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WATOjjTjMJ N. C, TUESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1919
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Number 63
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rnlJNTY AGENT TELLS THE
VALE OF COVER CROP
Indications Point To Numbers of
Acres Being Seeded This Fall;
Miss Rankin Gives Receipts
For Preserving.
re will be quite a few acres of
The
It is very important that certain rules
-overning successful growing of al
falfa be followed. One of the chief
reasons who so many fail in the at
tempt to grow alfalfa is because these
Vales are not followed.
To succeed with alfalfa a fairly
jich soil is necessary. Unlike sweet
clover which isvery closely related! tc
alfalfa, it will not grow on - a poor
soil Sweet cloves will "make a fair
growth on very poor soil and because
it carries the same inoculation as
Joes alfalfa it is a good crop to pro
ceed it. It might be well for a per
son who wants to sell alfalfa and does
not have his land as rich as it should
be, to first grow a crop of sweet
clover and then seed to alfalfa. We
might say that this crop serves a
double purpose in preparing for alfal
fa, it not only mproves .he land by
.'ravin? nitro.m from the air but it
Iso furnishes the proper inoculation.
It is not advisable to seed alfalfa
without first making an application
of lime, ground lime stone is probably
the cheapet form to apply. It is best
to apply from four to five tons per
acre. It should! be applied after the
land is broken and then harrowed into
the soil. Never plow it in.
Like all legumes alfalfa will not
?;row without the proper inoculation,
and for this reason it is folly to seed
it without inoculation. The seed may
he inoculated with a pure commercial
culture or the land itself may be in
oculated by carrying soil from a field
where alfalfa has grown and spread
ing the soil lightly over the field. If
the latter method is used it should be
done on s cloudy day so that the hot
sun will not kqill the organisms in the
soil.
Quite a few failures in growing al
falfa have been made by attempting
to manure the land just prior to seed
ing. If stable manure is applied to
the land just before seeding time the
result is almost certain failure. The
manure carries a great many grass
and wild seeds with it and these are
enemies to alfalfa, the weeds and
grass spring up and! choke the young
plants. No manure should be applied
within at least a year before seeding
time. Land to be seeded to alfalfa
should be kept as free as possible
from all grass and weed seeds.
Experiments have shown that from
15 to 20 pounds of seed is the proper
amounts to apply per acre. Generally
speaking about the middle of Septem
ber is the proper time to seed. How
ler the season and weather condi
tions will have some effect upon the
time of seeding.
'Preserved Watermelon Rind. Cut
1 Pound rind into 1-inch squares. Re
move peel and all pink part. Soak
fver night in lime water (1 ounce lime
to 2
quarts water). The following
orning let stand for 2 hours in clear
water. Drain well, then drop into
jhne water and boil rapidly for 10
mutes. Drain again and add grad
ta'y to the syrup (made by boiling
JSether 2 cups of sugar and! 1 quart
water.) Add to this the juice of
r"- lemon and 3 extra slices of lemon.
a00k until the melon is tender and
'ransparent a if
1 . ld; arrange the nieres nttrnrtivelv
L 3a?S' garnishing with slices of
Cover with the syrup testing
11 55 derees. Pack in jar No.
' Process 15 minutes.
a "range Marmalade. Use 6 oranges
"2 lemon. Peel off the yellow
Use the oranSes as thin as possible.
0, the white part of the skin for
memf pectin- Remove the tough
juice frm the pulp Add lemtm
Mp ITa o ? SUre' To every cup of
adJ cup of suSar- Do not
the bUvar Until the fruit has reached
iv tw g Point; then add very slow-
leduo a . CI"i,eraiure may not oe
- Pectin tablesPonfuls of orange
Rives i tn tne marmalaae
the yeii rV aPPearance. Some of
ow skin of the orange may be
WILBUR HAYES
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Son of Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Hayes,
of Norlina, member of the Park Artil
lery, who reached! home straight from
the Rhine Sunday. , Mr. Hayes was a
student at the Graham High School
and at A. & E. College, . He volun
teered early in the war and saw sev
eral months hard service before the
aimistice. He has been stationed with
the American Ariiry of Occupation
near Cobleritz since November. His
friends are pleased to welcome his re
turn. It has been our good fortune
to publish several letters from Mr.
