Thursday, June 25, 1942
THE BEAUFORT NEWS BEAUFORT, N. C.
Legal Notices
ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE
Having qualified as administra
tor of the estate of A. E. Gray, de
ceased, late of the County of Car
teret, North Carolina, this is to no
tify all persons having claims a
gainst the estate of said deceased
to exhibit them to the undersigned
at Newport, N. C, on or before
the 29th day of May, 1943, or this
notice will be pleaded in bar of
their recovery. All persons in
debted to said estate will please
make immediate payment.
This 22nd day of May, 1942.
EDWARD GRAY,
Administrator of A .E. Gray
W. Hill. Atty.
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THE
Home Front
We have taken in our belts, we
have tightened our economy so
that almost nothing which might
be useful in war is wasted on the
non-essentials of ordinary living.
Now we are fighting another sort
of waste which we can afford as
little as we can afford waste of
materials. We are fighting the
waste of what we call "Manpow
er" but which actually embraces
almost everyone man or woman
or adolescent child in the U.S.A.A
The Manpower Mobilization
Program, with its aim of seeing
that everyone has a job and that
each is doing the job for which he
or she is best fitted, is one attack
on tne prooiem oi manpower
waste. Another line of attack has
been stressed recently in messages
from the President himself, and
from Paul V. McNutt, Director of
The Office of Defense Health and
Welfare Services and chairman of
The War Manpower Commission.
This line of attack hits at the
waste of industrial manpower
caused by ill health. Ill health is
an enemy on the production front
fully as much as on the field of
battle. The Japanese on Bataan
were aided by malarial fevers,
which fought for them against our
troops in the steaming jungles of
that Peninsula. The Japs and the
Nazis are aided by the disease and
illness which fights on their side in
the war production centers of
America.
Good Health Compulsory
But the compulsion to remain
fit extends beyond the factory
front it is a compulsion laid upon
all of us. Indifferent health means
indifferent morale, and indiffer
ent morale is an invitation to de
feat. The weapons with which ill
health is fought on the home front
are weapons known to every house
wife proper food, proper exercise
and proper rest. On the industrial
front the problem is complicated
by other factors. Several weeks
before Mr. McNutt transmitted
the Presidents message on health
and morale to some 8,500 key ex
ecutives in war production plants,
the six Government officials most
directly concerned with increasing
our output for war appealed to
War Production Drive Commit
tees in more than 900 plasts to
fight sickness and accidents. Their
joint statement pointed out, that
sickness and injury lost 6,000,000
work days every month work
days which might otherwise have
brought victory over the Axis that
much nearer. And it pointed out
the need for active public health
departments in every community,
with enough doctors, nurses, and
hospital beds to care for workers
and their families.
The President, commending
Government and community ef
forts to improve health and mo
rale, emphasized the need for
eliminating from war industry
centers, that "major source of in
fection" the Red-Light District,
just as such districts have been
eliminated from the neighborhood
of Army camps and Naval Sta
tions. And the War Manpower
Commission chairman, addressing
"war industry executives" called
venereal diseases "one of the most
menacing" of the hazards to the
health of workers, added that
"many millions of lost work days
could be saved and . . . Needless
accidents and spoilage of mater
ials . . . prevented, with improve
ment to workers' health."
Drives Seek Rubber and Tin
We are in the midst of a brief
and concentrated drive to get all
the scrap rubber we can back to
the reclaiming plants. We are
launching another drive to collect
tin cans so that we may have tin
for bushings which reduce friction
in the engines of our military air
craft and for other vital military
purposes. Response to these drives
once more emphasizes our united
effort against the common enemy.
To most of us this unity was to
be taken for granted but there,
were those, both before and afte-
Pearl Harbor, who thought and
spoke differently. These people
said we were not alert to the dan
ger, they said we could not con
vert our industries to war in time
to help our allies, they said we
could not give our sons freely to
the fight for freedom, that we
were too soft to accept rationing,
price fixings, and those other
measures which meant for an oi
us an end to "living as U3ual."
