Proposed Auto Tax
Might Be Nullified
Washington ? The House Appro
praitions Committee threw a monkey
wrench today into the elaborate ma
chinery proposed by the Treasury
Department for collection of the
new $5 annual automobile use tax.
If the House permits the monkey
wrench to stay there, it will make
the auto tax inoperative.
The committee withheld the $4,
502,554 the Treasury said the Bur
eau of Internal Revenue required to
collect an estimated $160,000,000 in
taxes with the comment it was "not
satisfied with the manner and cost
of collection proposed ..."
"Under the method of collection
proposed the estimated cost per $100
of collection of the automobile use
tax is $6.40 as contrasted with an
actual cost in a previous fiscal year
of 89 cents per $100 of collection for
all types of revenue," the committee
pointed out.
The law taxing the nation's 32,
000,000 motor vehicles provided that
$2:09 taxes be collected Feb. 1, 1942,
for the five months of the 1942 fiscal
year and that the entire $5 tax be
collected July 1, 1942, for the fiscal
year of 1943. Penalties were provid
ed for non-payment.
The committee said the Treasury
request contemplated a total of 3,
460 employees?960 clerical and 2,
500 field deputies, whose duties
would be "to visit personally delin
quents who failed to respond after
the second notice that the tax was
due."
The House Sub-Appropriations
Committee previously had disap
proved the Treasury proposals arid
Secretary Morgenthau said later
that Congress should either provide
funds or repeal the law.
Representative Johnson, Democrat.
Oklahoma, a member of the Appro
priations Committee, already has in
troduced a repeal measure.
I'hotphale Improve? Yield
Of l.e?pedem In Jackton
Where he applied phosphate on his
lespedeza this past spring, Mitchell
Melton of Argura in Jackson Coun
ty reports a 50 per cent increase in
yield, says Assistant Farm Agent G.
R. Lackey.
Hou> the American Country Boy
Benefits from Army Training
flu Amrku country boy?that
?hhnit fallow from the farms and
eontributed not only his brawn to
Uncle Sam's armies, bat exem
plifies patriotism, initiative, and
intelligent discipline as well
Bach is the pst of authoritative
commentary on tha rank and die of
the army in every instanoe where
dtisen soldiers hare been called to
the nation's defense. Today the
parents of the young men lately
called into service are asking what
the army in turn does for the conn
try boy. Here is the answer:
"Ha gains a broadening experi
snes in adventure, friendship, sad
learning which only service in a
common caase can give."
The quotation is from an over
seas veteran of the World War who
served in a hard hitting outfit com
posed largely of youths classed
generally ae country boys. Ampli
fying his statement, he stressed the
young eoldier'a experience in ad
venture, friendship, snd lemming.
Boyhood adventures m rambles
with hie dog, e
plunge in the "old
Army with an inquiring mind and
a fund of practical experience,
declares the veteran of 1918. He
is a good student. He has learned
to work with his hands as well as
his brains. He is quick to grasp
the exceptional opportunities which
modern military service provides.
When he returns to tne farm he
finds that his skill in handling a
"jeep." a truck, or a tank for Uncle
Sam has fitted him expertly to care
for agricultural machinery. He
has learned the economy of trans
portation. He has been observing
of the practice of farmers in other
sections of the country. He sees
where improvements may be made.
He knows more of conservation.
Active service in our Army has
been America's greatest training
school for the professions, in
science, and in business. In every
period in the nation's history the
leaders in civil life have been
largely those who in their youth
answered their country's call to
defense, and first of these has been
the country boy.
swimmin' hole" and
exploration* in the
woods pave the way
for hie new duties
in camp and in the
field. Our Army af
fords new scenes
and still more heart
ening adventures.
He gains a strong
physique, good
health, and a clean
mind. He comes
home equipped for
his life work with
renewed energy and
a brighter outlook
upon the world.