Hayes which the readers of the War
ren Record remember with pleasure.
cut in very thin slices and added as
soon as all sugar is in. Cook to a jelly-like
consistency or a temperature
of 105 1-2 C. Pack in 4-H jam pot or
jar No. 5042.
Gingered Pears. 10 pounds of pears,
peeled and quartered; 7 1-2 pounds of
sugar; 4 ounces of ginger root or 2
level tablespconfuls of powdered gin
ger; juice and the grated yellow part
of the rind of 3 lemons.
Grind pears through meat chopper.
Place all ingredients in enameled ket
tle. Cook for about 2 hours,, or until
amber- colored . anc of the" consistency
of jam. Pack while boiling hot in jar
No. 5042 or in 4-H jam pot.
Powell. Home Demonstration
Work. U. S. Depart, of Agriculture.
TO MEMBERS OF WOMAN'S CLUB
Since the county picnic will be
Thursday and Mrs. Henley will give
demonstration in cottage cheese, jel
ly and bread making just the lines
along which we were going to have
our meeting for Tuesday. So all of
you come to the court room at 10
o'clock. Be sure ad be there for the
beginning.
Bring your dinner and stay for the
afternoon session when -Mrs. Henley
will lecture to the men and women.
MRS. W. A. CONNELL,
Chmn. Home Ecconomics Dept.
GIVES DELIGHTFUL BARBECUE
On July 16 at their home near Ar
eola, Mr. and Mrs. John Gupton gave
a delightful babecue and dinner in
honor of their son Garland!, who has
recently returned . from prance. Al.
of their children (8 in number), twenty-seven
grand children-and one great
grand child be sides a large number of
friends and relatives were there to
enjoy the occasion.
The table was spread out under the
great oaks and everything to tempt
one's appetite was there on. Afte;.
dinner, the young folks and older
people chatted while the children roll
ed on the grass.
About four o'clock the happy party
reluctantly left for their different
homes after having spent such a pleas
ant day, wishing Mr. and Mrs. Gupton
a long and happy life.
VETERANS OF SIXTY-ONE
tv.o fnllowincr Warren County Con
federate attended the re-union at
Rocky Mount last week,. and report it
to have been one of the best ever nem:
Philin Alston. Austin Allen, John W.
Allen, Henry B. Hunter, William D.
Daniel,' Robert McCroden, Isaac Wei-
don, N. M. Wilson, James Mustian, m.
T Dnke. A. S. Webb and S. W. Ham -
let. All Honor to these boys of sixty
one! They have the love of countless
thousands and the esteem and respect
of their once enemies as General Lee
would say "Our friends the Enemy.
We believe you nee'd our paper; we
know we need your subscription
Subscribe to the Warren Record.
QUS A
undergo
Need For Less Murmerings and More
Devotion To Duty Apparent Which
Policy Alone Will Perpetuate Better
Understanding.
(By J. E. Jones)
The identical railroad labor bodies
which three summers ago refused
arbitration of their wage demands, is
sued a strike order, and then held the
wsth on the Congress of the United
States until, this for mof duress and
just in time to avert the strike, that
Congress passed a bill hoisting rail
road wages, have returnee? to Wash
ington. The total advance of all rail
way labor charges since that day has
been $1,200,000,000 an annal expen
diture in excess of interest charges on
our total war debt., ' '
This time again the Railway Broth
erhoods demand legislation, but a fur
ther wage advance of a billion is ac
tually the least of their demands. The
Brotherhoods' leaders now state that
Congress is to legislate the railroad's,
now under government operation and
losing $500,000,000 this year from the
U. S. Treasury, actually into govern
ment ownership. If this is not done,
labor leaders publicly threaten a na
tionwide strike, far more serious than
that threatened in 1916.