But almost every day that goes by
disproves these lies, affords addi
tional proof of our unity in en
deavor, a unity to strike terror to
the heart of our foe. Probably tne
most striking proof of unity on the
home front has been the signal
success of the War Production
Drive, a drive which could not
have succeeded without the whole
hearted collaboration of manage
ment and the worker. Many
thought, when the War Production
Drive was first announced, that
management and labor could not
work together even to get more
hanks and cruns and planes and
ships and get them faster, but to
day joint committees of manage
ment and labor are working to
gether in more than 900 plants of
war production and neither side
neither the side of management
nor the side of labor has tried to
use the plan to chisel something
out of the other fellow.
Seek Honest Answers
The committees tried hot.estly
to find answers to these questions
How can we get more produc
tion from our machines? Ho at can
we improve quality of wor .man
ship? How can we prevent waste
of man-hours and material? The
President's goals in ships and
planes and tanks and guns hung"
upon the ability of these groups
to find answers to these questions.
And they have succeeded, '.'hat is
why War Production Board Chair
man Donald M. Nelson sa d last
week that "there is a new spirit a-
broad in this land or perhaps it
is just a spirit that was always
there."
And Mr. Nelson added " Amer
ica today is really beginnii g to
work at full speed for the first
time. We are just beginning to
realize what our strength rea'ly is.
We are just starting to us( it."
Barlin and Tokyo papers please
copy.
Farmers Must
Get Along Without
Burlap Bagging
RALEIGH, June 24. Farmers
will have to depend largely on bags
made of substitutes for burlap, on
odd-size bags, and on re-use of old
bags for handling their crops this
year, reports John W. Goodman,
assistant director of the State Col
lege Extension Service. He says
that due to the war emergency.
there will be no more heavyweight
burlap for agricultural bags this
year.
"Consequently," said Goodman,
"it is essential for farmers to plan
for greater use of cotton and pa
per bags. In many cases it will be
necessary that farmers use un
usual or odd-shaped bags. In or
der to meet war-time require
ments, textile mills are finding it
necessary to weave fabrics of cer
tain widths and constructions not
generally used by agricultural
bag manufacturers."
The Extension official said far
mers also will find that the cotton
bags will cost more than burlap
bags; however, there appears to
be no alternative except to pay a
higher price for the substitute
bags, in order to insure safe stor
age and transportation of agricul
tural commodities.
"Part of this difference in price
can be overcome by getting maxi
mum use out of all old bags now
in the farm," Goodman suggested.
"Re-use of burlap and other bags
on hand, and care of new cotton
bags for later re-use, is an import
ant part of the whole situation."
Immediately after Pearl Harbor
it was apparent that the burlap
supply would be insufficient for
both civilian and military use. On
December 22, the War Production
Board issued an order allocating
two-thirds of all burlap imports
to military uses, with one-third to
be used for agricultural bags. Ag
ricultural bags requiring light
weight burlap are now available
in small quantities for a short
time, possibly as late as December,
1942.
$100,000,000
Farm Fire Loss Can
Be Cut Sharply
RALEIGH, June 24. Farm
fires cost the Nation about $100,
000,000 annually says D. S. Weav
er, head of the State College De
partment of Agricultural Engi
neering, and fires in rural com
munities and villages add another
$125,000,000 to the annual fire
toll. Even more important in war
time, he said, is the loss in agricul
tural production when hard-to-re-
place farm buildings and their
contents go up in smoke.
"Much can be done to prevent
fires," Weaver asserted, "if farm
families will remove fire hazards
from their farmsteads. Dry, windy
days increase the likelihood of
farm fires, especially when crop
residue and weeds have dried out."
Weaver points out that an in
tensive fire-prevention and fire-
fighting program is being organiz
ed as a war-time measure by
county farm agents, local fire and
forest wardens and voluntary f ire-
fighting companies. The State Col
lege engineer lists six precautions
to take in avoiding costly farm
fires:
1. Keep supplies of gasoline in
steel drums, preferably holding
not more than 55 gallons. These
should be at least 75 feet from the
nearest building.
2. Motorized equipment using
oil or gasoline should never be
stored in buildings containing hay
or straw,
3. Never pile horse manure a
gainst the wall of a frame struc
ture. It may heat and cause fire.
4. Keep the interior of build
ings free from trash, oily rags,
and other easily ignited materials.
Remove cobwebs they burn eas-
Uncle Sam will let you
have EXTRA SUGAR
for this purpose!
Take all of your sugar books to
your local ration board.
Without removing any stamps
from your books, they will en
able you to get EXTRA SUGAR
for canning and preserving.
