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1 MAytE I AM OVER DOING IT, MOM, BVTCONimunM i vvnvwv*^*^ WH.LHELPUSMJET our 1943 GOALS. Farm Family Big Asset To Nation And Civilization War Effort Impeded When Small Farms Cease Production (The following article appearing as an editorial in The Winston Salem Journal last week discusses a subject so vital to the people of Macon County that w.e arc printing ?t for the benefit of our readers. The Farm Security Administration can show figures to these to prove the value in human assets that this goverment agency has built in this county. (Editor). A few days ago we commented on 'hf remarkable record made by FSA farm families in Yadkin coun ty. Now new proof of the wisdom | of the Federal Ciovernment's policy of aiding the small fanner through the Farm S^ecurity Administration oomes from Surry Cou,nty. According to statistics compiled by Connie B. Gay, of Lexington, area representative of the FSA in 24 counties in this section of th,e State,, the average farm family in Surry has .69 cows, .02 sows, 11.9 laying hens and 350 quarts of can ned food each year. But t'he aver age F'SA family in thajt county lias 2.45 cows, .14 sows, 50.1 laying hens, and 504 quarts of canned food (each. year. That the small farmers on the FSA rolls are capable of produc ing more foods is shown by the following figufes on the families being aided by the Farm Security Administration in Surry: 1941 production per family ? 818 gallons of milk, 336 quarts canned food, 527 pounds of pork, 1.5 cows (average), and 112 dozen eggs. 1 942 production of milk,' 504 puarts of canned food, 645 pounds of pork, 50 laying hens, 2.5 cows (average), and 128 dozen eggs. New proof also is . found in Surry that teneat purchase borrowers of the FSA pay th,eir debts. The fig ures reveail that while in 1942 these farm families had land payments due the government averaging $184.21, they t Hey actually paid on their land an average of $485.02 per family last year. In the light of this record in one of our own fine counties, it is not at all difficult to believe the state ment of t<he head of one of the large agricultural organizations of the country, who says : "The reactionaries who hide be hind the name of 'farm bloc' to impede the war effort, have kept qp a steady running fire on the Farm Security Administration pro gram of aid to small farm opera tors who seriously wanted to help win the war. Yet in 1942, the 450, 000 t Tiers who received loans from toe FSA, themselves only 7^ per cent of all farmers, ac counted for more than a third of the total national increase in milk production. Issuance of this fact was suppressed for weeks; it indi cates only bM clearly that another million cr more of the same kind of farmers should receive the same ?art of aid." There are those in this country who insist that the family farm is no longer ^economically practicable and should give way to great cor porate farmiiig enterprises. Of course, those who believe that are ?naturally and logically opposed to the type of work the Farm Securi ty Administration is doing. For its one and only objective is to help the small farm family become self supporting. If there be those among our readers who doubt th,e wisdom of such an objective, we commend to them the careful reading of the following editorial which appeard in The New York Herald-Tribune: '*There is one animal bred on the farm so indispensable to the State, in jxeace and war, that pre sent threats to decimate or exterm inate its source ? sire, dam and flock ? should arouse consternation in human society. The creature w,e refer to is the healtl\y child, rais ed by the farmer at an expense of about $2,000, according to experts; th/e healthy children, male and fe male, most of tbem destined for urban and industrial Ij/e, many of them for the highest places there, raised on f<he family farm. Towns and cities, in the long run, do mot keep up their flock of young for many reasons; the most N. C. Weekly Roundup GASOLINE? "A" Book Coujion &o. 4 expires March 21. SUGAR? Coupon No. 12, 5 lbs. valid March 16. Must last through the end of May, or 11 weeks. COFFEE ? Stamp No. 25, 1 lb. expires March 21. TIKES ? Class A, first inspection deadline March 31. FUEL OIL ? Period 4 Coupons expire April 6 in zones C and. I). April 12 in zone B., April 17 in zone A. Period 5 coupons 'are now valid in all zones. BEEF PRICE VIOLATORS (,0 TO JAIL "The prison terms of up to seven months in jail with accomjianying fines ranging to $5,800 meted out to 13 individual violators of OPA price ceilings on be^f at the whole sale level today is only the start of our broadened campaign to wipe out the Black Market in meat i?n t'his country," price administrator Prentiss M. Brown said on March 9 in commenting on the sentences and fines handed out by federal Judge Goddard in Nnited States District Court in New Y^rkiCity. SEEDS NOT RATIONED Peas, beajns and lentils when bought exclusively for us,e as seed are exempt from the processed foods rationing program and do not require the surrender of either point stamps