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MONDAY, MARCH 22, 1987
Farm Ownership
The report by the Resettleraent admin
istration and tlie department of agricul
ture recently released showed tiiat 77 per
cent of the farms in Wilkes county are
operated by ownera, which shows up well
in comparison with the state average
and there are a very few counties with
a larger percentage of home owners a?
mong the rural people.
It is true that many of the places of
abode are not so valuable or attractive
but there is much consolation in the fact
that the occupants can call them their
homes.
Clarence Poe, editor of the Piugressive
Farmer, makes the following comment on
home ownership.
“We seem really to have come to a new
era in Southern upbuilding—the third
since Appomattox, as will be seen from
this analysis:—
“1. For 35 years from 1865 to 1900, or
about one generation, the South was
fighting for just two things—to recover
the material losses of the war and to es
tablish the supremacy of the white race.
“2. Then for 35 years from 1900 to
1935, or a second generation, leaders of
Southern progress concentrated on two
more things—universal education and
universally improved highways.
“3. Now in the new 35-year period
'(1935-1970) on which we have just en
tered it looks as if we may have two
other gcals of Southeni economic pro
gress—universal home ownership (so far
as it is practicable to achieve it) and the
conservation of natural resources, es
pecially soils and forests. And it is sig
nificant that both these programs—both
that for soil conservation and that for
home ownership—are getting ‘full steam
ahead’ at practically the same time: 1936
saw a new beginning of a national pro
gram for soil conservation and 1937 will
see the beginning of an effective nation
al program for home ownership.”
One Ounce of Radium
The Governor General and the Prime
Minister of Canada have just ceremon-
ialized a “notable increase” in the produc
tion of radium in Canada during the past
three years. Total production: one ounce.
Market value: $1,400,000.
With this addition, the world’s supply
of radium is now about twenty-five ounc
es, not enough to make up a two-inch
cube. It is scattered widely widely, but
the whereabouts, the ownership and the
pedigree of almost very particle are on
record. There is a possible secret store
in the hands of the Belgians, who held
a world monopoly until 1929, when Gil
bert LaBine discovered the Eldorado
aiine on Great Bear Lake.
Radium is a pure element in a violent
state of disintegration. Its atoms are con
stantly exploding with frightful force,
but their number is so great that scient
ists compute it will take 19,000 years be
fore every atom of any given particle of
radium has exploded.
A millionth of an ounce of radium in
jected into a human body is enough to
cause death by the disintegiation of the
tissues. Yet it is this ability to destroy
living tissues which makes radium valu
able in fighting cancer. If radium can be
focussed upon malignant growths, the
cancer is demolished.
i^Jbout one out of |en persons who reach
flie age of thirty-five will die of cancer.
Because there is so little radium, very
few cancer victims will be able to receive
radium treatment. Every new radium
unit, therefore, pnmiises relief for thou
sands. Hence the extraordinary import-
ai^ of the discovery of radium in Can
ada, and the official celebration of the
tnfniwg and refining of the first ounce.
Tin I III I
TheTinn Signup
During the past several shears fanners
hava be^ educated to the need of soil
improvement and soil, conservatkm but
many were unable to cany out the proper
practices because of lack of finances.
The soil corjservation act which recc
ed the triple A partially removes this ob
stacle in the way of agricultural progress
by paying farmers for growing soil-i^
proving and soil conserving crops in lieu
of cash crops. It also pays cash for ter
racing and other approved practices.
Without attempting to argue the com
plicated subject of government crop con
trol, we would suggest that participation
in the soil program is the proper course, i
regardless of how a man’s mind may run
toward the principle of “rugged individu
alism.”
There is nothing compulsory about the
plan and a fanner promises nothing by
signing a work sheet, which merely sets
out the plan of farming Ihe has been vdo-
ing and establishes a base for calculations
as to what he may do to earn payment.
After signing the work sheet he may go
ahead and manage his farm as he sees
fit. However, it must be understood that
he must comply with certain provisions
in order to receive a cash benefit pay
ment. .
lEarly action is necessary in order that
a fanner may plan well ahead* as to what
practices he will carry out. In fact the
time is here for seeding some of the le
gumes for which payment is made. Work
sheets should be signed during the re
mainder of this month.
