/OLUME VA IS, THAT AND THE OTHER ! * By MRS. THKO. B. DAVIS Out near Hales Chapel Mr. antley Richardson grows a toma which he says bears aH through e summer and until frost. He has ved his own seed for years, and ows what he is talking about. He ve us some of the tomatoes last inday. ‘ They are bright red, looth, meaty, of good size and Ivor. I've saved some of the seed d, if they do as well for us as r Mr. Richardson, nobody need y Brimmer, Bonnie Best, Earli 1a or any other name of a tomato me. I’ll have what I want. Last week I overheard one per rson trying to tell another where e Joe Tipoett farm is. After a bit e one who wanted to know said: ). yes, I know! That place that al avs looks so neat and well-kept.’ ich a nice means of identification! nd it’s a pity that every home in sis section can’t be described that ay. In these piping times of progress id repeal one can't help hearing u-ious and sundry arguments by iose who argue and those who •gufv. Naturally, prohibition is a ajor subject. I try to be charitable mv opinions, so I concede that •ohibition as managed, and mis- j anaged, has not been wholly a ccess. I do not know the gross rcentages of drinking before and ter the passing of the eighteenth nendment, though I have seen mething of the grossness of it. I •ree heartily with the idea tla*. e highest form of temperance is ls-control and not law. I know » need money to run the govern ent. I believe that many honest, ' icere people think the present law to liquor should be repealed. But what I cannot possibly un rstand is how any sane person 10 lived before the day of prohi ,ion, or who has studied the his ry of our country can claim that pealing the eighteenth amend •nt would help put bootleggers t of business. Don’t try to tell that to me. iven’t I known of “moonshiners”, lockaders,” and such all througfi ; days when there were open sa ins? Haven’t my own ears heard ners of licensed distilleries la sting that the tax was so high •y couldn’t make any profit be ise folks could buy moonshine so ch cheaper? What about the liskey Rebellion in 1794 and the .iskey Ring in 1875? What about incurable feeling that it is art to cheat the government? d a lawless man would as soon aka state law as a federal law. 'ell it in Gath and publish it in streets of Askelon, if you will; please don’t come telling me t repeal will stop bootlegging, liable to become impatient. here’s probably no domestic mal or fowl more annoying, ir iting and aggravating than a rken, large enough to run und without its mother, hut not ’C enough to fry; small enough slip through the cracks of a •e or the meshes of poultry wire, ‘ not able to find the way back; enough to do untold mischief in vegetable or flower garden but y ung to kill. ;’s almost more than one can .ire, even when his own chickens ! the offenders in his own gar- And I’m willig to go on record saying that I’d not blame my ;hbor for killing any chicken tine that is found doing damage lis property. I have never done ■ t a thing, but can certainly sym-j lize with those who “obey that: ulrte.” oesn’t it seem that the weeds grass are all set and ready to, then the first drop of rain falls,; , e crops and gardens must wait i fe whether the shower is real-, \h stirring for? *State of North Carolina h had no legal holidays until j ‘f t has since legalized 12 holi that are observed in the state year. 3lhr Zrfmlmt Sterorti Irrigation For Your Gardens By L. A. Hawkins Agricultural Extension Department International Harvester Company Irrigation of the garden is very important where the summer rain fall is not' sufficient or regular e- j nough to allow good vegetable pro-; duction. Many times.plants can get enough moisture from the soil to grow through the early part of the season but run short of water to mature the crop. This is particu larly true of plants like tomatoes, eggplants, potatoes, etc. In cases of this kind just a single applica tion of water will often save the crop. An ample supply of moisture is not only necesasry for growth and yield but improves the quality of most garden vegetables. Many vegetables lose their palatability if dry weather slows up their matur ity. In sections where summer rains or showers, prevail proper cultural practices will conserve moisture e nough to take care of vegetables, but in dry sections artificial means j of watering should be provided to insure a successful vegetable gar den. Town gardens invariably have opportunity of irrigating with a hose attached to city water sys tems. Farm gardens may be irri gated with the home water supply , system if available, or the patch j can be located so water from a I stream or ditch can be used in the : furrow system. There are two practical methods of applying water furrow j gation and overhead spraying. With j | pressure systems we can use either i me or both. The sprinkler system | is good where a general application is wanted, but it a particular row needs to be watered the furrow: system is more satisfactory. Make small furrows along the row into which water is run until the soil is thoroughly wet. On light soils or where row’s are not over eight een inches apart one furrow be tween rows will do. Furrows should j be closer on shallow rooted crops, a:qi where rows are