Guard Against A Post-War Slump A plan whereby farmers having Federal land bank loans may protect themselves against any post-war slump or crop failures by making payments into a "future payment" fund, which will draw the same rate of interest he is being charged on his indebtedness to the bank, is an nounced by Mr. W. G. Stancill, sec retary-treasurer of the Williamston National Farm Loan Association. Under the plan a land bank bor rower may now send funds to the bank to be held in a trust account for future installments, and this ac count will be credited with com pound interest at the same rate which the member-borrower is pay ing on his land bank loan. "The Federal land bank and the national farm loan association feel that this 'future payment' fund of fers a number of advantages to the borrowers," said Mr. Stancill. "The borrower who has future payment runds in the land bank has a back log of security upon which he can draw In time of need to keep his ob ligation in good standing and carry him through a lean period. He is in sured against hard times?at no cost to him for the insurance. "This new plan permits a land bank borrower to make payments for future application on Federal land bank loan, sale contract or purchase money mortgage running to the land bank in any amount less than the unpaid balance of his obligation." Mr. Stancill said that many far mers were now in a position to for tify themselves - gage worries and in taking advan tage of the future payment fund plan would be helping themselves and al so would be serving their country be cause while the investment is earn ing a good rate of interest, this mon ey would at the same time be doing service for national defense through reinvestment by the land bank Improving from Illness Little Miss Nancy Hix, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. David Hi*, is improv ing from an attack of pneumonia at her parents' home on Grace Street Visit Here Monday Mr. and Mrs. W B. Shoe, of Greenville, visited their daughter, Mrs. W. H. Williams, Jr., and Mr. Williams, here Monday night. MEN'S SUITS Best For Less! Our Suits are finely tail ored? Wear like iron? Made from best quality worsteds. Smartest new colors and all sizes. Our suits are smart and they are reasonable too. We can fit you and for less money. \ See Us First! POTMAN'S WILLIAMSTON j Santa Is Likely To Offer Defense Bond Instead of Gadgets Defrtise Effort Beginning To Jolt Many in Private Business The defense effort is beginning to jolt us. To fight for democracy and against Hitlerism, we have turned our factories into arsenals?conscious that we are about to deprive our selves of some of our most-prized comforts. We are diverting our iron and copper and aluminum to the making of guns and tanks and planes and ships to be used in the defense of democracy. During the past summer our em ployment and production, stimulated by defense spending, were at peace time highs,"exceeding even the peak of 1929's boom. Alrady the funds allocated for de fense purposes have mounted to more than $60,000,000,000. This is more than all the wages and salaries paid in the United States during 1929. when wage and salary pay ments broke all records. It is more than the entire national income in any of the five depression years. The impact of this tremendous program will mean more work, more -pay-, for Americans. Gradually, however, the impacts I of defense production and spending, and the effects of conservation of materials imperatively needed for national defense, are beginning to hit some of us. In the few months be fore Christmas, everyone will feel it more and more. Santa Claus will eb on hand, but he'll have to deal out defense bonds instead of gadgets. A new tax law, adding more than three billion dollars annually to the government's revenue, will take a much larger proportion of everyone's earnings, starting back to last Jan uary. The government, through its con trol over credit, h?s tightened up re strictions on installment-play buy ing. making it harder to buy luxur ies and semi-luxuries, and easier to invest money in government bonds ?part of a conscious effort to re duce excessive spending and its in flationary effects on prices. You now need one-third cash as down pay ment to buy a car. Use of all silk for stockings and other civilian uses was cut off when the freezing of Japanese raw silk im ports made it necessary to save our entire.supply for powder-bags and parachutes. Some panicky women stormed the stores, but most of us are helping by depending upon Am erican mills to provide nylon and rayon stockings when the need comes. Cotton stockings may become fashionable. A shortage in transportation facili ties, following transfer of tankers to Britain, resulted in an Atlantic Coast curfew in filling stations and later in a rationing of gasoline supplies by wholesale distributors Atlantic sea board filling stations close at 7 p , and thousands of night-shift workers in them are either looking for defense jobs, or working day time. The automobile factories, after a year which established an all time record production, have been told they must reduce their passenger car production by 50 per cent. More over, they cannot be assured of the steel and other raw materials even for that. And although the first few 1942 models off the assembly line this month and next will have the usual chromium trim and gadgets, when these supplies are used up there won't be any more. Also looking for defense jobs are the salesmen who have made their living from passenger cars, electric appliances, refrigerators, washing machines, and other non-defense ma chines which are comfortable and useful but not now us essential as planes and guns and tanks and ships. The factories which have been producing this rich stream of com forts are looking for defense con tracts. The men aiui women who have worked in .the factories are prepar ing for defense jobs too. Some of the men arc in the armed services; some are already in training for specific defense work in their localities; nearly all of them are facing a dras tically-changed scheme of things. All over the country, these and othei^hange^ir^iagpening^^ire A Scout Is Reverent ? BrOH n and Bija/ow ^MAINTAINING that no boy can become the beat kind of citizen without *** recognizing