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WILLIAMS TON, NORTH CAROLINA
W. C. MANNING
Editor ? 1908-1938
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Tuesday, November 25, 1941.
Mutt Agriculture Bear the Burden?
The Industrial News Review, owned, edited
and published by E. Hofer and Sons, Portland,
Oregon, and apparently subsidized by Big Bus
iness, says that price increases of farm products
constitute one of today's serious inflationary
problems.
Most of the economists say that farm prices
are still below parity, but the industrial lords
come out with the declaration that rising farm
prices are going to wreck the country. Agricul
ture has been bogged down all these years. Must
it forever continue to operate at a loss that our
American economy might be maintained? It is
a dastardly system that would permit one
group to enjoy prosperity while the other group
is forced to play the role of slaves.
The Industrial News Review, finding an out
let for its too-often damnable voice in the col
umn of a lazy newspaper editor, has harped
about many things during the past, but never
has it" had anything to say about those tragic
periods when Big Business held the reins and
drove the people to starvation and many to
suicide. The wolfy Review has expertly played
agriculture against labor and vice versa, over
looking the cunning and sneaking practices of
the parasites, the dead-beats, the robbers who
have waxed fat off the sufferings of those who
toil. If the Review would enlighten a confused
people, then let it publish the fat profits ac
cruing to its clients.
j Eii wriwmj' /t*tr
The economy axe is being raised in Wash
ington preparatory to a swift strike against un
necessary spending. The move is a dangerous
one in that there are those who would strike
out every relief agency whether it be worth
while, good or bad, necessary or unnecessary.
The move is also dangerous because classes are
likely to be arrayed one against the other with
the farmer demanding that the axe blow be
directed against non-agriculture, or labor de
manding that the blow be dealt against profits,
or profits demanding that the blow be direct
ed against wages offered workers on the relief
program.
This is no time to kill the WPA, the NY A, the
FSA, or any of the other agencies conceived and
advanced in the name of needy humanity. It
is time, however, to strike out needless spend
ing. It is time to wipe out the human parasites
that have sucked the taxpayers' money and
brought condemnation down upon agencies
that otherwise would have been accepted with
out question by all true Americans. Throw out
those who have maneuvered plans, and projects
to perpetuate themselves in high-paying jobs.
The business of employing more highly-paid
supervisors than there are common workers
should be choked to a certain death, and the
politicians who hand-picked the high-salaried
group should realize now that some action
should be taken to remedy a rotten situation.
We have spent many dollars in the name of re
lief and haven't gotten much return. The re
turn from a tax dollar under ordinary circum
stances is greater than the return from an in
dividual's dollar, but not so with the money that
has been spilled through the loose fingers of a
top-heavy relief system, meaning most of the
alphabetical agencies. No figures are available,
but go to your relief projects and you will find
that the taxpayer is getting only a small per
centage value for his tax dollar. The loose sys
tem is to be condemned and not the agency it
self.
The casual observer sees too everlastingly
many supervisors, foremans. The system, in
many instances, is bogged down in worthless
red tape, and the flow of reports is endless. No
wonder there is a paper shortage, and no won
der that some of the agencies are facing certain
death as a result of their disgusting records.
Possibly the educational system should be
supplemented in this and other states, but when
an agency comes along and spends on youth
education nearly half as much as is being spent
on the State-supported schools in North Caro
lina, it would appear about time to call a halt.
For instance over in Greenville they recently
opened what they call a resident center of the
National Youth Administration. The center con
sists of fourteen buildings including such units
as an officers' lodge, administration building,
infirmary, shops and dormitories A release, de
scribing the center, says in part, "An organiz
ed recreational program has been recognized
as an imperative need for youths enrolled in the
center. A qualified recreational leader has been
employed . . The center pays the student $30
a month and furnishes him medical and dental
services.
It is all right to educate the youth of our land,
but it appears that the common taxpayer is be
ing called upon to train young men for indus
try. There was a time when industry and the
trades had their own apprentices. They work
ed out a plan with the trainee, and while there
were those cases of sweat shop practices, the
plan succeeded fairly well with the trainee
showing a genuine intei'est in his work. Ap
prentices are needed now, if reports are to be
accepted at their face value, but instead of the
young man entering a trade as an apprentice
he has to be paid $30 a month by the taxpayer
to prepare himself in a half-baked way for em
ployment.