or ration certidfrcat.es, according to OPA. CERTIFICATES TO FARMERS Farm families who have enlisted in the huge 1<M3 food production program will be awarded a certifi catt of farm war service, signed by Secretary of Agriculture Claude R. Wickard, in recognition of their war work. It will be presented by county USiDA boards as soon as possible after the completion of the 1943 farm mobilization drive. FARM INCOME A preliminary review of the date available on farm income and ex penditures during 1942 indicates that tht net return to farm opera obvious one being that breeding and rearing a man-sized family there is an expensive job; virtually all on the debit side.A farm family, oh thx other had, is an economic unit to which evqn a child of six, without injury to 'health and often witih moral benefit, can contribute its small, light chore. Every one in the farm family over the age of six contributes to its support. Its children all but pay th*ir way to manhood. Certainly they are cheap at the prict of $2,000 each. "The history of the rise and fall of great civilizations in the Occident presents a fairly neat pattern of a Trsing standard of living and falling birth rate, with the decline of population in towns and cities made up for a. time from the surplus of the farm fam ily; until at last, the family farm is swallowed up in the latifundia, the bonanza, the serf farm of great dimensions; where as in the cities, the child is no longer an asset, unless bred for outright sla very on the lad. "When the farm family disap pears there is no longer a rural surplus of ohildren bred for the city and the citystate. Population declines gradually, then precipitat ely, then in geometrical retrogres sion. The enormous plant and or cganization that civilization has constructed can no longer be man ned nor supported by taoces, how ever great, because the chief do mestic source of raw recruits is gone; thene are too Tew to pay for the support of the overgrown State. "The present debate m high places whether the family farm is 'economic'; whether the subsistence farm should not be wiped out, much concerned with efficiency, as it is, leaves out of account the most important breeding program on all fairms; the breeding and rearing of human livestock, with out which the city and the State perish. Good-bye, the family farm? Then good-bye civilisation." ors for their labor, capital invest ment, and management, and for ^ther unpaid family labor, was ^bout 10,200 million dollars i?n 1W2. In 1941 the net return to farmers was estimated at 0,748 million dol lars. The previous record net in :pme, in 1919, .amounted to 8,799 million dollars. Total cash income from farm marketings and govern ment payments during 1?42 amount ed to 16,138 million dollars. *In/ 1<M1 cash income from marketings and government payments toualed 11,754 million dollars. STOCKING PRICES REDUCED Reductions of from 5 to 40 cents per j*air for rayon stockings have been announced by the OPA. New j prices, which will be put into effect by mid-April at .all siaJ/es levels, will represent price cuts averaging 15 per cent. Stockings made to the standards of OPA, as set for grade "A" hosiery, -will contain features de signed to lengthen the life and improve the service of the hosiery such as reinforcements in the foot aind welt top and a minimum num ber of rows of stitches in the leg to prevent "skimpy" construction. PRODUCTION OF WAR MATERIAL Jan. production of certain typ.es of war material ? 70,000 aircraft bombs of 1,000- pound size or larg er ? enough to bomb tjie enemy for thirty days at Hie rate of 2,300 bomvs a day? approximately 5,000 airplanes, more than 65 per ctnt of them of th,e combat type ? equipment for ground and air forc es ? 3 1-2 times the rate of January 1^W2 ? 58,000 carbines, 80,000 garaind rifles ? 27, (X) 0 .50 calibre aircraft machine guns ? 7,COO 20 mm. air craft cannon? and 68,000 sub-mach ine guns. GAS FOR SCHOOL BUS If school authorities do not pro mptly return applications for re vised certificates of war necessity, there may be insufficient gasMine for school bus operations in the second quarter of 1943, the office of Defense Transportation warns. The minimum necessary mileage for each school bus will be determ ined o?n the basis of information contained in. 'these applications. .GARDENING MATERIALS SUFFICIENT Supplies of essential garden tools, seed, and insecticides are reported to be sufficient to meet the needs of the expanded Victory Garden program, but there ar,e none to waste, the USDA has announced. Wasting seeds, tools, fertilizer, or insecticides is ntver desirable and in wartime is to be condemned. BANKERS HELP ON LOANS LociaJ bankers will be asked to sit with county USDA war boards and other credit agencies of the department in considering applioa-* tinns for rtgk*nal agricultural credit corporation loans to make more certain that the loan program will not be competitive with locaJ agen cies extending credit to the farm er. FARMERS PAY LOANS More than 100,000 farmer-borrow ers from the 12 federal land banks and land bank commissioner re juaid their loam in full in 1W2. "Farmers are paying off their long term debts from high farm in i come," stated A. G. Black, gover 1 nor of farm credit administration. 