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MONDAY, FEB. 15, 1937
Richer Lauds Our No. 1 Need
In spite of the fact that the prosperity
of agriculture is a matter of vital concern
to both town and country, it is doubtful
whether many farmeis or many business
men could give an unhesitating answer to
the question, “What is the first essential
to the prosperity of agriculture?’’ Hero
is an answer given in ^-he leading editor;:'.!
responsibilities of enforcement,^engineer
ing, education, sdf-discipline. The film
describes how a number of American
cities are coping effectively with their
traffic problems, and shows that any com
munity, with intelligence and determina
tion, can do the same.
The films were made possible by the
financial support of trade groups within
the automotive industry, and produced
with the cooperation of the National Bu
reau of Casualty and Surety Underwrit
ers. Six hundred copies of the produc
tions are being distributed country-wide
through state departments of the Ameri
can Legion. The Legion is showing the
films to its members and will arrange
showings for other interested groups in
the community.
It is peculiarly fitting that the great
organization which grew out of a carnage
should now be engaged actively in a war
the primary puipose of which is to save
lives.
of the current Progi’cssivo Fniraer:—
“Adjusting fa.' n produe'.ion to con
sumer demands r.': a fair price is :i ‘nni't’
condition to the prciperity of agi'icul-
ture. So is a cro. -ing system that will
give two or more important sources of
farm income instead of depending on one
cash crop. More efficient marketing—
cooperatively; more and better labor-sav
ing equipment; better financing with low
er interest rates than have resulted from
‘time prices’; greater cooper-tion in pro
duction to insure a more uniform and
higher quality of farm products—all
these ace also essential to farm prosper
ity. no one of these needed im
provements, nor all of them combined,
will solve the South’s agricultural prob
lem.
“No matter how good the preparation
and cultivation of the soil, no matter how
efficient the power and equipment used,
no matter how pure and high in quality
the seed planted, a maximum or profitable
crop is not made from a poor soil. Unless
In'your~de1jh“ — * " '
The Ohio river flood washed the war
in Spain off the front pages.
The depression has produced a new
smile: As w'orthless as a second mort
gage.
Fam Manure Is
ValuaUe Asset
As a Fertilizer
Wonder if the senators and represen-
l:at!ve.s over TO will vote to retire judges
and justices over 70. If a man over 70
is not competent to pass on laws, is a
man over 70 competent to make laws?
Bruce-
BARTON
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_ _ lliavineiit, John, jFU*',
abundant pla'nFfood elemeuXs a.e’ in tiie
soil and available to the plant roots and
unless the soil also contains those other
characteiistics such as good tith, rooting
vegetable matter, and water-holding pow
er—in short unless there is a fertile soil
—the most profitable crops are not made.
‘Tt is the duty of the farmer to take
as much from the soil—as large crops—
as he can, but he must put it all back in
a less valuable or costly form. In fact,
if he is to increase his soil fertility, he
must put inco the land more than he takes
from it. He must not only replace whr.'
crops remove but also put back into the
soil what is leached out by rains or al
lowed to wash away.
“The sc-called worn-out or eroded soils
of the South are not so hopeless as t.'ney
are soinc-liir'C.s cifpe t.T appear. ^Mostly
they need nitrogen and humus. Legumes
provide belli. ‘The hair of the dog is
good for the oite’ and the same waiTu
climate that has made our soil fertility
wash away easily will help us rebuild that
fertility it we use that climate for maxi
mum legume production. By sowing all
possible cultivated land to lespedeza in
February and March and setting kudzu
in well-enriched spots around gullies and
giilled places, we can go a long way to
ward realizing Need No. 1 of Southern
agnculture—‘'Richer Lands for Every
Fann’.”
WORK MUST BE FOUND
America’s moat important task is to work out
some economic system by which we can provide
honest jobs foi all the people all the time. Ev
ery man and wman is entitled to the glorious
self-respect which comes from being able to say:
“Thank God, I have a place, I am needed.”
I say this becaiise once I left my family in
France and started back
across the ocean alone.
.Imuidpr"—T a.
t ^ coupl..
was depressed. Everything
I cared for was behind me.
Tiien one day the wire
less spoke.
“Have arranged three
important appointments
for you,” my partner sent
word. “Best wishes, please
confirm.”
itnice Barton immediately came a
feeling of relief and cheer. “I have work to go
back to,” 1 ixclaimed. “Work is waiting ^ keep
me alert, a little worried and on my toes.”
