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(Ib WlQns and Adjoiainff Coanttw)
One Year W-00
(OeteUa irOcm and Adjoiainc eooatlM)
Rates Te Tbose In Serriee:
One Tear (MiywRere) |2.W
mt«nd «t tlM pteMBe* »t Wi^
b«n. Bietti Oudillk. M S«oiid-claM matter
uader Act of March A 1879.
MONDAY, JULY 30, 194S
Why Poultry Black Market
There has been much concern relative
to what is known as the poultry black
market, which is the selling of chickens
above the ceiling prices established by the
OPA.
There are reasons, good or bad, for
whatever situation exists. The reason could'
be that the ceiling price is wrong or that
poultry producers and dealers are greedy
for the filthy lucre which we call money,
and we don’t believe it is the latter.
The ceiling price now for broilers sold
by the farmer on the farm is 29 and three-
tenths cents per pound.
An authoritative study of poultry pro
duction costs in one North Carolina coun
ty shows that cost of broiler production to
be 27 and eight-tenths—almost 28 cents—
per pound.
It is generally understood that 1,000
chickens are about as many as one person
can produce, and it takes overtime to do
that.
The difference in the cost price and the
OPA ceiling on 1,000 three-pound chicks
is $42—for an investment of $837 over a
period of three months. That investment
entails dire risks of losses by disease, theft,
fire and other causes.
The OPA evidently expects a farmer to
^ rfrf7*"^6^7 in order to make $42 profit in
three months. Yet a laborer on war work
can make $42 in three days’ time.
If you want the answer to the question
of the why of food shortages, take a look
at the figures.
And if you want to know where we got
our poultry production cost figures, read
the following authoritative news release
from the extension service of North Caro
lina State College:
‘The average cost of producing broilers
during the summer and fall of 1944 and
the spring of 1945 was 76.2 cents for each
three-pound bird sold, but this cost has
now increased to 83.8 cents, says a prelimi
nary report by R. E. L. Greene and H. B_.
James of the Economics Department of the
Agricultural Experiment Station at State
College.
“The study was made in Chatham coun
ty and the records of farmers, feed deal-
and hatcherymen were studied. In
ers.
many cases the feed dealers Reduced rec-
cm(
ords showing the number of cllicks bought,
pounds of feed used, the number of broil
ers marketed, and the pounds of broilers
marketed.
“The principal cost items were baby
chicks, charged at 13 cemts each; feed,
averaging about $80 a ton; and labor. The
chicks represented 20.3 per cent of the
gross cost; feed, 63 per cent; and labor,
8.7 per cent. Other charges taken into
consideration were fuel, buildings, equip
ment, disinfectants and medications, litter
and power and light.
“According to the report, most farmers
used commercial starting and growing
mashes entirely in growing out the broil-
' ers. Occasionally a small amount of home
grown feed was used. The feeding of grain
■varied widely. While some farmers did
not feed any grain, others fed grain for a
• week or two before the broilers were sold.
“The report says that at the present time
cost factors have increased all along the
V line and'the present cost of a three-pound
broiler is now 83.8 cents rather than 76.2
’ -cents, and the cost per pound 27.9 cents
rather than 26.4 cente.
*0 the grave, the word
IConipiilaion la Not Freedom
In the bill now before Congress to
r Iwoaden the social security act to give ev-
l^one protection against “the slings and
**arww8 of outrageous fortune” from child-
‘compulsory’
« AuBied like
lowly skunk. Nowhere is that word^^d
!h any discussions by tN Promoters of the
bill. The public is actually made to be
lieve that everyone will have complete
freedom in choice of a doctor, apd that
doctors will have complete freedom
choice of patients.
It is claimed*.that state medicine is not
socialized medicine. This is about as logi
cal as to say tl^ bill is not ’conipulsory,
when the woid^ of the bill forces all em-
ployes drawing up to $3,600 a year to pay
four per cent of their earnings into the so
cial security fund, and all employers to
pay a like amount.