BRUCt
BARTON
Brace Barton
THERE ARE NO LITTLE THINGS
“One day I summoned up courage to ask
the head of our firm how h® ever happened to
make me an offer to join his firm on so short
an acquaintanceship,” a very successful lawyer
told me.
His answer was surprising. He said that for
years he had been able to secure more busi
ness than he could prop
erly handle. As a busi
ness getter' he was a
star; as an organizer of
an efficient force he was
a failure. He had hired
brilliant young chaps out
of law school, but some
how they never develop
ed as he hoped. Being
brilliant, they expected
to get results easily, and
if they were whipped a
couple of times in court it broke their spirit.
“One night he went home and sat down be
fore the fire to analyze his situation. He de
cided to look for an entirely different type of
man; he listed the qualifications:
“1. The man must not be too smart. He
must have the habit of working hard for his
results.
“2. Ho must have been in college athletics,
trained to fight for victory, and to keep up
hi.s chin in defeat.
“Having made this list, the lawyer asked his
friends to recommend men who met the quali
fications. One of them named me.
"So you see," my friend concluded, "it was
that onfe little thing, to which I never attached
the slightest Importance, that made my whole
career.”
When you hear stories like this, and 1 have
heard many of them, ft makes you think that
there are no little things. NTo operation is so
Insignificant that man can refuse to give It
less than his best.
DESERVE AND ELIMINATE
A certain manufacturer, whose products al
ready covered the field, announced his inten
tion of still another item to the line. His bank
er was skeptical. "What excuse is there for
It?” he demanded. “Does It meet any real
need? Has It any special qualities that make
it deserve to succeed?”
The manufacturer replied rather testily that
he could not see what deserving had to do
with it. There was an opportunity to get more
business from a competitor, and he proposed
to do so.
The banker protested. "That seems a poor
foundation on which to build,” he said. He
was right. After an expensive and unsuccess
ful campaign the new product was abandoned.
Another company, whose volume had grown
rapidly during the months of prosperity,
came into dull times and began to examine its
expenses. It discovered that nearly half ita
overhead could be cut without reducing prof
its. While things were rolling tt bad'‘‘eBUiret7
neglected elimination. » .
The words apply with equal force to Indi
vidual lives. How many useless habits we
loaded in good times. Apparently hard times
are necessary' once in a while to compel us to
eliminate.
As for the word deserve, who has not ex
perienced the increased sense of power which
comes when one knows in his heart that his
plana and pnrpoaea are wholly right? Under
the spell of each conviction 'w® astonish our
selves by an unexpected capacity.
FIRESIDEil
PHILOSOPHY
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ly «. K. MCKSOH
Big headlines are’ given if a
crime is committed; if a score of
people are laved, it may. be men
tioned on “stock market” page.
Many who would shudder at
the thought of suicide will jump
In their cars and, apparently, not
only commit suicide, but prob
ably kill their whole family.
Though a man be slow to. start
work, if ihe Is
quick to stop,
he can be with
himself more.
Right-of-way
on the highway
of life is al
ways given to
the man who
knows where
he is going.
No wise man
will leave a
good road and*follow a by-path.
A fool can make a dollar now
and then by chance.
To the eyes of the world, it
takes great occasions to help un-
vail either cowards or heroes.
If, as the common adage says,
“The deeper the well the cooler
the water, and the higher one
soars the brighter the sun,” com
mon sense would say: “Dig deep,
and fly high.”
If heaven is what we say it is,
why should we try to miss it?
Strong minds may reason and
arrive at great conclusions, but
no one can reason himself into
immortality.
Every civic unit should be gov
erned by laws peculiarly befitting
this unit.
The reason that you and I are
not occupying higher positions is
the fact that we cannot get pay
for what the other fellow knows.
There’s just one consolation
tor a person who marries an
“eccentric”, and that is to be too
ignorant to notice it.