In friendship he
broadens his horizon,
meets thousands of
young men like him
self from all parts
of the Union, and
forms enduring com
rmdeshipa Knowing
fellow Ameri
Ms
eaiw better he .is
himself a better
American.
The average cotm
Edgecombe County farm families
are practicing better orchard man
agement, st) as to produce more fruit
for the food-for-freedom campaign,
reports C. M Jackson, assistant farm
agent.
BRING YOUR
?IFT LIST TO
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MOUNT
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1.10P,NT
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Wins 'Unity' Award
First woman to receive the Maria
Moore Cabot Award for distin
guished service in the fteld of inter
American relations, Senhora Sylvia
Bettencourt delivers address in Low
Memorial Library, Columbia Uni
versity, New York. She is a colum
nist on the newspaper "Correio Da
Manha," published in Rio de Janeiro
by her husband, who also received
an award.
Nutrition Needs Are
Becoming Greater
As defense production mounts, the
need for higher nutrition standards
becomes greater if we are to have
the strength and health necessary
for the job, federal food experts say.
And as farm prices mount?as they
have?the need for more efficient
distribution becomes greater if we
ajre to be Able to buy enough of the
essential protective foods which give
that strength ? milk, eggs, fresh
fruits and vegetables.
?WIN THE LOW-PRICE FIELD !
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and aball far Said artillery "
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Other defense projects a
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THK SAME Fisher Body styl
ing that haa distinguished
highest-priced cars now comes
to you in the low-priced Olds
mobile B-44. The ssune sweep
ing lines, the same tapering
silhouette, the same over-all
grace of design are now
available for thrifty buyers in
the handsome 8eries "60"
Club Sedan. Your Oldsmobile
dealer will be proud to show
you this stand-out quality car.
It brings you the extra 'fire
power" of Oldsmobile's Bcono
Master Engine (either 100
H. P. Six or 110 H. P. Eight).
It brings you quick-starting,
dependable, cold-weather per
formance. It brings you superb
all-round economy. And it
offers Hydra-Matic ? the only
completely automatic drive 1
"TioPo-tot" apply on Pawn poymmntm
Monthly poymonto pro ovotlobln.
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BfTTU Built Thaw Ant
OiMMOBILI IN 44 YIabsI
HYDRA-MATIC DRIVE?
No clutch to press at any
time. No geari to ahift in
the four forward speeds.
Saves driving effort, saves
wear on the engine, saves
10 to IS per cent of your gas.
? Oytioaal at Estrs Cast
TOO CAN ALWAYS COONT ON OLDSMOBILB - ITS yuAJLITr-JtVILT TO J-1ST.
CHAS. B. JENKINS A Co., Ahookie, N. C.
CHAS. H. JENKINS * Co., Aaiaador, N. C.
CHAS. B. JENKINS A CO., Edenton, N. C.
CHAS. H. JENKINS A Co., Williamrfon, N.C.
Millions Will Again
Decorate Christmas
Tree For Youngster
The night before Christmas this
year will again see millions of Am
ericans revive the old custom of
trimming the tree.
Although this season Christmas
shoppers and seekers of holiday
cheer may feel the pinch of shortage
caused by priority rulings on var
ious raw materials and industries,
the supply of evergreen trees is fim
ple to fill the demand which annual
ly swells the volume of Christmas
tree business to upwards of $10,000,
000.
There is a possibility that the Ca
nadian shipments of approximately
two and a half million trees might be
curtailed because Canada's war ef
fort has necessitated the absorption
of more and more labor into defense
industries. Canadian trees, however,
have been sold exclusively in the
large eastern and mid ?'west cities,
whose markets can be adequately
filled by the New England and Great
Lakes region supply.
Almost every kind of evergreen
tree has been used as the symbol of
the Christmas spirit. In the North
eastern and Lake States, for in
stance, balsam fir enjoys the great
est popularity; in the South, where
fir is difficult of access, scrub pine
is most commonly used, while in the
Rocky Mount States and Pacific
Northwest, lodgepole pine and Doug
las fir, respectively, form the bulk of
the supply.
