THURSDAY, JANUARY 5,1939
THE FRANKLIN PRESS AND THE HIGHLANDS MAC0N1AN
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BIG fROBLEM
More Than Needed To Till
Soil, Government
Report Mates
$hat"4"tbvhe "done about some
J 7,000,UU0 American country youths
? u.'hn' acmrAimr tn the Work's Pro
gress administration, face a disas
trous economic future?
In a survey just completed by
the Wi'A it became known thatop
oortunities for voiine men in rural
areas fo acquire their own prop
erty and economic independence
nave materially decreased in recent
years because of the growing "sur
plus" of rural youth.
Few Farm Boy Trained
The National Youth administra
tion and the Civilian Conservation
Corps, in spite of their good work,
liave included among their numbers
a small fraction of the needy farm
youths. The main reason for this is
due to insufficient funds, on the
part of the agencies, yet the prob
lem remains. Unless business can
absorb several million unskilled
workers, then it remains for the
federal government to do something
about it. That conclusion is partial
ly reached by the conductors of
this survey.
Women' Plight Serious ,)
Lacking good jobs, many youpg
people not needed at home to 'help,
on the farm have been forced to
remain with their parents, often for
an extended period. The plight of
young wbmen who had to stays, in
their farm homes is even more seri
ous than that of the men, the re
port stated. It was found that girls,
left the farm earlier than boys.
The report pointed out that the
lack of adequate educational facili
ties has been a factor, along with
economic handicaps, in producing
the condition in which many rural
youths find themselves.
; "Areas with the largest prqjpor
r.f rhilHren have the lowest
incomes and the poorest schools it
stated. 'Rural youth attend school
less frequently than urban youths,
"rOTl OI reua.iuai.iv.
evictims of glaring in-
in education, vs rate
fiv out of every 1UU iarm
a ' If. A J
youths were still unaDie to rem
onH writ? Yet. where facilities are
available, a large proportion of all
rural youth attend school." ,
Want to Own Land
Despite the migration of youth to
the city, the study showed, the
numbers of young men' desiring
their own farms at the beginning
of the depression far exceeded the
number of good farms available.
This situation is attributed to an
increase in farm tenancy, the de
creased demand for farm laborers
mid the trends toward large-scale
nd absentee land ownership and
r : ...u
ri iiiuiii.aLiuu -
is "pressure" on the. land was
o have been especially neavy
couthern mountain regions
t-over region of the up-
Lakes and appears to
d markedly in the last
ause of a more rapid
rease in these areas
ier back-to-ine-iarm
leople who lost out in
,NYA and the CCC
m youth, there are
perative extension
liartment ot agri
Ire of Education
Uoyment. Numer-
mon-governmeniai
inning important
li the opportun
ff rural youth.
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Mill
Ind family .spent
iias holidays witn
L. Bryson.
"West. from
klWe. sncnt the
J.xorontc Dr. and
,West.
from Bryson City, spent Saturday
and Sundav with Mr. and Mrs. J.
M.i Morgan.
jewel ueriia,rt, trom uasuwra,
spent Thursday with relatives here.
iMiss'Mary Elmore, teacher at
Aquofle, spent the holidays with
her plrents, Mr. and Mrs. J. B.
Elmore. '
Mils Valley May West, from
RaleMi, spent the Christmas holi
Dalton, from Gastonia, .spent, the
Christmas holidays with their par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. J, H. Dalton,
. The Christmas pageant given by
the graded school here last Friday,
was very beautifully given. The
Christmas carols s,ung by the chil
dren were rendered well indeed.
The music program "was very good.
Will Elmore, from South Caro
lina, spent a few days , here with
his parents last week. ' ' .
Mr. and Mrs. A. J,. Franklin,
of Route 3, spent Christmas with
their daughter, Mrs. George Potts.
Ralph R. McLean, of Kaleign,
spent Christmas with his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. A. L. McLean.
Miss Vonnie Wes.t, one of the
first grade teachers in the Bryson
City schools, spent (the holidays
with her mother, Mrs. J. L. West,
Sr.
Miss Evelyne Mozeley, of Reids,-ville,-
is visiting her grandfather
and family, W. J. West, for a few
days.
Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Smith and
family, from Cullowhee, spent
Christmas day with relatives here.
Weaver DeHart, of Bryson City,
spent the holidays with relatives,
Mrs. Alice Rickman and family
H. H. West and family of Ashe
ville, spent part of the Christmas
holidays with relatives here.
Miss Bonnie Parrish, of Robbins
ville, is visiting her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Ed Parrish.
Dover Bryson, of Detroit, Mich.,
is here on a visit to relatives.
RETURNS FROM CHINA
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PROJECT
A land utilization project, em
bracing an area of more than 2S0,
000 acres in Caswell county, has
been undertaken by the .soil con
servation service as a' part of its
nation-wide submarginal land pro
gram. .
Methodist Episcopal Bishop Ar
thur J. Moore, returning from
Shanghai to his headquarters in San
Antonio, Texas, declared, that more
than 100 missions, hospitals and
schools have been destroyed in the
war between China and Japan. "A
century's work has been dissipat
ed," he said.
PLANT FRUIT TREES
In Durham county, 4-H
club
members who have .selected fruit
growing as their projects for 1939.
have planted 37 peach trees, 32
apple trees, 3 pears, 2 plums, and
50 raspberry plants. Others plan to
order trees to start Jiome orchards.
Forests Protected By
CCC Enrollees
The three major destroyers 6i
the nation's iores!t$" fire, insects,
and disease 'have encountered a
conquering army in the "shock
troops" ot the' CCC. Enrollees have
spent '4,000.000 man-days of labor
fighting forest fires during five
years of service. They have built
many thousands of miles of fire
breaks throughout the pine stands
of the southern states, and they
have proved of inestimable benefit
in holding fire losses to a first
rale minimum. .
- The war waged by the CCC
against the .silent tree killers, such
as disease, insects, and fungi, has
aided the country in keeping the
national forests in a healthy grow
ing condition. Although less dra
matic and spectacular than fire
fighting, the protection of the for
ests against these menaces is as
important as the protection against
fire and requires the sterling qual
ities of patience and hard work.
The improvement program of ihe
CCC has made an important con
tribution to " the forest wealth of
the country, especially in the South,
where large areas of land have
been acquired and added to the na
tional forests. These lands had been
heavily logged and subjected to
severe burning, and the CCC work
program is helping to restore them.
A dual, accomplishment can also
be recorded in that the CCC has
not t only, built forests, but it has
also built men.
A series of publications are be
ing prepared by the Government
Printing Office on CCC activities.
Two of these booklets, ( entitled
"Forests Protected by the CCC"
and "Forest Improvements by the
CCC," may be .secured free of
chirge by addreising a request , to
the Regional Forester, U. S. For
est Service, Southern Region, ; At
lanta," Ga.'
DOWN
Receipts from American farm
marketings in the first .11 months
of 1938 were estimated at $6,463,
000,000, or 13 per cent less than the
$7,440,000,000 reported for the same
period in 1937.
LIBERAL .
Liberal consumption of dairy
products is in pro.s.pcct for the
winter months, says John- Arey, of
State college, in quoting a report
of the U. S. bureau of agricultural
economics. 1
More than 2,000 baby chicks have
been started by 4-H club members
of Beaufort county for the purpose
of growing broilers for the early
spring market.
far the next
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