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nader Act of March 4, 1879.
MONDAY, NOV. 22, 1943
Home Clubs Serve
While much has been deservedly writ
ten about the splendid work of the 4-H
club boys and girls in Wilkes county, the
Hqme Demonstration clubs carry progres
sive methods and practices into rqral
homes. When the housewife- decides she
wants some improvement in the home and
farm she usually gets it, and rightly so.
And the clubs not only serve as a place
of origin for home improvement ideas, but
a live Home Demonstration club is decided
ly an asset to any community from a civic
standpoint.
When a group of rural housewives gath
er they usually do something more con
structive than playing bridge or swapping
gossip. We learn that one club in Wilkes
county gave $153 to the church, which is a
sizable sum for a rural church from one
group. Another club raised a total of $465,
which was spent on destitute families in
the community, for soldier kits, for Red
Cross contribution, for an addition to the
church building and a substantial sum
went to the school lunchroom. That is real
community service.
Now let as consider what another club
in Wilkes did. The members bought $7,-
700 in War Bonds, the club gave the church
over $150, the members turned in almost
a ton of scrap, they give $136 to the Red
Cross and made 25 hospital gowns. That
same club in the Food For Freedom cam
paign canned a total of 8,950 quarts of
fruits and vegetables.
If there is any “pointing with pride” to
be done, a great amount should be direct
ed to the Home Demonstration clubs of
Wilkes county. Membership in the clubs
represents the best in conscientious citizen
ship among the rural women of the coun
ty, and where could you find a group with
a greater influence on the moral and spiri
tual well being of the county?
Not only have the women of the Home
Demonstration clubs guided their homes
along lines of progress in spite of the war,
but they have labored long and faithfully
to produce food for the nation’s war ef
fort. Many of those women have brave
and courageous sons who face the guns of
the enemy. Thi^ means that at home on
the farms, mothers and sisters of service
men during the past year have not only
worked in the kitchen but they^ave work
ed in the fields in production of crops.
Their program has called for rising early
and retiring late, spending many houra of
the day in the gardens and fields.
The average woman who works an hour
or two in some type of war work per week
and feels like she has whipped tlie Japs
and Germans should swap places for a day
with the conscientious farm housewife and
learn what a real day’s service to her
home, her community and her nation is
made up of.
And we would not close this comment
without .commending to the best of our
ability the leadership afforded the Home
Demonstration clubs by the extension
service. Mrs. Annie H. Greene, home
demonstration agent, has worked faith
fully and well and the quality of her
leadership and influence is reflected in the
record of accomplishments of the Home
Demonstration clubs of Wilkes county.
We Borrow An Editorial
Since this is November and Thanksgiv
ing will be celebrated thig month provided
some of the l»right young men in Washmfi^
ton do not decide to change this old cus^
tom, w© mulling over the idea of
writing a Thanks|fiving edito^.
was nothing particularly ongi^l m
giving ©atorhito for
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why the apace’^ shquld hot haw Iwan
to better advanta^ge.>\;T / ^ 1
Fortunately before we ^ad Indulged the
traditional editorial wWm of thoniandfl of
adults whose writings fill space on editorial
pages of the nation, we found one written
by Sloan Hill, editor of North Wflk^bwo s
high school paper, ‘The lion’s Roj^.
fills tile bill this year. It was not written
as a llianksgiving editorial. It appeared in
the October 29 issue. It is called “No
Fun!” ^ Sloan was thinking of-spinething
entirely ditferenttto&ThanMhiVffit^h®® , , ^.
the editorial w&a believe nKhra wxifinEiB»—
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Here it is:
We complain.
‘^is town is so dead; no
place to have good clean fun; dfeiice or
anything that av^erage young AipericaM
enjoy”. We say we are being robbed of
our greatesi, pleasures as young people.
“High school is supposed to be the hap
piest and gayest time in a person’s life, but
we are being robbed of these times because
we are furnished no recreations whatso
ever.”
To a certain extent all this is true ; we
are lacking a lot of things that young peo
ple usually enjoy; gasoline rationed, no
place to go to dance, can't travel much.
War deprives us of lots of pleasures that
we may enjoy in peace times.
But if you ever stopped to think you
wouldn’t complain—no, you would thank
your lucky stars that you have any place
to do nothing in.
Suppose you were in Europe or in Rus
sia. What kind of recreation do you think
people there have? They sit at home too,
doing nothing, only they keep wondering
whether the next bomb will blow them to
bits, or v,’here their next meal will come
from, if there is a next one. And our boys
on the fighting fronts, they have forgotten
even what recreation means.
Well, what are we supposed to do?
Crowd into a ditch and stay there until the
war is, over? No, you don’t have to do
that. Just quit griping and take what’s,
coming to you and make the best of it until
peace is here again; then you can complain
and gripe till you heart is content. Until
then, have what fun you can, but help win
the war and bring this good-natured,
American “young folks jobs” back again,
soon.—We The People Magazine.
Bach month iio Progmealve
Farmer gives caeh prieee for
what they term the heat .Jokes.