'■When government goes into business,
that is socialism, so when the Federal gov
ernment establishes a system of insurance
to which everyone must contribute, when
it regulates the provisions of medical serv
ice through Washington headquarters,
when it regulates fees that doctors are to
receive when they participate in the sys
tem, when it regulates those who are to be
consultants and when consultants are to be
consulted, that is definitely socialized
medicine. The doctors who are dissatis
fied with the system can quit and turn
their abilities to some other channel, but
the people, once they are saddled with
compulsory medical practices, are the
losers, and they will definitely have to pay
for socialized medicine even though they
prefer a private doctor.
t LIFE’S BETTER WAY
WALTER E. ISENHOUR
Hiddenite, N. C.
LOOKING UNTO JESUS
In these days of anxiety because of war,
uncertainty in buMness, scarcity of many
material things, wickedness of the masses,
unbelief, worldliness, drunkenness, tests
and trials, troubles and heartaches, 0 how
wonderful to look unto Jesus for help and
grace, comfort and peace, strength, cour
age and equilibrium! No one but Jesus
can keep us balanced right. But, halle
lujah, He can do it! I know of no resort
that is so blessed, safe and secure as hiding
away in the secret place of prayer and
there talking with our Lord over the prob
lems and difficulties that confront us. He
knows,.He underst^4®> He cares.. When
we call upon llunln sincerity and in truth
He always does something about it. It
pays to pray far more than talk. Amen,
and glory to God.
When tempted and tried, get alone with
Jesus and pray. When troubles come upon
you, and it seems that they are beyond all
endurance, get alone with Jesus and pray.
Don’t be in a hurry. Stay there, dwell,
tarry, wait. There is an answer if you will
wait, get still and settled before God.
When you don’t know what to do, do noth
ing until you have prayed earnestly and
Jesus shows you what course you should
pursue. Let Him, show you; let Him lead,
guide and direct. Pray much. All real,
true, mighty prayers are wonderfully
blessed of God. They are deeply settled
in Him. They are rooted and grounded in
the faith once delivered unto the saints,
therefore cannot be carried about with ev
ery wind or doctrine. But do not wait until
mighty tests, trials and troubles come upon
you before you pray. Pray when the sun
shines brightly; when the going with you
seems easy; when you are on the mountain
top of victory, shouting the praises of God.
Pray often; pray much; pray continually.
Keep in a spirit of prayer. “Pray without
ceasing.”
My dear wife is a great pray-er. Per
haps few women, if any, in our county pray
more than she. She lives a life of prayer.
It is true that she is a hard worker, as we
have reared a large family, but she never
gets too busy to pray. I suppose she aver
ages around three hours in prayey out of
every twenty-four. She knows the bless
edness of prayer. She dwells much with
Jesus. My burdens are her burdens. My
tests and trials are her tests and trials. My
cares, duties and responsibilities are hers.
My interests are her interests. She prays
much for our loved ones, for our dear
readers, and for mankind generally. She
prays for the sick, suffering, sad, tested,
tried pilgrims of the cross. On her prayer
list are many of the dear soldiers of the
land. When our readers write use, asking
for prayer, I place the requests before her
that she may help me pray, taking as a
promise from Jesus Matthew 19:19: “If
two of you shall agree on earth as touch
ing anything that they shall ask, it shall
be done for them of my Father which is
heaven.” We have anchored to and stood
upon this promise for years and find that
it never fails as we ask within the Fath
er’s will.
8PMMKR SIHBIERQrCe—.
^ 4*eroxU|e baa become *o
that aome btonds iiave tronbie
bolu^ bleacbbeaCs • . -."No ma
chinery used to tear roar cloth
ing. We do It aU by hand," was
the sign'seen on a lanndry track.
. . . And speaking ot signs, back
When sngar was scarce bnt there
was some sngar, a rMtanrant had
this sign: “Use less sugar and
stir like hell. We don’t mind the
noise" . . . The manpower short
age has become so acute that
scarecrows wear brassiers . . .
About* the only voice some men
get in home purchases *Is the In
voice ... A (TUCk driver in Den
ver, Uolorado, was arrested lor
drunken driving. Not much news
In that, but the load on his truck
was seven tons of dynamite . . .