If now Is taken care of, the
‘‘by and by" will take care of
itself.
There are some exceptions, but
usually, the fellows who are
“stand up” and “stay in.”
One may * mastw of today,
but a subject of tomorrow. ^
A sorry exens* can nsitbsr (mt
cashed in at. a bank nor used in
ebaraeter building. .
A lie fluetnates—upward, hnt
the truth remains stable.
" If the tall Is' hewrler. why
shouldn't It wag Ihe dog?
No habit is probably more dan
gerous than the one that “creepa”
on a fellow.
DAlffmG OFF DEBASE
LOWERS COTTON YIELD
Damping ofl;:diaea8« Is con
sidered one of the major causes
of poor stands and low cotton
yields in North Carolina.
Failure to get a good stand
rohs^familsn' in .the Stato of some
ISO,000,000 pounds of seed.cot
ton every year, said Dr. Luther
Shaw, extension plant patholo
gist at State' College.
The fnngl and bacteria causing
the disease are present in nearly
all soils, and are often carried
on the seed, h® continued.
The germs may destroy the
germinating power of the seed,
or they may attack the young
seedlings and either stunt their
growth or kill them outright.
increased value
of tb* cotton lint and seed pro
duced averaged flS.Ot per acre.
Dr. Shaw recommends three
oviweg of dust tor each bnihel of
seeiL .Placp (be seed and dust in
a. barrel mixer or a mizim^ ma
chine andr agitate them vtpleutly
tor about five minutes, he said.
A ^barrel miger can be nude
easily at hetael bd oenttnued. Full
directions for making ^ a’^'^mizer
and treating seed have been pub-,
lished in the January. plant di
sease notes prepared by Dr, Shaw.
Free copies may he obtained by
writing Dr. Luther Shaw at State
College, Ralegh.
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MAN LOSES BOTH LEGS
IN FALL UNDER TRAIN
Castonla, March 15.—C. V.
Price, 40, of Hickory, freight con
ductor for the Carolina and
Northwestern railway, suffered
the loss of both legs below the
knee when he slipped and fell
beneath a C. and N. W. train on
south Gastonia side track about
2:30 o’clock this afternoon.
OPENING SERVICE
FRIENDS MISSION
Rev.’ Gurney Laws, pastor, has
announced reopening of services
Treating the seed with two per i of Friends Mission Sunday after-
cent Ceresan (two per cent ethyl
mercury chloride dust) will give
the best control now known. Dr.
Shaw went on.
Demonstrations on 67 farms
last season showed that the aver
age yield from untreated seed
was 1,295 pounds of seed cotton
to the acre, while treated seed
produced 1,548 pounds.
The treatment cost 27 cents
StiQ Conginng?
No matter how many medicines
you have tried for your cough, chest
cold or bronchial irritation, you can
get relief now witli Crcomulsion.
Serious trouble may be brewii^ and
you cannot aSord to take a chance
with anything less than Creomul-
sion, vrtdch goes right to the seat
of trouble to aid nature to
soothe a^ hesd the inflamed mem
branes as the genn-ladcn phlegm
is loosened and expelled. >
Even if other remedies nave
failed, don’t be discouraged, your
druggist is authorized to guarantee
Cteomi^on and to *?fund yoiar
money if you are not satisfltd with
results from the very fli-st bottle.
Get Creomulslon right new. (Adv.)
noon, two o’clock, in the Girl
Scout bouse on the corner of D
and 5th streets. Prayer services
will be held on Thursday sights.
The public has a cordial invita
tion to attend.
Amd8mR*t:wd ^
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AHSHERS
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uouzirtun^t frbm your food,
and restful sleep?
A potHTly nourished body
Just can’t hold up. And as lor
that run-down feeling, that
nervous fatigue, — don’t neg
lect Itl
Cardul, for lack of ajqjedte,
poor digestion and nervous
fatl^e, has been recom
mended by mottmrs to daugh
ters —■^men to women—for
over fifty years.
*1^ it! Thousands of women
testify Cerdul helped them. Of
course, U it does net benefit TOU,
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