Farm With
The City Cousin
It’s been a long time since I
missed a State Fair and believe
it or not, my biggest interest
there is the exhibits that por
tray the steps North Carolina
tanners are taking *to assure for
themselves the benefits of their
labors.
Nine exhibits showed what
the farmers and their families
had accomplished during the past
year and coincided with exhibits
built by specialists of the State
CSiiege Agricultural Extensiori
Service in telling the same story
Notice
CHESTNUT WOOD
At higher prices. Bring me
all you can anytime.
5 it. long and sound.
I will not accept rotten
wood.
B. F. Cook
West Jefferson, N. C.
to other farmer*.
I was not the only City Cousin
amazed to find that Tar Heel
farmers manage to get so much
done on their acres. I’m sure
many a city person, passing
through the exhibit halls, gained
a new insight into not only the
problems of successful farming
and homemaking, but also the
wide spread of accomplishments
these rural folk are able to pro
duce. *
In this state where agricultur
al pursuits constitute the major
industry of a people, such indi
vidual farm exhibits are mighty
worthwhile, and serve as the
most convincing proof that tire
old i Extension keystone of "di
versified farming” pays off in
dividends.
You could see it .in the .blue
ribbon-winning display of Mr.
and Mrs. James A. Patterson who
have made farming and home
making lifetime occupations on
their place near China Grove in
Rowan county. In a space about
twenty by twelve feet you got
the picture of a year’s fascinat
ing work and preparation.
Just enough livestock to fur
nish food—beef, pork, poultry.
A couple of,head of workstock
to help with the farming, and
plenty 'of home-grown feeds to
supply the requirements of the
cattle, hogs, chickens and mules.
Canned and frozen foods, grown
for their own use, were a pro
minent part of the Pattersons
exhibit, and drew many a com
ment from Fair visitors.
Right down to the small dis
play trays that were made of
white pine cut from the Pat
terson forest, you could tell at
Dale Weaver and his Alleghany
Playboys
Will be at
Rich Hill School
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1
7:30 P. M.
Admission: 35c Adults, 15c Qhildren
Announcement
STARTING SAT., NOV. 1st. WE WILL
HAVE TWO SAT. MATINEES
COME ANYTIME BETWEEN
1 AND 2 45 AND SEE? A
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Karo Syrup.. 5 lb. pail. .59c
Comet Rice, “Longrain”
2 lb. box -—-- 39c
Del Monte Pineapple
No. 2 can- 29c
Blue Bunny Fruit Cocktail
lb. can- 29c
Del Monte Fruits For Salad
PACKED IN HEAVY SYRUP
29 oz. jar - --48c
While President Truman’s Citi
zens Food committee went ahead
full tilt to achieve a goal of sav
ing 100 million bushels of grain
through an “eat less, waste less”
program of voluntary rationing
by the American people there was
considerable pessimism over suc
cess of the plan.
Such men as Leon Henderson,
former war production chief;
Wilson Wyatt, former housing ex
peditor, and Franklin D. Roose
velt, Jr., all top officials of the
Americans for Democratic Action
organization, while declaring the
President had eloquently des
cribed the crisis in Europe and
the need for food, said the pro
posals of voluntary action “fall
tragically short of the demands
of a world crisis.”
The organization is urging an
immediate session of congress
apd declares, “the American
people, if they are informed of
the full facts, will accept what
ever controls are needed to pre
serve domestic stability and arm
the democratic peoples of Europe
with food and fuel in their bat
tle for survival.”
Other observers term the plan
merely a postponement of-the re
institution of rationing and con
trols and say that the need in Eu
rope calls for drastic and imme
diate relief in food and money if
collapse of democratic govern
ment is to be prevented in France
and Italy, which would mean that
Russia’s Communism would take
over those nations:
Economists here declare that
the federal government should
immediately be given the power
to crack down on speculators and
profiteers in foods and other com
modities, particularly in grains
on the grain exchanges in the
country, and that no one should
be permitted to extract hugh pro
fits, througij increased prices, out
of the needs of starving people
a glance that here was farming
at its finest. Mrs. Patterson's
handiwork in sewing demonstra
ted her use of leisure time, and
products of the orchard, garden
and field made the picture near
ly complete.
You could even tell what the
family read as Mother and Dad
and the children rested after e
rigorous day. Prominently dis
played were local and city news
papers, farm magazines, and the
Bible.
In announcing the Individual
Farm Display competition, the
Fair Premium Book says: “Each
exhibit should prove educational
so that practical lessons may be
drawn from it by farmers and
others with reference to farm
and home management as well
as production and marketing
practices.”
From this point of view, you
may be sure I learned a lot I
didn’t know before about living
at home on the farm!
or the sacrifice of American
families to proved those needs.
Farmers’ income is staying well
ahead of outgo, according to the
September release of the bureau
of agricultural economics. The
report shows that the sharp in
creases in prices for meat ani
mals, dairy and poultry products
and grains lifted the index of
prices received by farmers to a
new high of 288 per cent of the
1909-1841 average. The increase
was 4 per cent over August, the
sharpest monthly rise since last
March. . ww.mnim
The index on September was
18 per cent above a year ago and
22 per cent higher than the post
World War I high of 235 in May
1920.