farther apart ■ a furrow should run on each side j of the row. On heavy soils or for . deep-rooted crops, the furrows need i not be so close and about halt the j number will do the same work. In : applying water by this system the: rate of flow must be regulated, so j the soil will take it up fast enough | to prevent the surface becoming j flooded. In ! : ght sandy soils fur- i rows should not be over 200 feet j long. On heavy soils they may be twice as long. The overhead system of irriga-1 ti«n requires an elevated pipe line i and a pressure water system. It is used extensively in intensive com mercial gardening districts. It can j be usefl on land too uneven for sur- j i face irrigation and will prove very | profitable in many gardens, parti cularly where the supply of water | is already available. One line of j pipe could be so arranged that it would serve for a vegetable garden large enough for the average fami j ly. The pipe should be supported on posts about six feet high, set | in a row of plants through the mid dle of the patch so it will not both jer cultivation. Small holes are drilled in a straight line along one I side of the pipe every four or six | feet. Holes are threaded and small nozzles screwed in thru which the , i water spurts in a spray-like stream j i Pressure an ( | direction of nozzles! i will determine distance of spray, j By having the pipe arranged for. revolving it can be turned from one side to the other. In small gar dens or where only a few special plants ate to be irrigated a can, with small holes in the bottom may be sunk into the ground near the plant, and filled with water each day. The amount of water and the time to apply it will depend upon many things, but a thorough soak ing should be given when any ir rigating is done and the soil should be tested for moisture every time. It should be wet to a depth of 10 or 12 inches by pushing a stick in to the ground between the furrows we can tell when this has been ac c<mplished. The method of apply ing does not affect the wisdom of i a good-wetting. Where we use the hose a* a sprinkler we commonly moke the mistake of wetting too - ZEBULON, NORT H CAROLINA. FRIDAY. .11 LY 21, 1933. “Great Grand-Dad” Great grand-dad when the land was young Barred his door with a wagon tongue, Tlje times were rough and the wilderness tnocked And he said his prayers with his shotgun cocked; He was a citizen tough and grim, Danger was like “cluck soup” to him. His great-grandson now falls asleep And fears no harm from the darkness deep, For great grand-daddy fought and won And tamed the land for his great-grandson. Great grand-dad was a busy man, He cooked his grub in a frying pan, He picked his teeth with a hunting knife, And wore the same suit all his life. He ate cornbread and bacon fat But great-gradson would starve on that. Great grand-dad was gaunt with toil Grimed and seamed with sun and soil, But great-gradson is fat and clean And rides to work in a limousine. Twenty-five children came to bless Great grand-dad’s home in the wilderness. Laugh at the statement if you can, But great grand-dad was a busy man. Twenty-five children, and they grew Stout and tall on the bacon, too; Slept on the floor with the dogs and cats, And shopped the woods for the coonskin hats. Freud was a mystery, so was jazz, Or giving their parents a scornful razz. II they got fresh with great grand-dad He tunnel their hides with a hickory gad. He raised them rough but he raised them well, And if thy took hold of the ways of hell, He filled them full of the fear of God And flailed their pants with an old ramrod. They grew strong of heart, and strong of hand, The firm foundation of our land. Twenty-five boys—but his great grandson To save his life can’t manage one! —Kinchen Council, Young Citizen Writes Home The following letter from one of j Zebulon’s younger citizens will j prove interesting. East Sebago, Maine. Camp O-At-Ka, Friday Night. Dear Mother: Was so glad to hear about the rain. I guess you needed it. I like the lake swell. But I spend ! a lot of my time in tennis now, be- I cause 1 won out in a tournament | and I am No. 1 man for the camp i in the 15 and under tennis, team. Tell daddy this. I am so glad I won. ; Now I can go to other camps to i play matches. ! have made a lot of friends it eems. We have a good time togeth er. I weigh 123 gained a little j but not much. My athlete’s foot is gone and have not felt a pain in my side' [since- 1 left Big Auntie’s. I have to be in bed at 8:30 and get up at 7:00 to take exercises. I like it fine. Yours, Sprite. Governor Issues Paroles, Pardons Governor Ehringhaus paroled 22 prisoners Monday, and reprieved Bryant Stone under death sentence today. Stone was convicted of mur dering his son-in-law. Those par doned were four young white men from New Jersey, who were con victed last December of highway robbery in Wilson County. often ami too sparingly at a time.! It should seldom be necessary to water oftener than once a week if it is done thoroughly. Irrigation makes the grower independent of rainfall. Miss Kemp Has Charge Os Library Mrs. C. E. Flowers, club presi dent, announces that beginning Saturday, July 29, and continuing until further notice Miss Mary 1 Elizabeth Kemp will have charge of