They also make it clear in pubnc
staments that this itself is merely a
stept toward ' nationalization of all
industry, whether factory or mine or
farm. In other words, the control and
ultimate ownership not only of rail
roads but of all . little industries it is
proposed to vest in "the working
classes." This was proposed in Rus
sia, and!. has. been tested there, during
the past two 'years, with results
which are sufficiently familiar to any
one able to read.
The start is the "Plum plan." This
railway measure seeks to refinance
$18,000,000,000 railway securities by
government bonds (this total is about
three-fourths of the total bonds of
our war loan) thus eliminating all
private capital. It would combine all
railroads and! alminister them by a
board equally selected from labor, gov
ernment, but a deficit would be borne
by the taxpayer. The board would
determine wages and working hours.
Lenine and Trotsky in their state
ment to Russians proposed "handing
over the large estates to the peas
ants." The Brotherhood program pro
gram proposes to start by handing the
railroads over to the( wage-earners.
The Russian scheme providted for the
"transfer of all authority to the Coun
cil of Workmen's and Soldiers' Dele
gates." The Brotherhoods' Council
will be controlled by the Brotherhoods.
Lenine's policy enunciated time and
again "looked toward an exclusively
proletariat republic." - The Brother
hoods are moving in the same direc
tion. One of these revolutions wj3
devised for ignorant Russia; the other
has .been proclaimed for the United
States, which we hold to be a highly
intelligent nation. There is no at
tempt to conceal the true state of af
fairs, and! it should be recognized that
our own country is face to face with
the reality:. Do we want a Bolshevist
America? If we do, then the Rail
road Brotherhoods offer a program
that is intended to speedily pave the
way toward so-called "nationalization"
of all industry.
A few days before the Brotherhoods
broke loose the President asked Con
gress to provide a Fedteral Commis
sion along the lines of the Interstate
Commerce Commission, with power to
fix salaries of railroad wage-earners.
When a. similar policy was entered
into for the handling of labor prob
lems along these lines during the war
organized labor was immensely pleas
ed, and most awards were satisfactory
to the wage-earners. Even before the
war, the Brotherhoods made frequent
demands upon Washinton and they
always got everything they askec? for.
Matters were made so easy for them
that it is clear that the Brotherhoods
have come to regard Congress as
"easy," and instead of respecting it
for its helpfulness, . the leaders of
these organizations have become ar
rogant by reason of their successes.
This is evidenced by the comments of
one of the labor spokesmen concern
ing the suggestion ' of President Wil
IE MUS
BUG GRANGE
son for a study of the railway prob
lem, He says: "The Railroads will be
tied up so tight that they will never
run again if that legislation is pass
ed." , There is nothing in that statement,
or in the proclamation of the Brother
hoods that pretends to deal with labor
settlements in the way recognized by
law and free civilized governments.
Instead a demand is made upon the
country for an entire charge in its
manner in conducting its affairs.
Congressmen are already beginning to
hear from constitutients Who do not
piopose that the interests of 100,000,
000 people are to be held of less im
portance than the wishes of about
one and one-half per cent of the pop
ulation.
Wages Afrid The Brotherhoods
The Railroad Brotherhoods, repre
senting 1,500,000 men on all railways
in the United States, have delivered
an ultimatum to the Government that
they will tie up all transportation
from coast to coast, to force another
billion dollar wage advance, and at
the same time compel the Government
to buy the railways and turn them
over the employes for their manage
ment.
Members of Congress who are as
tounded by this latest Brotherhood ul
timatum regard this plan cs Bolshev
ism of the purest Russian type. The
Government has been very liberal in
its treatment of railway employes,
Ixaving Tncf eased their payroll from
$1,750,000,000 in 1917 to $2,900,000
i this year. This in en increase in the
payroll of $1,150,000,000. The Gov-
ernment has raised the average
wages of railroad! workqers from
$1,000 to $1,500 a year, and has rais
ed the average of 400,000 of the bet
ter paid men to more than $2,000 a
year. Thousands of the .employes are
now earning much more than the un
der officials of the roads.
