Too Much Speed , Too Little
Courtesy Behind Accidents
That Explains 40,300 Road
Deaths in 1937, “Death
Begins at 40” Says
Hartford, Conn., Feb. 19 —(Special)
• .., s j c reasons for America’s shame
uitomobile accident record in 1937
“too much speed and too little
•curtesy" according to a new booklet
‘ tied "Death Begins at 40” just is
- by the Travelers Insurance Com
;;.;nv The booklet presents a com
' le analysis of last year’s traffic ac
(Ulonts. based on official figures from
.i a ,' JS states.
a here is no intention in the booklet,
m i ending to the editors, to advocate
m iies an hour or any other fixed
M,ood as a top limit. To quote:
there are times, as in heavy traf
fic or heavy fog, when 30 miles an
iim is suicidal; other times when 50
miles an hour seems reasonable. Every
driver should know, however, that if
be does have an accident it is more
likely to mean death if he is going
fast.”
Many of the features of the booklet
have been prepared especially to show
what happens in the higher (brackets
of speed. It is pointed out, for in
stance. that a car is four times harder
to stop at 50 miles an hour than it is
a* 25, and nine times harder to stop
at 75 miles an hour than at 25. A
now word, “turnability” has been
coined to express another speed fac
t or.T he driver’s turn ability, the
booklet shows, decreases rapidly as his
speed increases. Thus, he can make
only one-fourth as sharp tourn at 50
miles an hour as he could make at
25 and only oneninth as sharp a turn
at 75 as at 25.
Another set of figures shows that if
you have an accident while driving
under 40 miles an hour there is only
one chance in 44 that somebody will
be killed but if your accident comes
while you are traveling faster than 40,
there is one chance in 19 that some-
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Sponsored by J. W. Sanders, County Agent; J. T. Richardson, Assistant
County Agent; and Hattie F. Plummer, Home Demonstration Agent.
The Home Demonstration Clubs at
Flovdtown, Bear Pond and at Aycock
held interesting meetings this week.
4-H Clubs were held at Middleburg,
Aycock and Townsville.
New Farm Program Designed To
Stabilize Crop Prices.
The new farm bill, recently enacted
into law, will unloose a double-bar
relied attack on soil losses and croo
surpluses, according to E. Y. Floyd,
AAA executive office at State Col
lege.
The Agricultural Conservation pro
gram, which has already been map-
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body will be killed.
Whilfe the folly of high speed pro
vides the main theme of the booklet,
there is a secondary theme which runs
consistently through the issue. It is
the need {or courtesy on the highway.
After analyzing reports of 40,300
fatalities and 1,221,0 JO injuries in
traffic accidents last year, the com
pany’s statisticians point to those in
teresting and little known facts about
accidents;
Exceeding the speed limit was re
sponsible for 37 per cent of the deaths
and 25 per cent of the injuries.
More than 94 per cent of drivers in
volved in fatal accidents were male
and less than six per cent female. It
does not necessarily follow that wo
men are safer drivers than men, it is
pointed out, because adequate data on
the relative exposure are lacking.
Ninety-seven per cent of drivers in
volved in fatal accidents had had one
or more years’ driving experience.
More than 78 per cent of all fatal
accidents occurred when the road sur
face was dry. Eighty-three per cent
of all fatal accidents occurred in clear
weather.
More persons were killed on Sunday
than on any other day. The heaviest
injury toll came on Saturday. More
persons were killed between seven and
eight o’clock in the evening than at
any other time.
Fatalities increased last year in
every age group except that from five
to fourteen years of age..
In the last fifteen years, 441,912 per
sons have been killed in the U. S. by
automobiles. This is almost double
the number of American soldiers kill
ed in action or died of wounds in all
the wars this country has engaged in
since its birth.
The insurance company will distri
bute two million copies of the booklet
this year in the interest of street and
highway safety. Single copies or
quantities may be obtained gratis by
writing the company or any of its
agents.
ped out and placed before farmers,
will be continued along with pav
ments to growers who carry out soil
building practices.
Included in the new Act are pro
visions designed to control surpluses
of tobacco, cotton, wheat, rice, ancl
corn. Through the control of bumper
crops, it is expected that farm income
will improved, Floyd said.
In addition, the new Act intends to
protect the consumer as well as the
farmer. By storing away surplus
wheat and then releasing it when
necessary, a fairly constant level will
be maintained. Also crop insurance
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Under the Agricultural Conserva
tion program, North Carolina’s flue
cured tobacco allotment for 1938 will
be 570,000 to 580,000 acres, while the
cotton allotment is 902,525, acres.