the circulation of books in the li brary at the Woman’s Club, on each Saturday afternoon, from three un til five-thirty. Books in the library iwill be for adults chiefly. The Club is to be specially congratulated up < n having Miss Kemp to look after the books. She has had training in library work at Chapel Hill and is thus thoroughly prepared for a much larger sphere than that to which she will give her time while serving the members of the Wo man’s Club and others who may de sire to read the books. Goldsboro Man Bitten By Alligator W. M. Hines, of Goldsboro, was severely bitten on the right hand : by a four-foot alligator while tak ing him home in the baggage car! of a Norfolk Southern train Sun- j day afternoon. He had caught the i alligator with his bare hands in a ditch at Wildwood, near Morehead. i —Greensboro News. More Later McAlester, Okla, July 17.- John! Chatham has 39 chickens. Now he lias three—a rooster and two hens, j Pinned to the henhouse door | when the farmer discovered his loss was the following note: “I steel from the rich, and I steel from the pore “I will leve the old roster to raze some mor.” News and Observer. I If you sell pm, you have to tell ’em 1 Unde Billie’s Grievances i Uncle Billie Haywood, better known about town as “Charcoal i Billie,” was in to see us Tuesday morning, and he had a grievance, in fact a number of grievances. He said he began work on the cemetery the first of April, and had worked on it ever since except when he went up to Knightdale to burn a coal pit. He was to get $7.00 for the .job, but instead of ing him like a man shou! ,»e treated, the money was left at a store and he was to get only 40 cents a day in trade. He says: “Jes’ think, a man as old as I is, bein’ treated lak dat! I’se goin’ to see a lawyer.” Then he says: “It's awful the way these boys do ’round town. They won’t work to feed their f-ambly morn’n a dog. Jes foolin’ ’ way their t ime | ball. It’s scanlous the way they do. I don’t know nothin’ ’bout ball, don’t care nothin’ ’bout it.” Yes, Uncle Billie has some griev ances. He just does not like being treated like a boy if he is only about 100 years old. And the “boys” who loaf around town he's lost all patience with their doings. State Short Course The State Short Course for Farm Women will be held at State Col lege. July 24-20. Rooms will be free and meals will cost 25 cents each. Courses will be given on Food, Clothing, The Home, Health, with discussions of gardening, poultry, dairying, social planning, recrea tional leadership and other matters of deep interest to rural women. It is hope,j that the attendance will justify the preparations made. The benefits derived must depend large- Iy upon the attendance, although the value < r the locdures will nrrt be affected by the number of hear ers. State College Aids Textile Industry l As the primary function of edu cational 'institutions is to teach stu • tents, tljiy worth of any institution can be detei mineit by the quality of its product, or the students that it, graduates. Consequently, the val ue of a technical institution can be determined by the success which it ha.- in training its graduates so that they can easily fit into the field for which they are trained and render useful survice to their em ployers and to tlje industry in gen eral. The Textile School of North Car- j olina State College has established I a world wide reputation by turning out men of high calibre who have | achieved success in many phases of the textile industry. The first textile degree at State College was awarded in 1901. Since that time 410 men have received textile degrees at State College and approximately three-fourths of them are now connected with some phase of the textile industry. Approximately seventy per cent of the men row connected with the ; textile industry are located in North Carolina. Truly a remarkable J record when it is considered that State College has drawn its Tex tile students from a large number of states- and many foreign coun tries, including England, Mexico, C hina, Japan. India, Bulgaria. Ko rea, Peru and Hawaii. Some idea of the distinction; which Textile graduates of State College have achieved can be gained by perusing the variety of positions which they are now filling with marked success. Included among these positions are: President, vice-president, secre-1 tary, treasurer and manager of cot ! ton mills, silk mills, knitting mills, mercerizing plants, and textile ma chinery companies. Superintendent, assistant super intendent, foreman, assistant fore man. textile designer, and textile chemist in cotton mills, rayon j plants, knitting mills, silk mills, dyeing, finishing and mercerizing plants. Southern representative, sales; : manager, selling agent, technical j demonstrator and salesman for, i manufacturers of rayon, textile ma jehinery, dyestuffs, textile chemicals [ [ and supplies. Mill agent, representative, cost ( engineer, and salesman in commis sion houses which distribute the manufactured products of the tex -1 tile industry. Director of trade standards, tex tile analyst, and textile technolo gist for the United States Govern ! ment. Other positions include; Manufac turing engineer, purchasing agent, cotton classer. and numerous others, but