There are the vocational departments in most
of the schools, but somehow or other they
would not furnish high-salaried positions for
the dear friends of the politicians New and
costly systems had to be established, and un
til our economy is converted lock, stock and
barrel into a socialistic one, 90 per cent of those
entering the centers have no business there.
And when the country jjets its 1941 tax hill it
is going to call for an accounting And it is go
ing to learn that some of the self-perpetuating
agencies are-demanding mere than John Lewis
is demanding.
'Get Thin Over H ith"
Christian Scienca Monitor.
The choice before Americans becomes clear
er day by day. They have decided that no firm
peace is possible until Hitlerism is destroyed.
Morally and industrially they have enlisted to
help destroy it. The big' remaining question is,
Fast or slow? William Knudsen put it to Amer
icans plainly at the Fight for Freedom rally in
New York when he said that it is a choice of
continuing at the present rate of defense pro
duction on the chance that years from now "we
finally will so outrank the Nazis that they will
not be able to go on any longer" or of piling on
"every ounce of steam to get this thing over
with."
The Director General of the OPM realizes
better perhaps than anyone except the men
in the front line who are waiting for weapons
or fighting with Inferior ones, how much of
a start the Nazis had and how slowly their
opponents are catching up. As Mr. Knudsen
said, today wars 'are won in the shop." After
all the talk and all the appropriations?even
after all the work on defense?the Nazis and
their slaves and satellites are-stilh-winftmg 4his
one, winning it in the shop.
The Germans geared their, economy to war
several years ago. Some statistics show that if
present increases are sustained American and
British war production will match Axis out
put in another year. John D. Biggers, United
States Lend.Lease Director in London, said
the other day that by 1940 the democracies
would go ahead in production. And every week
the Russians are losing great quantities of war
materials and the means of production?large
ly because they lack planes, tanks, guns equal
to the Nazis.
Mechanized war should be "right down Am
erica's alley," as Mr. Biggers said. The Unit
ed States potentially has more industrial pow
er than all of Europe. Once it really becomes
serious about making the machines to stop the
Nazis, the world will see something new in
production. But so far America has been only
half-hearted. It has produced pleasure cars
more than ever before in its history rather
than tanks in any quantity. It is still on a 40
hour week, while the Germans work 60 to 80
and the British nearly as much. America is de
voting only about 20 per cent of national income
to the war effort, while in Germany and Brit
ain the figure is from 50 to 60 per cent. Ameri
can military production is still less than Brit
ain's.
Whether Americans wish to stay out or go
in, most of them today realize that the best
hope of peace is in destroying Hitlerism. Work
will doHjat. Work will win. Whether victory
will come scion or late depends vitally on whe
ther America really, goes to work.
Only Uncle Sam Sleerl Worry
Labor.
The Standard Oil Company of New Jersey
does not like the Mexican government's pro
posal for a settlement of the long-standing con
troversy over the expropriated oil lands. Mex
ico wishes to retain the lands it seized, but it
is willing to compensate the owners on what it
regards as a "reasonable basis" and suggests it
has $9,000,000 on hand for a first payment.
Our State Department is acting as a sort of
go-between, and our Treasury Department is
expected to put up the money, in the form of a
loan to Mexico.
The oil men feel if they continue to demand
better terms, our State Department is likely to
urge Mexico to make more concessions, and if
Mexico is not putting up its own cash, but just
borrowing the money from its friend, it is like
ly to yield.
About {he only one who has any reason to
worry is our old friend, Uncle Sam. Will he
get his money back, and when?
Stockpiles of Food for Peace
The Cnited Stales figures that
stockpiles of defense food will
"exert the maximum influence
at the peace conference table"
when Europe ends her present
struggle That's win the (iov
eminent has asked farmers of
North Carolina and Other states
to help produce these slock piles
of food, says Dr. I. O. Schaub,
director of the N. C. State Col
lege Kxtension Service. The up
1><-r picture shows barrels of
dried inilk. just as Rood a year
from now as today. The picture
above shows a warehouse fill
ed with Iiurc drums of cheese,
even better with aging.
Mutual Admiration
1 i l(lli( TS Urged To
Protect Forests,
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^With the main hunting season now
undi i way, forest wardens are urg
ing all hunters to exercise every care
against fires-. The following appeal
was released this week by County
Warden Marvin Leggett:
The woods are extremely dry, due
I to the extended drought. At the pres
ent, there is a deficiency in rainfall
of several inches for the year.