One of the provisions ot the new
farm legislation calls for the estab
lishment of marketing quotas on the
five basic crops if supplies reach top
heavy levels. After the Secretary of
Agriculture announces that quotas
will be clamped on a particular crop,
growers of that commodity will be
given a chance to express their ap
proval or disapproval in a referendum.
If more than one-third of the farm
ers vote against the quota, it will not
be effective. .
A referendum among producers oi
flue-cured tobacco has already teen j
called. Should the growers vote lavci
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ably, North Carolina’s uuota would
bo close to 500 0)0,0.0 pounds: or
about 70 per cent of the total. Any
f.tmer who g r ew toiaor* ii: !h37 will
o- eligible to vote.
Because of the bn :*>• cotton rroj
i; st year which .cs j in a huge
carry - over, the SjC'ft.aiy has an
nounced that quotas will be placed
on this crop. A* in the case of tooacco
farmers wdl be given a chance to ex
press their w'P.v.s.
Barley tobacco quotas will not be
effective at the pro,»r.t time, but if
a large 1938 crop shou’d result before
the opening of markets next fall,
quotas will be pnei '.ni> 1
Floyd explained that acreage allot
ments are separate marketing
quotas under the ue v act. Most of the
acreage allotments have already been
set up under the Ague ullural Con-
servation program. These were deter
mined after a ietiH'J s:tuuj had been
made of the s’ pply or. hand and the
amount of the crop which farmeis
might produce :u 1y33 to biing rea
sonable prices.
For instance, taking a lock at
the large crop of flue-cured tot neon
in 1937 which result*. I in an unusual
ly heavy carry-over, it was decided
that growers could not pls-nt more
than 570,000 to 580,000 acres in North
Carolina this year if they wished to
keep-market prices up. Thus the a!
lotment was set between those figure*
The marketing quota becomes effec
tive if the Secretary sees that the al
lotment will be exceeded, Floyd ex
palined.
North Carolina’s quota for flu-cured
leaf will be divided up among tobacco
producing counties, then apportioned
to communities, and finally down to
individual farms.
Marketing in excess of the quota es
tablished becomes subject to penalty
Supplies withheld under the quotas
may be released under certain con
ditions to meet any need that might
develop.
Floyd said the Act will tie admin
istered locally as were the other pro
grams in the past.
D. E. Jones, Rural Electrification
Specialist from State College, con
ducted a Rural Electrification Tour
this week in the county. The homes
of the following were visited during
the day: Mr. and Mrs. Turner Stain
back, Mr. and Mrs. D. L. Hoyle, Mr.
and Mrs. H. B. Newman, Mr. and Mrs
S. P. Brummitt, Mr. and Mrs. H. B.
Brummitt afid Mr. and Mrs. H. •J.
Farks. The people who attended these
meetings in the homes saw almost all
electrical conveniences. - Evereycne is
so pleased with the electric lights anO
now they are going further fcy putting
in electric appliances. In the homes
visited on this tour there were elec
tric washing machines and irons,
electric sHov-is, refrigerators, water
systems, churns, and also electric
razors and cigarette lighters. We can
see that there is no end to what the
country people can do when they get
interested in a project.
Question: What are the primary
factors to consider in selecting hatch
ing eggs?
Answer: The most important thing
is to see that the eggs are produced
by healthy birds, free from disease
and parasites. Then select only those
eggs that are true to type, of proper
shape and size, and have good shell
texture. The collection and storage
of hatching eggs should be consider
ed. Collections should be made several
times a day and the eggs stored in a
room that is fairly humid with a tem
perature of about 50 degrees. While
in storage the eggs should be turned
daily. If the eggs are carefully in
spected and handled and the incuba
tor properly operated the percent of
hatch will more than pay for the ex
tra trouble.
Question: How can I get rid of
small worms in my tobacco plant
beds?
Answer: These small worms often
cause severe damage ty uprooting
the young plants, but they can be
easily controlled with napthalene
flakes applied at the rate of one and
one-half pounds to each 100 square
yards of bed. One to three applications
may be necessary and these should
be made one week apart. If the treat
ment is made just before a strong
wind, it should be repeated at once
as the wind will blow the napthalene
gas out of the bed as fast as it is
formed. Do not confuse the small
worm with the adult black flies and
midges that swarm under the canvas.
These insects cause no damage to the
tobacco plants, but are often blamed
for flea-beetle and small worm dam
age
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