But, in spite of this enormous in
crease in the payroll, without a paral
lel in the history of industry, the
leaders of the organized forces are
now asking for a billion dollars more.
This would bring the average wages
cf all employes, including unskilled as
well as skilled labor, up to $2,000 a
year. The workers in the railway
shops who received a wage increase
of $360,000,000 last year, are v aw ask
ing for $210,000,000 more. The. four
train brotherhoods who have received!
$200,000,000 of increased wages in ad
uition to the $60,600,000 awarded by
the Adamson Law, are asking for
$250,000,000 mdre.
Spokesmen for the employes offic
ially notified the Railroad Administra
tion that the billion dollar increase of
the past year is most unsatisfactory
to the men, and does not enable them
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Office Hours Of
Supt. of Schools
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A County Superintendent of Schools
is commonly understood to be entitled
to take, during some part of the sum
mer months, two weeks or more of
vacation for complete rest. If he does
his work fully and well, he heeds it.
I shall hot take such a vacation this
year. On the contrary, I regret that
it will not be possible for me to devote
every moment of my time during the
summer to the work of the schot Is.
But several months ago I agreed to
undertake, as a labor of love for help
less orphans, a few weeks', work .at
the Oxford Orphan Asylum. When I
was elected as your Superintendent I
tried to have other provision made for
this work, but such was not entirely
possible. The treasurer is sick and
taking hospital treatment, and the
needs of the children must be attend
ed to. Therefore I have been, as I
shall continue, to do for. two weeks
more, spending a few hours each week
in the Orphanage because I should
have felt like a deserter if I had not.
A great number of people in the
county understood this, but I explain
it in these columns that it may not by
others be misunderstood, if at any
time my office should be found to be
closed.
I intend to devite my whole store
of Viergy, ability, force and power to
the cause of the schools. But I shall
not be always in the office in the
court house. I have to superintend
ent building work, consult with com
mittees, visit schools and know every
situation at first hand. A superin
tendent must not sit in his swivel
chair in his office to earn his salary.
His best work is in the schools them
selves.
Yours for the best schools possible,
J. EDWARD ALLEN,
County Superintendent.
. FUNNY?
(The Garden Spot News) -Do
you know that an editor or re
porter for a newspaper can in his
rounds s.top and ask a hundred per
sons "What is the news?" and ninety
out of the hundred will reply "Not.i
ing special," and yet fifty out of that
number know something that if not
found in the next paper will astonish
them greatly and disappoint them
more, and perhaps makes them mad
dter than hornets. Don't be afraid to
let the newspaper man know it.
NOTITCE TO SCHOOL COM
MITTEESSCHOOL CENSUS
All school committees are asked to
make provision at once for taking the
census in their respective districts.
Under the law of 1919, this duty is in
the hands of the local committee, and
this committee should at once appoint
some capable person to take the cen
sus. I am mailing out the blanks,
which reached me this morning, by
today's mail.
The first words on the blank are
these: "This Report of the Census
Must be filled out Accurately and in
full before the County Superintendent
can approve voucher in payment for
taking census." The census is worth
less unless it is full and accuratel; if
full and accurate, it is indispensable.
Under the new compulsory attendance
law every teacher Must Have It ano
Use It.
Every citizen of the county is earn
estly urged to assist the census-taker,
so that he census may be accurate and
complete.
J. EDWARD ALLEN,
County Superintendent.
Mr. Walter Burroughs was in town
Saturday.
Mrs. Beaufort Scull, of Areola, was
in Jtown Tuesday.
Mr. Ed Stegall was a pleasant vis
itor here this week.
Mr. Weldon T. Davis was in the
c:ty Tuesday on business.