Contrary to the belief of many, |
the cutting of Christmas trees is not
inconsistent with good forestry |
practice. In the first place, most trees
trre-ctti by fanners who plant "Christ "
mas tree stock on land unsuited for
agriculture and receive from their
annual crop of evergreens an income j
large enough to be extremely help
ful at the season of the year when
all other farm receipts are at their
lowest.
Secondly, foresters agree that tim
ber, like any other growing crop,
needs to be thinned out in order that
the remaining trees may attain their
maximum size and strength. This is
readily understandable when it is
realized that frequently as many as
50,000 to 100,000 young seedlings can
he found on a single acre. The per
iodic harvesting of Christmas trees,
as of all other types, is actually an
important part of progressive for
estation. By means of" this selective
cutting and other accepted practices
the timber products companies all
over America are bringing our grow
ing timber stand to its present pro
ductivity ? more than adequate to
meet all civilian and defense needs
for decades to come.
In other words, the cutting of a
certuin percen of young growth,
or the harvesting of mature trees
before they become over-ripe, is an
efficient way of helping nature elim
inate the less fit. Moreover, it helps
prevent the accumulation of fallen
dead trees, potential breeding places
for insects and fungi, and a menace
from the fire-fighting angle.
ary War, when homesick Hessian sol
diers her?^ brought evergreen trees
from the woods to decorate and light
them in accordance with their native
German custom, the use of the
Christmas tree has been known to
us. Because of the feeling on the part
of many churchpeople that the fes
tivity connected with the tree was
too much of a throw-back to ancient
pagan ceremonies, however, wide
spread acceptance of the decorated
tree did not follow for several de
cades . . N -
in laqt, it was not until 185ti that
Massaclifcsetts, home of the Plym
outh Pilgrims who had denounced
Christmas as being a feast day of
the Established Church from which
they had fled, proclaimed Christmas
a legal holiday. Since that time the
Christmas tree has become a univer- ?
sally established symbol of hope, life '
and merriment.
To preserve the appearance and
fragrance of Christmas trees, ex- !
Quotas Safeguard Cotton Prices
Cotton growers have an
important question to an
swer when they visit their V
community polling places
Saturday, December 13, to
decide whether quotas will I
be placed on their 1942 pro
duction. Cnttnn.-pgic?--this
year are the highest since (
1929, despite a drop in ex
ports due to the war. Pact
ors responsible for good t
prices are marketing quotas,
the 85 percent of parity loan,
and increased domestic de- ?
tnand. Without a price-supporting |
program in 1936-37, surpluses piled
up and prices dropped sharply, as
can be seen in the chart. When mar
keting quotas* were adopted in 1938..
?piii'us began to rise again. E. Y. j
perts of American Forest Products
Industries declare, the stumps of ev
ergreens should be cut, diagonally,
about an inch above the original cut.
Then the stump should be placed in
a crock of water ,and the troe set up
in a room that is not too warm. The
moisture in the tree will be maintain
ed in this way, and the needles will
drop less readily.
NOTICE
North Carolina. Martin County. In
The Superior Court.
Epliriam Peele, Executor of the Will
of Alexander Peele, vs. Roscoe
Pccle, Noah Pcclc, Homer Pcelc,
JS. FARM PRICE OF COT TON
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Floyd. AAA executive of N. C. State
College, says there will bo no AAA
cotton program anil no loans on the
1942 crop if more than one-third of
i there voting in tin- irfru'iidum matk
"No" on their ballots
Ollie Itobcrson. Have Koberson,
Pew Ward. Tom Ward. Arminte
llarnhill. William Peele. Theodore
Manning. Joseph Manning, et als.