'The demand for new farm mort gage loans was about 22 per centl less in the last six months of 1 <H2 I than in the same period of l^Ml with 33,000 fewer farm mortgages recorded by all lenders in the U.S. in the last half of 1<M2." "I say. waiter, is this peach or apple" pie ? "Cam't you tell by the taste?" "No." J "Then what difference does it make ?" I AT FIRST SIGN OF A ^3 C0666 TABLETS. SALVE. NOSE DROPS Seed Money Thert's Only one thing more foolish than killing the (OOM that lays the golden eggs. That's living up the money that has been put away to buy the seed for next year's crops. Although G-E turbines and lamps and refrigerators don't grow from any seed you can buy at a seed store, yet any manu facturer?no matter what he makes -has a seed problem just the same. For next year's models, and improved designs, and new products-all these cost money. Money for research, and engineering, and new tools, and advertising to tell the public where a product can be obtained, and how much it will cost. And the only place this money can come from ii out of past earnings, or borrowing on the promise of earnings in the future. In other words-from seed money. From the seed of research and engineering, planted in years past by General Electric, have come some pretty amazing crops. Incandescent lamps five times as efficient as Edison's, vacuum tubes that made radiobroadcasting possible, refriger ators for the home and electric machines for industry to make important Jobs easier. Right now the crops we're growing are all of the "Victory Garden" kind-weapons that are serving with our armed forces on land and sea and in the air. But we mustn't neglect the seed money for the future. We're looking forward to the continuance of the industrial system that will allow us to open up and cultivate other new and prom ising fields. So, tomorrow, look for important developments in television, fluorescent lighting, plastics, electronics. These will be familiar words in the post-war world. General Electric Company, Schenectady, N. Y. GENERAL 0 ELECTRIC MRS. OLIVER TRAINS FOR SIGNAL CORPS Mrs. Margaret. Tice Oliver, daughter of Mrs. John Tice, Rt. 3, has completed a course in radio at Sardis center, Charlotte, and has been, placed in the Army Sig nal Corps for furthur training at Fort Monmouth, N. J., where slve will take a six-months course. Dortt let MARCH be your car's Unlucky Month! SIW SAM: 'Hosts art rtd and violets b/ut And SPRING'S the tint / UKIS To sabotage CARS for you tod you And put you alt on BUGS!" \ SQUEAKY SQUIRE: 'y eh ...When it comes to cars in WAR These Americans are SPOILED , They FORGET ears can only last If property Crease* V OilEDI' Now is when a little care will help your car a lot! There was never a Spring when your car needed a thorough check-over more than it does this year. No matter hov> little you may run it, you can't afford to have parts near out or go bad. We're listing below some of the important things to do now? for your own and for Uncle Sam's sake , too. Let your Esso Dealer take care of them. He's a Gremlin chaser. r RADIATOR. Hare your Emo Dealer drain out anti-freeze, flush the radiator with clean water and a radiator cleaner, if necessary, then refill with water plua Tri Rad Rust Preventive. Remember rust causes deterioration even though you may be running your car a lot less tnia year, ' CBANKCAtl. Another Spring "must" is to drain out the Winter- worn oil, clean the crankcase with special flushing oil and refill with the proper sunyner grade of long wearing Essolube Motor Oil. * I TRANSMIT AlOft -RlfPRBINTIAL, These v aluable gears are hard to replace nowadays! Have your dealer drain oat the worn Winter oil* and replace them with the proper Summer grade of new, freah Eaao Lubricant*. CHASSIS* The chaaaia of your car haa taken a beating through the Winter, ao have your Eaao Dealer give it a Verified Eaao Lubrication ? the lubrication job that puta the right lubricant in the right place. RATTERY. Reduced driving due to gaaoiine rationing haa probably put your battery through a hard winter, w aure to have your Eaao Dealer check it and recharge H if necessary. TIRES. How far have your tire* gone aince you had tfaim gauged and awitched ao aa to extend their life aa f iraa poaaible? If it ia over 2,000 mile* have your Eaao Daalar check them with the Tire Tread Depth Gauge.. .an4 awitch them immediately, if neceaaary. Two tire-aaviag tip*: 1. Maintain 32 pound* preaaure at all time* (the sew war-time standard). 3. Nenr drive over 35 mile* per hoar. Let your E?to Dealer check over your whole car. Td may need a new light bulb, or m windshield wiper blade. Probably the finith of your ear , tor protec tion, needs a washing and then a good polishing job. See your Esso Dealer for whatever you nttd to keep your car in good running order. CARE SAVKS WIAR STANDARD OIL COMPANY of new jersbt
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