At the same time prices paid
by farmers, including interest and
taxes, rose about 1 per cent and
established a new all-time high
of 237, which was 18 per cent
above a year ago and 17 per cent
above the peak of 202 reached in
1920 after World War I. So the
farmer, according to these fig
ures. has a profit of 49 per cent
of the 1909-14 average.
Senator Taft, observers here
point out, is wrong on one pre
mise which he stressed on his
western tour. He has charged the
administration of President Tru
man with responsibility for high
prices. As a matter of fact, it was
a majority of Republicans aided
by a minority of Democrats who
wrote the .price control laws of
the 79th congress,and did away
with OPA controls.
So Senator Taft could very well
charge the Democratic party with
responsibility, but certainly not
the President, who did everything
possible to prevent liquidation of
OPA. For it was Democrats,
southern Democrats, who helped
the GOP kill off OPA.
Senator Taft might use the
same argument on the Taft-Hart
ley labor law and blame Presi
dent Truman for its failure by
faulty administration if it does
not work out—and take credit for
it if it does work out. But it was
those same southern Democratic
senators who provided the necess
ary votes to pass the labor bill
of the Persident’s veto when the
Republicans didn’t have suffi
cient votes themselves.
Predictions here are that the
next session of congress will have
more difficulty slashing the fed
eral budget for the 1949 fiscal
year than it had in the first ses
sion. For instance, almost 80 per
cent of the present federal bud
get of 37 billion dollars' i? fixed
expenditures and accounts for all
but about 7.6 billions of dollars
which goes for general govern
ment and other expenditures. It is
in this 7-6 billion, or 20 per cent,
that cuts must be made.
When the expected special ses
sion of congress convenes prob
ably the first week in December,
the question uppermost in the
Public Invited
To Square Dance
Saturday Night, 9:00
Sparta High School Gym
Prior To Dance
At 7:00P.M.
GOOD STRING MUSIC
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ADMISSION WILL BE CHARGED
BANQUET WILL BE GIVEN'
AT SPARTA HIGH SCHOOL LUNCHROOM
FOB SPARTA BASEBALL PLAYERS
AND WIVES AND SPECIALLY INVITED GUESTS
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house appropriations com
i do about appropriations
amounting to some 580 million
dollars to implement aid to Eu
i rope over the winter months?
Will this request be too big a
strain on our bi-partisan foreign
policy and will the house appro
priations committee, in effect if
not in fact, take over and be
come the determining influence
on foreign policy?
Chairman Tabej- declared when
hg recently returned from Eu
rope after touring six countries
that he saw no seriously under
fed people and the trouble with
Europeans was they didn’t work
enough. Of course this is at var
n—e ivms "W'Wai^uapiiutftiu
utterances and with reports of
many otaer touring congressmen
and senators.
Whatever policy is adopted by
the congress on foreign affairs,
it must be implemented by money
and all money bills originate in
Mr. Taber’s appropriations com
mittee. And the record of con
gress shows that Mr. Taber and
.most GOP members of his ap
propriations committee have dif
fered both with the administra
tion and with the republican
foreign spokesman’, Senator Van
denburg, on many key issues 'in
the foreign affairs field. On the
other hand the senate appropria
tions committee of which Sen.
Styles Bridges (R., N. H.), is
chairman has been in close a
greement with the foreign rela
tions committee on almost every
foreign policy question.
While he was in Berlin,' the
aging Taber, he is 67, told a press
conference, “The communists are
a wart on the body politic and
are bent on destroying the Ger
man, Austrian and Italian econo
mies. This wart must be watched
and treated where necessary.”
State department declares that
the alternative, unless we get
food and dollars to these coun
tries, particularly France and
Italy, is communism in these coun
tries — Does Mr. Tabor regard
money and food the necessary
treatment for this “wart on the
body politic” of Europe. If the
choice is between dollars and
communism, will Mr. Taber rath
. er stop communism or save dol
lars?
In toe meantime the 64 mem
bers of the two appropriations
committees have been called in
to session during November to
thrash out the question if pos
sible prior to the convening of
congress.
Secretary Clinton Anderson
told the National Press club in
an “on the record” talk that
President Truman did have some
on the
power
grain
was to a question by aw
as to what the alternative was
to which tie President referred
is his radio address to the nation
asking for increased margins on
speculative trading. Secretary
Anderson said that while the
President had no authority to or
der the increased margins, the
Commodity Credit corporation,
under the act creating it, did
have the authority to curb
the amount of trading on the
grain exchanges when, in its
opinion, it is for the national
welfarf. He said the CCC could
limit trading to oqp bushel if It
deemed it wise. On the Chicago
board of trade alone
bushels, so in one month specu
lative gambling involved almost
halt the annual production of
wheat.
The value of a farm is deter
mined largely by its present and
potential earning capacity. Its
real value, from the long time
point of view, depends upon the
net income which can be derived
from it over a period of years.
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Salt should be made accessible
to all cattle at all times. It is
best t«L use coarsely puivetized
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