The defendants, Hoseoe Peele, No
ah Peele. Horn or Peele. Ollie Uober
son, Dave Hoberson. Pew Ward. Tom
Ward, Arminte Harnlull, William
Peele. Theodore Manning. Joseph
| Manning, w ill take notice that an
I action entitled as above has been
j commenced in the Superior Court of
Martin County. North,Carolina, to
divide the land of Alexander Peele, i
and to sell the one half undivided in- ?
terest to make assets to pay the debts |
of the decedent; and the said defend
Feeding Of Milk To Baby
Chicks Is Common Practice
*
The feeding of milk as a drink to
3aby chicks in addition to the grain
ind mash fed is a common practice
where surplus milk is available on
he farm. When this is done, it is de
sirable to feed this for not more than
:wo hours a day, preferably at mid
iay or in the early afternoon. Water
nay or may not be placed before the
?hicks during the time the milk is
'ed. However, the feeding of milk
iocs not eliminate the necessity of
nash feeding. Metallic containers
thou Id not be used *?
in Is will further take notice that
they are required to appear at the
? Ifice of the Clerk of the Superior
Jourt i of the said County, in the
Joiirt House in Williamston, North
Carolina, within ten days after the
?ompletion of the service of this
summons by publication, and answer
>r demur to the petition in the said
iction. or the plaintiff will apply to
lie court for the relief demanded in
.aid petition.
This the 2nd day of Dec, 1941.
I. B WYNNK.
Clerk of Superior Court of
15 U Martin County, N. C.
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D. A. JAMES
GENERAL STORE Robersonville
Going Out Business Sale
VALUES that
WILL SWEEP YOU
OFF YOUR FEET
AS WE KIJSH INTO THE SECOND WEEK OE SKIS
SATIONAL SEIJJNC TO CLOSE OUT THIS MAM
MOTH STOCK WITHIN THE NEXT TWO WEEKS.
Such ('roivris!
Such Enthusiasm
Such Buying!
Kver nee anything like il V
Neither have we! JiihI
goen to nliow folkn like
real value,, nn<l at Jamen'
in where you get 'em!
I Look! Look!
it
81 in. Bleached or Unbleached
Sheeting, yd. . 39c
KO square PERCALE
Prints, yard . . 19c
ONE LOT
Prints, yard . . 15c
ONE LOT CHILDREN'S
Anklets, pair ,5c
70x80 Double Part Wool
lllankets, ea. $2.59
LADIES' RAYON
Slips, each . 53c
[regular 25c
(Cretonnes, yd 18c
Lard Cans, ea. 43c
(H it oim mm; i vsr
w i:i?m:si?\v was \
Knockout
We e r r completely
hMlllll JX'll. ( (f NHI^HI1, we
expected it p-iirrou? re
sponse froiii nil onr olil
riihliililiTH who well Know
tin* ipiality i?f our mer
chandise, lull llir niiiity
new farm thai made their
initial appearance the
opening il a y together
with a liberal turn out of
old customers simply
made il impossible to
give everyone the service
we want to maintain right
to the end of our closing.
So we offer a|Miliijtin< to
any one who did not re
ceive the eoifrlesy and
service expected.
I). A. JAMES.
No. 2 Galvanized WASH
I tiIts, each . .8ttc
JO-qt. GALVANIZED
Pails, each . 28c
II illi' OjH ii To
The Floot I Gate
()/ liurfiainx!
Si'iiilin^ tlini! -.ainl.-i wiirlh
of fine iiu'rchaiidise in
to lli?- IiiiiiiIh of lllillkill^
|ir<i|ilc!
Look! Look!
One lot Ladies' Ties, Tumps &
< )\ l ords, pi'. . . 59c
MEN'S DRESS OXFORDS
Ah low an-pr. 1.79
MEN'S WORK SHOES
Ah low aH-|>r. 1.69
BOYS' GYM
Shoes, pair . .59c
MEN'S $1 25 DRK^S
Sliirtn, each .88c
MEN'S Winter Weight UNION
Suits, each . 88c
MEN'S FELT HATS
As low as-ea. 1.39
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