Your grocer will then fill your
allotment with
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North Car. State
College Hints For
Farm Homemakers
By RUTH CURRENT
State Honje Demonstration Agent
N. C. State College
The Food and Nutrition Soard
of the National Research Council
has started a campaign to obtain
the enrichment of all white bread
and flour by September 1, 1942.
Farm homemakers can help in this
program by demanding enriched
flour and bread of their local mill
ers and grocers. The enrichment
of white flour and it products is
sought in the interest of improv
ing diet, health and efficiency as
a war-time measure.
From now on women's shoes
will be more comfortable, with
lower heels and room to wiggle
your toes around. There will be
more oxfords and fewer styles.
Goatskin and kid may become the
scarcest of leathers.
Keep shoes in good repair. Shine
daily and wear half-soles proudly
as a "badge of patriotic cooperation."
Heat is the No. 1 enemy of rub
ber goods. The higher the tem
perature, the more quickly rubber
gets weak, cracks and becomes
sticky. Cold does not harm rub
ber. Rubber's enemy No. 2 is
light. Oils and greases are enemy
No. 3.
Woe unto the home dressmaker
who does not heed changing war
time fashions shortening of
jackets, the narrowing of skirts,
the slimming down of the silhou
ette all designed to use less
yardage of cloth. The woman or
girl who comes out this fall in a
dress with a full, wide skirt or a
coat with big patch pockets will be
dated, not 1942, but 1940 and
1941.
ANSWERS
To Timely
Farm Questions
Question: How may grease and
oil be removed from rubber
goods?
Answer: Some suggestions for
cleaning oil and grease spots from
rubber goods are offered by Miss
Pauline Gordon, Extension home
management specialist of State
College, as follows: If the grease,
oil, or tar i3 removed from rubber
goods immediately, you usually
can get it clean with warm water
and soap. However, in stubborn
cases, it is necessary to use carbon
tetrachloride or other dry cleaning
fluids. Never use gasoline motor
fuel. Sponge the grease, oil or tar
lightly with the cleaning fluid. If
you must soak it, never leave the
rubber in the fluid more than two
or three minutes.
Question: What wood products
are covered by the price ceilings
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Iceberg
Due to scientists of the U. S.
Department of Agriculture, new
superior strains of Iceberg lettuce
have been developed for Florida
conditions.
Soyb
cans
An Illinois soybean plant re
cently established a new record
by crushing 7,000 bushels of beans
and producing 9,000 gallons of
soybean oil daily for an entire
month.
Production of crimson clover
seed this year is expected by the
U. S. Department of Agriculture
to be about twice as large as the
previous crop record of 1941. '
iiy.
5. Never pile bundles of papers
near stoves, furnaces, or chimneys
and never keep them under stairs
or in closets.
6. Examine the farmhouse and
other farm buildings annually and
repair faulty chimneys, flues,
fireplaces and heating equipment.
Have You Contributed to the
Navy Relief Society?
Jo Relieve
Misery of
UQUO.TABLET& SALVE. NOSE DROPS.
Dr. J. O. Baxter, Jr.
Eyes Examined
Glasses Fitted
FRONT ST. BEAUFORT
DR. J. O. BAXTER
applied under the General Maxi
mum Price Regulation?
Answer: F. S. Sloan, State pro
gram leader of the Extension Ser
vice, quotes the OPA as saying
that poles, posts, piling, split
stock, mine timber, and similar
semi-finished timber products are
listed under the price ceiling regu
lations. The maximum price for
any of these products may be no
higher than the highest price the
seller charged for delivery of the
product in March, 1942. Logs are
not under price control.
Question: What is the cause of
grain bunching on the cutter bar
of the combine in harvesting oats,
wheat, rye, and barley?
Answer: J. D. Blickle, farm ma
chinery specialist of the Extension
Service, gives seven reasons for
this trouble: (1) Reel is too high
and needs adjustment, (2) sec
tions are not laying flat on the
ledger plates and need adjust
ment, (3) guards are bent and
should be straightened, (4) the
holddown clips are too loose or
too tight and should be adjusted,
(5) the sections and ledger plates
are dull, broken or worn and
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running too slowly and the speed
should be increased, and (7) the
sickle is bent or twisted and should
be straightened.
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ITj BY,
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