I was relating the incident to the chairman of
the board of a large corporation. "I know just
how you felt,” he said. “I’ve organized our com
pany so well that I've almost organized myself
out of a job. But even,' now and then a really
big problem comes along, and the boys have to
send for mo. A hurry call came to my home re
cently, and I had to leave for Chicago on an
hour’s notice. All the w-ay on the train my spirit
Somebody wants me, I have work
An estimated $12,000,000 worth
of plant food is contained in the
8,000,000 tons of farm manore in
North Carolina every year.
Tet muchoftihs plant food goes
to waste because the manure is
not cared for and utilized properly,
aald W. W. Woodhoose, Jr.
Basing his estimate on the value
of plant food in commercial ferti
lizer, Woodhonse said the manure
produced annually on the average
farm ip this State is worth $43.
But by valuing the manure ac
cording to the increased crop
yields it could produce, he added,
it is worth more than three times
that amount. On this basis, the
total manure production of the
State is worth a!)out $40,000,000.
Properly cared for and utilized,
enough manure would be available
to apply three tons on every acre
of com grown in the State, he
said.
The expei-iraent station has
found that in a com, wheat, and
clover rotation, an application of
three tons of manure every three
year.s produces .an increased crop
valuation valued at $4.78 for each
ton that was applied.
A large part of the nitrogen and
potash in manure is water solu
ble, Woodhouse pointed out, and it
is easily lost through leaching.
When manure is allow'ed to decom
pose in storage, large amounts of
nitrogen are given off and lost as
ammonia.
Ho suggested that to get the
best results, bams and lots should
be cleaned often, and the manure
should be spread on the fields as
soon as possible.
Sufficient bedding should be pro-
vidd in stables to absorb all liq
uids, as the liquids contain most
of the nitrogen.
Although manure is valuable,
Woodhouse added, it is not in it
self a complete fertilizer, and it
should be supplemented by other
fertilizing materials.
Secretary of Agriotltore Wallace
called on farm lea^ni to
a ihree-pront^ “ever noriiw
granary’’ plan to insure agncul
tural prosperity;
Ha said the Administration
would propose revlv^ of the rigid
crop control of the ontlaw^L^-
ricultural Adjustment Admiaistta.
tion &s a *qaat.dltdi” measure if
others failed.
’The preferred program would en
tail:
One—Continuance - of exulting
paymente to.‘.B««niion from grain
to soil eoiitersfig forage crops to
insure non^‘almndance in good-
weather years and lessen the haz
ard of droughts. I
Two—Government loans on
stored farm products when super
abundant yields pile up unwield-
ly supplies. Wallace called this!
a ‘‘plank to hold up falling prices.”
Three—Bonus benefit payments
to restrict acreage if the soil con
serving and loan policies prove
madequate.
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SOetEIY NOSIESS(n^.Mfs.N. Grif
fith :l%SiiiiBaa'1II, says;' *l’ea, noticed
Csineb digestion.’* Make it Casaeb
and enjoy a tense of ease.
CAMELS COSTUER TOBACCOS
Newlywed Robber
Gets Long Term
New York.—Michael Keller, 26, |
will have to wait a long time to
resume his married life. Arrested
less than an hour after his mar
riage, he was sentenced to 30 to
60 years in prison for a butcher
store holdup in which a man was
slugged.
C. M. Jenk'ns, of Stanfield, route
2, Cabarms coi,.'ty, reports 8,010
eggs from his floux of 600 white
leghorns for the past month. He
says this is a profit of $13 .72 over
eed costs.
HE WAS HONEST
Lenoir Boy Wins a
LYearScholarship
American Legion For Safety
Tihe Americanisra Commission of the
American Lejrion, long active in the
cause of traffic safety, has released two
talking-slide-fihns dealing with that v’tal
subject. Entitled “Inertia” and “The 0+h-
er Fellow,” they are an important con
tribution to promoting wider under.stand-
ing of the cause and cure of the traffic
gecident problem.
“Inertia” is an interesting and unusual
presentation of why it is necessary to
exercise care at the wheel of a motor
car. It describes the physical laws of
motion and how they affect automobile
driving. It emphasizes that \ve are so
accustoiried to the power plant we call the
jiutomobile that we consistently tend to
undervalue the force it harbors.
The second film, “The Other Fellow,”
is a dramatic treatment of community
re^nsibility for traffic accidents. Not
the other fellow, abne, but all of us are
responsible for the mounting toll of death
and injury because of failure to discharge
was
‘l.I iK'.''
The book ('i' Genesis presents work as a curse
iat'iii'te'l on luiman’ty for its sins. We know in
I'lr.L's of unemployment how faulty that
LMncc'i'tion is. To wake up in the morning and
won'ier: “Where .shali I go today? What shall
I do?” That is the curse.