The Sunday school student said
the Ulble story he liked best was
the one about the multitude that
loafs and hshes . . . Light from
the sun travels to us at the rate
of 186,UUO miles per second. But
why shouldn’t it? It is down
hill all the way . . . Have you
heard about the man who climbed
stepladder to the roof when it
was announced the drinks were on
the house? . . . And some poetry;
whsTd out wnu
'HlUof," nmoaitrated the-g^
'iitter* "why don't yon cM 7mf»
eiaf (k JOM"
Whyi";,««mitoa tho^ehibf.^^
you'donfir ea^ a tot'of
tBiQiid]^' Jldybe Hkor 0 &
l»«k.*; ..
.V “ Wjyr
T: "ah, If yos workbd: tard and
■ y?®r moBdy, you*ji godiff
hate a bapk foepuBt. Wdnldn’t;
you like thatr* ;
" "Wiy?" agalB asked the Alef.
"hV>r gbmi aakear* shouted Aim
eaaaperat^ go-getter, "with a big
banlt aeeohnt ypti ebutd retire, and
thMi yon wonidn'i havs tb work
any moror-"- .,8;
••Not working now," pointed
ont the Indian.
KNOWUBDG|S---
"Don't yon khow what my raised
hand m«anBT'%j
The traffic cop beseetmed her;
"ton bet i do," the maid replied;
"You see, sir, I’m a teacher.”
He married a WAVE
But he waved at a WAC
So instead of a wave from the
WAG
He got back a whack
rTom the WAVE he had wed.
From a private in Italy we
learned how they control cooties
over there. The soldiers bathe in
gravel and rub down with alco
hol. 'I'be cooties get drunk and
kill each other throwing rocks.
ALL FOR NOTHING—
An eastern go-getter spied
lazy Indian chief lolling indolent
ly at the door of his tepee some-
oai of lh« whbst eroi^ iasnr-
nnos doitmwtd iovms tanuM
No of Mis Arerngs
|hd iolhsr dOlMrwt, np
.to dOHMir' Both doittriets are
-on lS4d-48 crops:
Camp Sitttpn Leased
On
IP Bimpn
tTurfe-Ye
enr Basis
MONDAY, JULY 30,
coitlflp^g iegwi^r th'i war
NPItGflrOPliMMJI.OP lAND
Ew.iMm of dig
f«r for ^
of Tvir, «t ti Noon
at tbo Common mxK to
Vow iolldw>
jB w. s.' Jbimsmi’s
p sootli 87M
is S poln to nafr eat
smtik.fi £^eaat U pte
sonttiwsii'core
nor of Lot No. 2, a poplar, and
I mu of said
running north With the!
poln to ttulr conMn •
toeuM 800^ 87 dag.
46. aersa^
‘more ortsas.
lUa SOtfa day of Jmu. 1946.
F. J. McDUFFEE,
7-921H Commhuioner
Kaielgh—The State Hospitals
Board ot Control Friday leased
the Camp Sntton Hospital from
the army on a three-year basts.
The lease will become effective
August 1, extending to July 31,
1848.
'fhe lease, now being studied
by the state attorney general’s
ofilce and army representatives,
calls for a yearly rental of |10,-
481, Including the hospital’s cold
storage and coal yard faciUtfbs.
and immediately started machin
ery in motion to transfer 500 cus
todial and mentally incapacitated
patients there from the Morgan-
ton and Kaielgh hospital units.
T-
BUT MORE WAR BONDS
ADMINIS’rRATRIX’S NO*nCE
North Carolina, Wilkes County.
Having qualified as administra
trix of &e estate of W. L. Combs,
deceased, late of Wilkes county.
North Carolina, this is to notify ^
persons having claims against the
estate of said deceased to exhibit
them to the undersigned at North
Wiikesboro, North Carolina, on or
before the 28th day of .Tune, 1946,
or this notice will be pleaded in
Imr of their recovery. All persons
indebted to said estate will please
make immediate payment.
’This 28tli day of June, 1946.
MRS. W. L. COMBS,
Administratrix of the estate of W.
L. Combs, dec’d. 7-30-M
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at the same time.
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