the list is too long to mention j ! all of them here. Every member of the graduating I classes of 1932 and 1933 is connect-1 i ed with textile organizations. North Carolina alone has over! (‘>oo textile plants in each of which ; there are from one to a dozen! place that call for men of ability [and training. In addition to these' plants there are many manufac tilling companies which produce '•quipment and materials for the (extile industry, that require the services of technically trained men. Contemplation of these facts and the knowledge that scientific im provements in the manufacturing and processing of textile products are gradually increasing the neee<- s.ty for technically trained men in dicates that the textile industry is pl] especially attractive field for ambitious young men who have an inclination for industrial, chemical or artistic work. It is one of the w orld’- oldest industries, dating back for thousands of years, yet it is a field that is by no means crowded with highly trained men. It is aid that North Carolina tex tile plants manufacture more dif ferent types of textile products than any other state in the Union. When State College established its Textile School, practically all the fabrics woven in this state were •• ir sheetings and alamance •ring-hams. For 32 years Dr. Thom-. s’e's >n. Dean of the Textile c '• !, and other members of the • have been telling their * •d''p( i that if North Carolina was NI'MBKR 5. i' YE FLAPDOODLE" By The Swashbuckler 1 can -re the faces of.joy tho#- iw.il- <V» of readers as with ex pression* ol pained surprise they realize tjiat the Swashbuckler is not a personage of the past, but an ever present millstone around their 'neck'. To the \vishfn3 ' public who have so long wished fdr 1 bom plete abolition of* Ye Flapdoodte address these few unassuming 'words: You had your chance to> retaliate and let it pass, so for ; ever after hold your peace. ! Again my four score of readers have come to my support. When I 1 asked two weeks ago for letters on “Why the Swashbuckler’s col- I umn should be done away with?” not a letter came in. Just another ! great victory for the forgotten man. Dropped down to the Fish Harbor (Lake Myra to you) on Sunday last for a view of the wooden man. Since I had no means I of elevating my physical being to ! a sufficient altitude, no view of the giant’s face could be had. However, the feet and hands looked right well. During the course of r stay I saw a young couple racing. At any rate 1 have grounds for tny conclusions, as they were neck and neck! “Oh, dear! Wake me early mother, for I am the Queen of the May!” Betty Hales, versatile beautician ot Rhodes’ Barber Shop did on last Friday give one "Red” Horton a finger wave. As she set the waves, Betty realized that she did not possess any red clasps for the hair. Con ! sequently she was forced to use i black clasps. Your imagination j need not be stretched to visualize a red headed young man with a finger wave, held firmly in place by some twenty black clasps, as he strolled blithely down our main thoroughfare as though fingers waves grew on trejes. To Mists Hales I offer a word of advice. Be careful lest thou stickest a splin j ter in thy finger whilst giving a [ finger wavest. And as the I curtains of dusk draw nigh, I Bing j Crosby the latest hit: “You May Be The Orchids Os Your Mother’s Heart, But You’re Just A Pansy Tp jMe!” ?.a ! J Announcement ' * * <» Next Wednesday afternoon is the j regular time of meeting of the Home Demonstration club of Wake field. to become a great textile manufac turing center it would have to di versify the products of its mills. In fact, I)r. Nelson began teaching fancy leno and jacquard weaving and designing at State College in I 1901, and today he can point to | -omc of his former studets who are rendering useful service in some of j the South’s fanciest mills and have I done much to diversify the products' j of North Carolina’s textile plants. For a number of years State | College, in cooperation with the ' home economics departments of North ( arolina colleges for women has conducted a Style Show at Ra leigh, in which the young ladies from the cooperating colleges dis played garments made by them from fabrics designed and woven at State College by Textile students. These Style Shows have attracted wide attention and have done a great deal to make the women of North Carolina eotton-ruinded, thereby increasing the consumption of cotton products. Another service rendered by the State College Textile School has proven valuable to a number of mills in North Carolina. This insti tution has a faculty which has been trained in Southern, Northern and English textile schools, and they ■have had wide practical experience. Every year scores of problems , ranging from testing the strength of yarn and fabrics to highly com plicated manufacturing and chemi ' cal test- are sent to the Textile School bv North Carolina mills, and Dr. Nelson and Textile School sac -1 nit y do their utmost to aid the mills , in solving these problems, for it is their desire to make the Textile School and its well equipped labor atories a real service department f'-r the textile industry of "the state.

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