WORDS AND THEIR INFLUENCE
IVordi. arc mysteriou.s and awe-inspiring. We
shoot them into the air, either by tongue or pen,
and mast of them perish. But now and then some
stray sentence drops into a mind that remem
bers it, and is influenced by it for many years.
Manv books, many sermons, many speeches have
nm in and out of my brain leaving little trace.
Yet here are three quite casual remarks that I re
member:
1. Said the late Talcott Williams, in a talk
which I had with him immediately after my grad
uation from college:
“Never forget the old saying of the Jesuits,
'.V great deal of good can de done in the world
if one is not to careful who gets the credit’.”
2. Said a prominent business man when I was
blue and discouraged because the first concern
for which I worked had gone busted:
“You are very fortunate to have had a severe
disappointment while you are still young. The
men to be pitied are those whose disappointments
come in middle life, when it is too late for them
to stall over again. A disappointment in youth
is merely part of the hardening process.”
3. Said my friend Robert Updergraff:
“Never grumble about your problems. They
are responsible for the greater part of your in
come.”
Of the three bits of wisdom this last has done
me the most good. ‘Whenever I think I am hav
ing a tough time I remember that jobs with no
worries carry small pay. It’s because I have
larger troubles that I draw a larger income.
None of these three friends probably gave his
remark a second thought But I have, never for
gotten them. And I now pass them along.
Ninety-nine out of every hundred readers will
pay no attention. But some day, fifteen years
from now, somebody may say: “I read some
thing of yours a long time ago, and it gave me
a fresh idea." ’That’s the marvelous thing about
working with words.
Given recognition as the best all
round 4-H club member in North
Carolina, Marvin Foyles, of Le
noir county, has been awarded a
luuL-tj
College.
Foyle.s was selected on a basis
of his record in club projects, his
leadership activities, and his rec
ord as a high school student, said
L. K. Ilarrill, 4-H club leader at
State College.
The scholarsliip was awarded by
the Chilean Nitrate of Soda cdu
cational bureau to the North Car
olina 4-h club member making
the best record over a period of
three years or more.
Joining a 4-H club at the age of
12, Foyles has been an active mem
ber for eight years. In that time
he has completed six corn projects,
three tobacco projects, and one
forestry project.
His average corn yield for the
six years wtis 44.,i bushels per
acre. Last year he made a profit
of $322.41 from his tobacco proj
ect.
Foyles 1ms represented liis club
county camps and 4-H short
courses at State College. Three
cars he tvas a member of the I.e-
noir county seed-judging team that |
won third, second, .and then first |
place at the annual seed-judging
contests at State Fair.
He has been vice-president and
president of the Wheat Swamp
4-H club, and has held official po
sitions with the Grange in his
community.
A one-year scholarship to State
College was awarded Foyles in
1935 for his record in growing
corn, and in 1936 he was awarded
the State leader’s medal for the
best individual record submitted
at the 4-H short course.
Harrill also steted that in addi
tion to Foyle’s four-year college
scholarship .the Chilean Nitrate of
Soda educational bureau has award
ed scliolarships to the 4-H short
course next summer to the club
members who had the best recoids
in their respective counties last
j-ear.
NOTICE OF SALE
By virtue of the powers con
tained in a certain Deed of Trust
dated August 15, 1936, made by
Leonard Martin to the under
signed, Trustee, to secure a sum
of money, now past due and un
paid, 1 will ,on the 8th day of
March, 1937, at 12 o’clock noon,
expose for sale to the highest bid
der, for cash, the following de
scribed property:
Locate in the Town of North
Wilkesboro, North Carolina, and
being described as Lot No. 8, in
Block 110. For further descrip
tion see Book 173, page 262 in the
office of the Register of Deeds of
Wilkes county. ♦
Thla February 6,1937.
Are you honest with yourself, and your family?
If you are, you have INSURANCE on your life, your
property and your car, for them.
If not, come in.
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North Wilkesboro
Insurance Agency
r J. B. WILUAMS
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Places Blame For
Drunken Driving
Blame for much of the drunken
driving since repeal was laid at
the door of the state for permitting
the sale of liquor and gasoline at
the same location, declared speak
ers at the twenty-fourth annual
convention of the Threshermen and
Farmers’ Protective Association in
sess on in Pc:'n"y'.vaT:!3 recently.
“Par too many judges impose
sentences for the effect of today’s
newspapers, and then parole ^ the
offender for tomorrow’s political
effect,” declared H. L. R. Anderson,
past president of the Threshermen
in a smashing indictment of
drunken driving menace.
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