his obligation to God, the Boy Scouta of America, in this new Norman Rockwell painting, symbolizes the spirit and meaning of its Twelfth Scout Law: "A Scout is reverent. He is reverent toward God. He it faithful in his religious duties and respects the convictions of others in matters of custom and religion." ibout to happen, to all of us in vary ng degrees. In some communities the impact vill be more severe than in others, n some localities where there are iefense contracts, displacement of vorkers will be minor. In others, un ess defense contracts are obtained luickly, the industrial workers in ion-defense plants and the trades nen and storekeepers who depend jpon them, will suffer. The "one-in iustry" communities, particularly hose which produce civilian goods ising steel, copper, aluminum, and ron as raw materials, are especially tlarmed. There have been estimates that as nany as 2,000,000 industrial workers nay be affected in one-defense in iustries whose materials are need ed for the mounting national defense program. On the other hand, the U. S. Labor Department in mid-August reported hat the national defense appropria- j ions and contracts authorized to that i ime would require the use of 19,-1 >00,000 man-years of labor?and at I hat time, only about 4.000,000 men ' ind women were directly employed n privately owned and government Iefense plants. Conservative estimates are that 5,000,000 to 3,000,000 more workers nust be added to the working force >f the defense plants within a year. The problem faced by government, j ndustry and labor is how the non- j iefense worker may be re-trained ' ind re-directed into the defense ef- t ort, to prevent us from having a I HEALTHY Nearly fifty per cent of the poung men called for possible military service from this coun ty have been rejected on account of physical defects. While most of the defects were only of a minor nature and can be correct ed, some were quite serious. Those rejections were confined to the registrants in general. When the Selective Service Act was extended to those young men who became 21 by last July and who had served in the Civilian Conservation Corps not one out of the approximately 12 examined was found physically unfit for service. "They were in A-l physical condition," a draft board report said. Lonimuiuty. stricken with unemploy ment next to a community where a defense plant is seeking more skill ed and semi-skilled workers. The government has acted quickly through the Office of Production Management to meet these situations us they have arisen, in aluminum goods, silk-weaving. automobile production, and other "priority un ?mployment" situations. o Some of these efforts and exper iences. which provide patterns for meeting these complicated problems us they occur in other localities, will be outlined in later articles in this ?lies. Attention Farmers WE CAM USE YOI'K Serap Tobacco At TOP PMCFS NOW W. 1. Skinner & Co. WILLIAMSTON, N. C. Barnum and Bailey Circus In Rocky Mount Wednesday * With Mr. and Mr?. Gargantua the Great, the world's most publicized gorilla couple, as its super-feature, the Ringling Bros, and Barnum and Bailey Circus will exhibit in Rocky Mount on Wednesday. October 29th, bringing to that city 1,600 people, 50 elephants, 1009 menagerie animals and hundreds of horses. The per formances will start at 2:15 and 8:15 p. m., with the doors open at 1 and 7 p. nr., admitting the public to the radically re-styled menagerie, gor illa tent, horse fair and big top?all re-designed by Norman Bel Geddes, of New York World's Fair Futurama fame. Among the outstanding features are: the new fairyland fantasy, "Old King Cole and Mother Goose," de signed and costumed by Bel Geddes, with ensembles staged by the fam ous Albertina Rasch, Hollywood and New York inusicul show dance di rector, Alfred Court's three mixed groups of performing wild animals of almost every known specie, ap pearing simultaneously in three steel arenas; the new Birdland aer ial ballet, starring Elly Ardelty and costumed by Max Weldy of Paris; the many aerial and novelty acroba tic troupes from South America, headed by the tree famous Flying Lady Relieved At Conditions in Army * A middle-aged lady from Hock Hill, S. C., who recently visited the base camp of the 00th Inf. Regt., in the First Army Maneuvers, touched the heart of an officer to whom she spoke as she was leaving the camp. "My boy left for the Army last month," she said with a catch in her throat. "I have been crying myself to sleep very nearly every night since. Today was the first chance I have had to see what the Army is really like and you can't know how reliev ed I am. I talked to your General, and a kinder man I have never met. "I looked at tents just like the one my boy is sleeping in, and they were neat and clean and comfortable. I tasted the food and it was good. And just now I found a boy who looked like my Joe 1 took him off to the side. " 'Tell me. son.' I said. 'Do you like the Army?' " 'Lady.' lie replied, 'it's swell.' "God bless you. sir. for making an old lady happy." Diego-Fernandez acts; the new high school and liberty horse offerings, headed by Viscomte Roberto Vascon cellos, the famous Riding Cristianis; the great Truzzi. juggler; the three Flying Concello troupes, with An toinette. In all. 800 performers Attends State Fair Miss Mattie Lou Keel attended the State fair in Raleigh yesterday. Confined To His Hone Mr. Paul Jones is confined to his home in the Tar Heel apartments by illness. Ptj. Of*. 1.80 A Thousand Thanks We ttinccrely lliank our patron* for tin- fine iiatronagr ueeorded iih lliit year. Every pound sold tvith ux it nckiiowlnliii'ii and genuinely appreciated We Kept The Faith and Fulfilled Our Promise True to Our Promise at the Hegirmiufz, oi the Season, We Cave You the Highest Market in the State Arrui'iliiifc lo tIk- U. S. Government report, KoherHonville made the liif(lieMt average in the New Itri^hf Itell through Septemher. Our Official Average $31.18 Our Nearest Competitor Only Averaged $29.85 The Average fur the Men Height Hell Was 828.39 If The Lord Is Willing, We'll In- bark aieain tirxl year operation nilli llir name personnel and the same warehouses. SELL THE REST OE YOUR CROP ON THE HIGHEST MARKET IN THE STATE Red Front & Central WAREHOUSES ROBERSONVII