Mr. Edward Plummer, of Newport
News and Mr. Wallace Cawthorne,
cf Warren Plains, were in town to
day.
' And there are those so easily dis
couraged that they quit before they
begin Merchant's Journal and Com
merce.
WISE BETTERMENT MEETS 14TH
The Wise Betterment Society will
be held Thursday, August 14, with its
President Miss Carrie Dunn. Thrift
will be the subject of the meeting.
Everybody is invited to attend.
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AGRICULTURAL PICNIC IS
TO BRING CROWD THURSD'Y
Program of ,Many Features To
Be Carried Ou; Tractor Dem
onstration At Graham's; Bas
ket Picnic To Be Served.
Reports from various sources to
County Agent J. W. Bason bear evi
dence that Thursday, August 14th, is
to be a great picnic day for the farm
ers of Warren county. From every
source information has it that the
farmers, their wives and children will
be in attendance.
The County Board of Agriculture,
under whose direction this picnic is
held, is a new institution in Warren,
but its field! of useful service is large
and the meeting here this week will
develop a part of its service to the
agricultural interests of the coianty,
authorities state.
Within each township representa
tives of the Board are busily engaged
arousing interest in the gathering.
The county agent has perfected the
program and the day will include fea
tures of interest to all present.
The court house will be the center
of the day's program with the excep
tion of the tractor demonstration
which will be held near Mr. John
Graham's residence. A . display of
Delco and Lalley lighting systems will
be features of general interest as well
as a talk and demonstration on tire
care by special representative Rich
ardson at the Boyd-Gillam Motor Co.
The following program will be car
ried out:
10 a. m. TractoPlowing in field
near Warrenton.
Cottage Cheese, Demonstration
Court Room.
11 a. m. Lalley Lighting System in
Country Home Court House
Square.
Jelly Making Dem. Court Room.
12 m. Demonstration on Selecting a
Family CowCourt House Square
1 p. m. Dinner.
2 p. m. Address Mr. Tasker Polk.
2:30 p. m. Address Mr. T. D. Mc-
Leon, District Demonstration Agr
3 p. m. Address Mr. T E. Brown,
Director Vocational Education
:J:30 p. m. Talk Mrs. Henley, Dis
trict Home Demon -rcratiorx Agent
4 p. m. Talk, Mr. Garne':, Assistant
trict Home Demonstration Agent
in Markets.
The farmers of the county will
bring baskets and the day is to prove
an occasion of worth and good fellow
ship. ARCOLA IETMS
We are glad indeed to welcome the
sunshine again. So many bridges
have been washed away, some of them
entirely, so that we feel pretty well
hedged in. '
Mr. and! Mrs. J. F. Hunter and sons
have returned from Rocky Mt., where
they were visiting during the inces
sant rain. While there, their brother-in-law,
Mr. G. D. Modlin, who they
were visiting, had the misfortune to
have his car a seven passenger
Chandler completely burned up in a
garage. The mechanic was cleaning
the motor with gasoline while the
lights were on, thus causing a spar.
Miss Lucy Burt, of Louisburg, is
visiting her grandmother.
Misses Emma May Daniel, Eula
Clark ad Lizzie Warren, of Macon,
Sallie V. and Hazel Tharringtoh, of
Rocky Mount, visited Miss Ethel
King last week.
The meeting at this place closed
Sunday with eight accessions to the
church. Rev. Wilkinson, of the West
Texas Conference, ?id some -able
speaking and many people renewed
their faith. Regardless of rain and
bad, roads we had a wonderful meet
ing. The Young People's Missionary So
city met with Miss Lula Hunter on
Wednesday night, July 30.
Little Miss Morris Reid, who has
been suffering with eresyphalis, has
recovered enough to be out again.
There will be an ice cream supper
here Thursday night August 7th.
Proceeds for benefit of Young People's
Missionary Society.
The fellow that caries the burden is
the one who grows strong. Mer
chant's Journal and Commerce.