she was ill and remember-j ed to brine in an armful of wood; •with him. BEEN SMOKING 91 YEARS Fort Wayne, Tnd.—James Treece who just celebrated his hundredth birthday, attributes his long life to! hard work, plenty of exercise, and smoking. A constant pipe smok er, he says he began smoking at the age of nine. ' ■ --- PATROLMEN ARREST 5 57 Raleigh—State highway patrol men in December traveled 90,486 miles, arrested 5 57 motorists for violating traffic laws, warned 6, 924 law violators and collected $73,083.25 of the state treasury. | Babson Lauds Gold Policy Tampa, Fla.—President Rojose felt's gold plans will stabilize the lollar and encourage trade, in the .dew of Roger Babson, noted eco aomist, of Boston and" Babson Park, 'la. "President Roosevelt has done a .'ery clever thing,” Babson said re • garding the President’s intention :o take over all gold monetary itocks and revalue the dollar at 60 rents, "although Senator Glass may ae justified in questioning its hon rsty. "With a large amount of gold n the 'Treasury, the government vill be able to issue several millions )f additional currency, secured by, gold on a sound basis. "With gold bid up by the RFC to nearly double its statutory price, the President claims the government needs only half as much to secure the outstanding currency. "The Democratic platform took! 1 po ition for sound currency, and Mr. Roosevelt backed this plat form. "However, this move will sti’bil ze the dollar, encourage trade and facilitate borrowing and lending abroad. "The dollar value has been bob ning up and down. When people didn’t know the value of the dollar they hastened to buy or sell, thus greatly retarding foreign trade.” Black-Draught Clears Up Sluggish, Dull Feeling “I have used Thedford’s Black Draught for constipation for a long time, and find it gives relief for this trouble,” writes Mrs. Frank Champion, of Wynne, Ark. “I think it is good for spells caused from gas on the stomach. If I get up in the morning feeling dull and sluggish, a dose of Black Draught taken three times a day will cause the feeling to pass away, and in a day or two I feel like a new person. After many years of use we would not exchange Black Draught for any medicine.” P. S. — If you have Children, give them the new, pleasant-taeting BYRUP of Thedford’s Black-Draught. “So you want a position as steno grapher, young lady? What are pour qualifications?” "Well—my father is a bad shot.” Austere Aunty—"Young man, don’t argue with me. Why, I knew you when you were but a wicked gleam in your father’s eye.” “Are you musical.''" "No!” 'Well quit fiddling around my knee.” 1 T I hese extra Bolls ■ rr ' " and improved staple come from Royster Field Tested Fertilizer A FEW extra bolls on each plant make a lot of difference in your yield—they may mean the j difference between a profit and j a loss. That’s why it stands to j reason that if you’re growing cotton you ought to use*the fer tilizer that has stood the test of time for nearly 50 years, under ' actual growing conditions. That J means Royster’s. Don’t take any chance when you buy your fertilizer. You have to take enough chance on the weather. Let Royster’s ma ture your cotton early and help you beat the rainy season and the weevil. Remember this: Royster’s is made in one quality only—the best. You can pay more or you - | can pay less, but you cannot buy better fertilizer for growing |i cotton. Royster experts are continu- I ally studying cotton, learning all there is to know about fertilizing it. They never stop experiment- jj ing and improving. They test every fertilizer in the laboratory, and field-test it in the cotton field. Only refined materials are used to make sure that the purest obtainable grades go into Roy ster sacks. As a result we know that Royster Cotton Fertilizer will give you the results you want. See your Royster dealer today and let him know how many tons you need. F. S. ItOYSTER GUANO COMPANY, NORFOLK, VIRGINIA Charlotte, N.C., Columbia, S.C., Atlanta, Ga., Montgomery, Ala., Jackson, Miss. ^ f ROYSTER'S I fERTlUlER ,/ i ster ft FIELD TESTED FERTILIZERS 3c3~ 3 | _ 1 ■' ..»-* _ — j Heat with Coke . . . the clean efficient fuel TO OWNERS OF ELECTRICAL and GAS APPLIANCES! I As a special courtesy to our patrons, we will provide all labor FREE to put your electrical and gas appliances in first class con dition. Just bring them in tomorrow, or any day. Our repair department will give them a thorough overhauling at no cost to you, except for necessary materials. 1 1 Do not forego the. convenience of your electric and gas appliances any fl longer. Let us put them in condition for use without delay. §1 SOUTHERN PUBLIC I UTILITIES CO. I * PHONE 1900 9 Ride the street cats and avoid the parking nuisance Ip r
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