Campers, hunters, loggers, wood
cutters and all other persons enter
ing the woods are requested to be
careful with fire.
Oppossum and raccoon hunters are
especially asked to cooperate by not
building any fire in the woods as
even a small file is exceedingly diffi
cult to put out. Wlnle the woods are
so dry and fire will burn down to
pure min- raj soil, which is from two
inches to as much as one or more feet
plm
Our forests have a tremendous
property value at this time when so
much vyood, lumber and other forest
products are needed for national de
fense.
Forest fires destroy the present
and future crop of trees arid are
harmful to game.
Be sure that your match, cigarette
' ? t pipe a Ik s are entirely out before
| you drop them. Do not make any fire
rTTi tin* woods, unless absolutely nee
i : aiy and clear away all combusti
ble material for a space of ten feet
condit ions
So please think of all this while
Miss Fur Industry admires her re
flection after she had been crowned,
as one of the hlfchspoU of the dem
it #1
onstration put jjpi in New York by
the fur industry to boost the sale of
U. S. defense bonds. Her Majesty
is Mary Ellen McNulty
Fvt. Sam Nelson, stationed TIT
'amp Lee, visited In n during the
ipjidays
Parking
K?TO?;iiiziii?i llic \ a I lie ol reserving
possible parking spaee for
Wiliiamston Visitors
We. the nii<lt'l>i(iii)-<l, lit-rcliv ?gr<'?'.
ill nrrordnnrr with the winlirM of the local
(lliamher of Commerce,
Agreement!
To lea\e nor car- al home or park tliem in the
hark lot-. or on little-iiHeil ntreetn, ami a?k our em
ployee* to ilo the Nime during the period
:?_ ending January 1, 1942
Moore (jrorrry Go.
\\ illiamslon llilw. (!?.
Martin Supply '(i?.
J. G. I^K^elt
G. It. Harbour
Grab-Ml Soda Shop
Hoauoke Ghevrolet (io.
MeTTIees QikIi Groeery
liable Stores
Wooluril Furniture Go.
[Voder's Store
Woolard Hardware Go.
Durdfii'* Dept. Store
I.. Ii. Kndi-ill
Ward's Market
Mar|(iilh It row.
K. ami W. Groeery
I'eele's Jewelers
Soda Shop
M illard's Shoe Shop
Sinelair Service Station
B. S. Goiirlney
I.iiuranty Hank
Hrancli Hank
llclk-Tylrr Co.
Davis Pharniucy
Clark's Pharmacy
People's Drug Slore
Western Auto Store
V. K. P. Co.
UraePn
Pittman's
Ann's Variety Store
Harrison & Carstarphen
Williamslon Motor Co.
Farmer* Supply Co.
Texaco Service Station
Centrul Service Station
J. K. Pope
FohiIcii anil Simpson
Feonomy Auto Store
l.intlsley Ice Co.
Enterprise Pub. Co.
Williamslon Cafe
Central Cafe
Living Costs Rising
Faster Than Salary
More and more the signs indicate
that the rising o< t of living, along
with more taxes, will more than off
set the income gains produced by the
defense program Living costs, with
clothing prices showing the most
marked advance, rose by 1.2 per cent
in October compared with an aver
age monthly increase of 0.9 per cent
in other months since last March.
The excise taxes accounted for
part of that . In September the
national income reached a rate
cquiv&.lcttt to $92 billion a year
highest in history and" $10 billion
more than 1940 showed -but on the
average this gain in ''gross" income
will be no more than enough
sibly not enough') to result in a gain
in "net" or "real" income Nev
ertheless retail -trade -rotitmut*^ irr
be lively in aU lun s where goods are
available
you are in the woods and don't be
responsible for any of this valuable
property going up in smoke
We have much to he thankful for
in our forest and game, so be careful
with fire ami piesjuye these natur
al?resources?Please?report-?ton
fies to your nearest fore.d jnv w ;ir
dett; ?' :
Brill Fertilizer Mixture
For Toharro Seed Bed
Two hundred pounds of a 4-8-3
mixture for each 100 square yards
of bed space has proven most satis
factory for tobacco seed beds, says
L. T. Weeks, extension tobacco spec
ialist. That means, two pounds of
4-8-3 per square yard. Tlie potash
in the plant bed fertilizer should be
derived from sulphate of^potash
magnesia
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