Here'are the first and second
prise winners this month:
HALF AND HAHP
It Was a cold night end the
soldier standing on guard tried
vainly to keep warm.^ Suddenly
someone approached.
"Halt! -Who goes there?” ask
ed the sentry.
"Friend—^wlth a bottle!” was
the' answer.
Pass, friend! Halt, bottle!’’
promptly commanded the sentry.
THE POOR CHRISTIAN
Fiarmer talking to the stranger
—Why are your pants worn
away at the knees?
Stranger—From praying.
Farmer—Well, why Is your
shirt worn out in the back?
Stranger—From backsliding.
OPINIONS MFFEB—• ^
Personally, we think the fol
lowing yarn entered in the farm
paper’s contest and which didn’t
win a prize was the best of the
lot:
ElASY, PLEASE
A small boy was going to school
and as he hurried, he prayed.
“Dear God, don’t let me be late—
please, God don’t let me be late '.
Then he happened to stumble and
said, ‘‘You don’t have lo shove!"
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mi their wel^-hnd
they a^ military antlKattte
EUpenfifaiL tliMn vrera very eo^
Service at State CoBege. “There
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TiiV prisoners were shattemcl ai
three canaptf, at Tarboro, Windsor
and Seotlaiid Nedt, Rq^orts from
the fa^ agent, in th« cooniiM
where tt|e ItaH^ worked dm#
that other cr«^ were saved alatf
because the local help was re
leased to work those fidds,
Prisoners .. at the^ Tarboro camn
worked in &^ombe, Nash aiu
Pitt omntiis. ..^prorimately 43^
worked every day for 18 days for
141 different farmers. They cov
ered 2,523 acres and stacked 100,-
930 piles of peanuts.
At the Windsor camp, 423 pris
oners worked 21 days in Bertie,
Martin, Hertford and Chowan
counties. They were employed by
263 farmers on 34.48 acres and
completed 125,917 stacks.
One hundred and sixteen Hali
fax, Northampton and Martin
county farmers used the 461 pris
oners ajt the Scotland Neck camp
for 18 days. This group covered
3,026 acres of peanuts and 121,-
071 stacks.
With the use of this labor whidh
the famers called the bdst im
ported labor they could have had,
the peanut crop was harvested. Al
though the Italians knew nothing
about stacking peanutd when they
arrived, the county agents report
that they soon caught on under
the supervision of the farmers for
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|ti taB||em of
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Peat bogs have been discovered! whom they worked.
Brlzd ! buy more war bonds
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' m&t felin be thade. Oi^ Armies must be
supplied!
The 0. P. A. Office has made ceilt^g^
tee of
I.S0 FOR 160 CIBIC FEET
of Chesthut wood, deliv^ed to the mill
by truck, and that price is being paid by
Wilkes Extract Works
North WHke$boro,R.C.
who will take Chestnut wood in any quantity every day ex
cept Sunday.
'Tan Bark will have very good market this coming year.
Information given by;
W.F. DECKER, ASHEVILLE, N.C.
Care Langren Hotel
Daydreams For Uncle Sam
Sometimes when we are sawing- away at
our daily jobs we forget why we are saw
ing and just drift into idle day dreams.
But there are millions of home front sol
diers today whose. dreams are not idle.
They are the cutters of pulpwood that re
cently developed “miracle” products which
can now be converted into powder for bul
lets, hospital wadding, vests for aviators,
containers for blood plasma, cargo para
chutes, shipping containers for food, boxes
for individual first-aid kits and a hundred
other items essential in the daily lives of
our fighting men.
With each cut of the saw or axe those
v’ood cutters’ thoughts take on meaning,
one stroke of the axe, the powder for part
of one Gerand rifle bullet; one tree, 7500
bullets; one cord, 90,000 bullets. One cut
of the saw, part of a box for blood plasma;
one tree, 350 boxes; one cord 4200 boxes.
And so on all day, every day.
Since the bulk of pulpwood products
pow go directly into the war effort, the na
tion today faces a serious shortage unless
more farihera and woodcutters enlist in the
present campaign to:
“Cut a Cord of Pulpwood for Every Lo
cal Boy in Service”. (
It’s a vital, profitable job, of real service
to the nation. A job in which daydreams
come true.
WHAZZAT?
Sunshine Magazine
Our forefathers did without sugar until
the thirteenth century, without coal fires
until the fourteenth century, without but
tered bread until the fifteenth, without po
tatoes until the sixteenth, without coffee
and tea and soap until the seventeenth,
without pudding until the eighteenth, with
out gas and matches and electricity until
the nineteenth, without canned goods un
til the twentieth century, and we have had
automobiles for only a few years. Now,
what was it you were complaining about?
We shall not have freedom from fear aa
long as people fear freedom. — Winston-
Salem Journal.
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We shall have reached the age of wis-
dbm when we learn how to ^Riit proj^ir-
Ijr the wi^om of the agea.-^’^n^jfeSiiy
Ion Jo^inial.
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