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Join the Farm Bureau
Mr. Sam Yancey of Varina, for whom we acquired a
great deal of respect during the past gubernatorial campaign,
is currently engaged in a campaign to obtain a record number
of members for the Wake County Farm Bureau, of which
he is president. Emphasizing the need for a strong farm
organization next year, the south Wake farmer declares:
“The coming year Is the most important ever faced
by farmers and we in North Carolina know that to hold
on to the gains already made, we must more strongly
and fully organize than ever before,
"The North Carolina Farm Bureau’s current state-wide
campaign for 80,000 members provides Tar Heel farmers
with an opportunity to get into the fight for agriculture," he
says. “On all sides we hear the farmer being unjustly blamed
for the high prices of food.
“Some of the leading radio commentators and news
papers in the nation’s industrial centers, and even in
some of our bigger Southern cities flatly blame the
farmer and his program for inflated food prices.
“We hear these charges that the farm price support pro
gram has skyrocketed the cost of food, even though we
know this to be untrue because most commodities are selling
at prices far above the government price support schedule.
Despite the fact that this argument against supports does
not hold up, some consumers are being led to believe it.
“This condition alone should be enough to alert
farmers to the need for strong, sound organization.”
Yancey points out that on Friday, September 3, Secre
tary of Agriculture Charles F. Brannan emphasized that
high food prices are not the result of farm price supports.
Brannan pointed out that the government is not supporting
the price of dairy products, poultry, meat or any animal'
from which meat comes.
Brannan added that bread has no government
support price, but the price of bread has not come down
even though wheat prices have dropped almost $1 per
bushel in recent months. He also stressed that the 1948
wheat price support is $2 per bushel while the 1947
season average price received by farmers was $2.31.
“Price supports are helping the consumer by encourag
ing production," Brannan said. “It is partly due to the price
support system that our people are enjoying better diets,
including a great deal more meat and milk than in pre-war
years."
Yancey says that because some people would like
to have the farmer take the blame for the high cost
of living, farmers should be more determined than ever
to organize to work together for their own welfare.
Wake County has a Farm Bureau membership quota of
3,000 in the present drive, he adds.
“There is no reason why every farmer in North Carolina
should not be a member of Farm Bureau,” Yancey says.
“The only way farmers will ever reach and maintain their
rightful place in our national economy is through organiza
tion, and Farm Bureau, with more than 1,276,000 farm
families making up its membership in the nation, provides
the American farmer with the strongest voice he has ever
had.”
With such progressive leaders as Mr. Yancey in the
Farm Bureau organization, we can rest assured that the
leadership of the farm group will chase no such will-of-the
wisps as have been chased during the past year in North
Carolina; we sincerely hope that every farmer in this com
munity will affiliate himself with the Farm Bureau this fall,
and that every merchant will become an associate member.
From Whence Cometh Our Help
Perhaps it was the pathetically small crowd that came
out to greet the Dixiecrat presidential candidate in Raleigh
Tuesday night (we got a better crowd last June in a county
our candidate lost by 3 to 1) that made Mr. Thurmond bitter,
but he seemed a bit too critical of North Carolina’s middle
of-the-road attitude.
We might join Senator Broughton, who expressed a
belief at the August meeting of the State Democratic Exe
cutive Committee meeting in Raleigh that North Carolinians
did not need anybody coming down from Yankeeland to tell
them how to get along with the Negroes; we can add without
rancor that neither do we need such advice from south of
the border.
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By Mrs. Theo B. Davis
A housekeeping expert advices
us to save oap and work by wash
ing dishes this way:
Mix only a small quanity of
suds and do not immerse the dish
es. Instead, hold each piece in one
hand (one at a time, of course)
and with the other dip a dishmop
in the soapy water, wash the piece
and rinse it at once in hot water,
which is supposed to be flowing
from the faucet.
I tried it, mixing my soap in
water in a quart can. Then I mop
ped and rinsed —and measuered. If
you don’t let the hot water run
freely, this method takes little
more water and much less soap
than when a big pan is used; but
I felt too silly for words; as if I
were playing. I never feel my duty
has been done to dishes unless I
get into the water up above my
wrists.
Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt’s death
last week brought back many
memories to us who are older. We
recalled that her three sons were
all killed in World Wars I and 11,
and wondered at her courage. We
remembered the gentle lady she
was during the days her husband
was our president; days when any
reporter who needed a Washing
ton story had only to pass the
White House and observe the
Roosevelt children, who were for
ever “up to something,” and when
Continuing with this quarter’s
study of the Bible as living liter
ature as well as a book of religious
instruction, the Sunday School les
son for next Sunday concerns it
self with a biography of Abraham,
the father of a race and, to a great
extent, of a religion.
While the scripture lesson itself
gives only a' portion of the life
of this great and good man, the
background material gives vir
tually a complete picture of the
man of Ur. Abraham is most often
pictured as an aloof, almost ascetic
person; but a close study of the
Bible reveals him as a human,
down to earth character.
have rest periods. In Mrs. Page’s
her stepdaughter, Alice, was as
tonishing the natives all over the
♦country. Last Sunday an elderly
lady remarked to me “It was Al
ice Roosevelt who started the fad
for women to smoke.” It has long
ceased to be a fad, but I recalled
the sizzling editorials written be
fore we became accustomed, if not
reconciled, to seeing—and smelling
—women smokers.
Mrs. Roosevelt was among the
last survivors of her era, and it is
probable that no president’s wife
ever saw more changes than did
she.
Last week Principal Fred Smith
of Wakelon’s faculty gave me a
copy of the Handbook issued by
the State Superintendent of Pub
lic Instruction, and printed last
year. I had not seen a copy of this
for years, and I am finding enter
tainment and information in read
ing it as time permits.
On page 123 of the handbook is
a schedule for pupils in the first
grade. It was amazing to find they
are supposed to stay at school
from 8:40 or 9:00 till 3:15 or 3:30;
and Dr. Miller tells us that schools
not complying with this regulation
wilL next year lose their accredited
rating. So, if your six-year-old
stays longer than you feel he
should, don’t blame the teachers.
They can’t be held responsible.
Os course the little ones get tired
in the six required hours, and they
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Sunday School Lesson
Like the rest of us, he had his"
failings. He was steeped in super
stition, but v,as freed from the
belief that he must offer his first
born in sacrifice. He was modern
enough to be possessed then, of an
open mind—one of the principal
attributes of today's true Christian.
Again like most of us, Abraham
was essentially a physical coward;
in any event, he twice denied that
he was married to his wife because
he feared for his life. In each case
God rescued him from his folly,
and Abraham—this time like few
of us—profitted from his errors.
Abraham was compassionate. He
was inclined to hedge. He pleaded
Friday, October 8, 1948
first grade at Wakelon the child
ren have brought blankets, rugs or
quilts and make pallets for lying
down to rest—and some go to
sleep. This is more comfortable
than sitting with head bowed on
arms at desks; but Mr. Smith
thinks they might have folding
cots that would be a big improve
ment over pallets. Just canvas
stretched on folding frames that
could be made in the school work
shop would be adequate and in
expensive. The cots would keep
the children above the floor, which
is worth considering when really
cold weather comes.
When your child, your grand
child, or a neighbor’s youngster
comes hurrying to you with a re
quest that you join the Parent-
Teacher Association—he will call
it PTA—don’t refuse him, if you
can possibly spare the fifty cents
required for joining. It means so
much to be able to take in a list •
of names, to be praised by the
teacher, and, perhaps to win the
prize offered annually for the
room that secures the largest num
ber of members.
The fifty cents will be put to
good use and careful accounting
will show where all the money
goes. Should it happen that no
child asks you to join, volunteer.
You can belong without attending
a single meeting; but you’ll not
enjoy your membership as you
will if you go.
for the Lord to spare Sodom and
Gomorrah even though he person
ally knew the towns to be deserv
ing of the punishment of the Al
mighty. How like many of today’s
Christians who hesitate to invoke
the full punishment for any crime
upon the miscreants!
All in all, Abraham shows us
that there is hope for salvation
for the average man. He was not
perfect, and he was not the great
est sinner of his time; he was about
average, and the Lord loved him.
So may we consider that the Lord
loves all of us, if, like Abraham,
we make conscious efforts to fol
low the teachings of God’s word.