Farmers Told Musi
Save Soybean Seed
For Crop Next Year!
National Defense Program
Calls for Large Increase
In Acreage Next Year
Farmers of North Carolina are
asked to Increase their production
of soybeans by 56.000 acres in 1942
as one of the goals of the Food-for -
Freedom campaign.
J. A. Rigney. agronomist of the N.
C. Experiment Station with head
quarters at Slate College, says the
soybean goal cannot be met unless
seed for the 1942 crop are saved right
now.
?'With soybeans selling at more than
twice what they brought at this time
last year." Rigney said, "and with
very limited storage facilities on the
farm, most of our beans will go to
processors' warehouses within the
next month. Any attempt to estab
lish seed source for the prospective
planting next year must be done now.
Once seed is bulked, retrieving pure
seed is impossible "
The agronomist said that a mixture
of varieties of soybeans will do as
much to reduce the yield as any one
factor. Differences the time of ma
turity make harvesting difficult, and
subsequent storage of seed hazard
ous. For Instance. Rigney pointed out
that Herman variety beans mature in
135 days. Toklo In 140 days, and
Wood's Yellow In 160 days. "A mix
ture of these, or most of the other
varieties, will cause complications."
he stated.
The Experiment Station has found
In Its tests that the Wood's Yellow,
Toklo and Herman beans do best in
the Coastal Plain, with the Wood's
Yellow yielding good as beans, being
shatter-proof, and producing a fair
amount of oil The Herman bean
yields the most oil. but shatters badly
and is only a fair yielder of beans
The Toklo also tends to shatter, is a
fair yielder of beans, and Is better
than the Wood's Yellow in percent
age of oil.
There's Got to
Be A Santa
Claus
By CHANN1NQ POLLOCK
in the RotarUn Magazine
When she was a very little girl, my
daughter asked, "What would you
do if there weren't any trees?"
"Why," I answered, lightheartedly,
"we'd have to invent some. We could
not get on without trees."
There are quite a lot of things?
food, shelter, clothing?we couldn'1
get on without, and a number of wise
men have made my suggestion ?
we'd have to invent them. What we
must have even more than these are
food for the mind, shelter for the
spirit, that which clothes the naked
ness of mere animal existence, and
gives warmth to human contacts.
We celebrate Christmas as a re
ligious festival, but a Christmas was
celebrated hundreds of years before
Christ. The ancient people of the An
gli, in which is now Britain, had ir
December a Modranecht, or "moth
ers' night." There had to be a day set
aside for kindness, and generosity
and remembering those we love, and
those less fortunate.
Before and since Dickens wrote his
immortal "A Christmas Carol", there
have been a few Scrooges who cried
of Christmas, "Bah, humbug!" I have
heard modern Scrooges call it a
shopkeepers' holiday, and a nuis
ance, l?ut for the overwhelming ma
jority of us, as for Scrooge's nephew,
it is "a good time; a kind, forgiving,
charitable, pleasant time; the only
time I know of in the long calendar
of the year when men and women
open their shut-up hearts freely . .
1 say God bless it."
There is a certain magic in a day
when even strangers bid us be mer
ry; when the mail and telephone
and telegraph and all the means ol
communication commonly devoted tc
business bring cheery wishes for
"Merry Christmas." Shopkeepers
holiday? Bah! Humbug! It isn't a
necktie or a dollar bill that we slip
into the hand of the janitor or the
postman; it's goodwill and thank you
for a year of service. It isn't a toy
train that we put under the tree for
Junior, or a muffler that we wrap
in red tissue for Aunt Julia, but the
knowledge that Junior has always
wanted a train, and Aunt Julia has
needed a muffler, and the loving de
sire that, just this one day, they shall
have what they want and need, and
that we shall see the pleasure in their
eyes, and feel the warmth of thell
joyful kisses.
Believe it or not, and smile if you
fcteTaM UtoT^sr kte.
GIFT
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thai you have keen
looking for!
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"Gift Center"
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AUK GIFTS AT THEIR BEST!
This year we have the finest line of giflx
to he fonn<l in WilliaiiiHlon. Gifts thai
are unusual ami of unsurpassed heuuty.
Stop hy at your convenience. We shall
he glad to show you.
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121 Main 'Gift Center' Telephone 55-J
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Death of the Lehigh
Samuel Hakam, radio operator of the LeAigk, made theae photographa
of the ainking of the American freighter from the lifeboat in which he
eecaped. The L*h\gh waa torpedoed in the aouth Atlantic, about aeventy
flTB mllea northweat of Freetown, Africa. Top, the atern can be aeen
dipping under the water. Center, the water cornea amidahip and the
bow lifts clear of the aea. Bottom, the ahip aeema to atand on her atern,
the how pointing atraight to the ekj. All aboard were rescued.
tLofr Stantuna
XI j'/ntb
Mcr dVa&b
like, but, at?we 11,^4y 60, my wife
and I will hang up our stockings.
What a lot of love and laughter and
tenderness goes into the trifling
gifts we select for those symbols. We
trim our little'Hree with bright stars
and tinsel, and for days ahead, in |
secret, we write messages, and wrap
things in gay paper, and hide them
from one another until the morning
of mornings.
Shopkeepers' holiday! Was it only
a shaving kit I could have got for
myself that went into that starry
package, or was it my daughter's
heart that remembered the time, ages
ago, when I said, "Damn that old
razor. Some day I'm going to have
one that fits into my hand properly"?
What about the crate of oranges that
comes every Christmas from a color
ed elevator boy in Florida? I can buy
better oranges, hut I can't buy what
comes with these
We dine every day, hut there is
only one Christmas dinner. For
years that was a family festival, with
all our dear ones about the table
Most of them are gone now, and our
Christmas guests are people who,
whatever their means, have no home
r>f thr.ir U/hvr? U/oll u,h,.n I i.rou
I mm IS SMART
I HE TAKES /HE "BACK HOM
I FOR SERVICE...!
r' YOUR FORD could talk you'd learn in
abort order that you get best Ford serv
ice at your Ford Dealer's. Because only
experienced Ford mechanics work on your
car. Factory approved tools and equipment
eliminate expensive "guesswork." And
any replacement parti used are genuine
Ford parts, best every time for your Ford.
So if you want your Ford to last longer, run
better, and cost you less?
BRING YOUR FORD BACK
HOME FOR SERVICE!
Williamston Motor Co.
ninn in t\
KNOWN AC ROBAT?
"He flies through the air with the
greatest of ease, the daring young
man on the flying trapeze." When
asked- w-hat bird 11 >e above familiar
couplet represents, a tar heel should
be quick to reply, "The Carolina
Chickadee," because this tomtit is
known as the "acrobat" of birddom.
By going "chickadeeing" on the
first snowy day, a person's reward
will be a friendly, cheerful little
gray and black ball of fluff singing
gaily. The darkest and coldest win
ter that spills a calm over the earth
fails to stop the joyous notes of this
songster.* He responds to friendly ov
ertures and can he made a regular
visitor by having a supply of food
placed on trees, posts, or a feeding
shelf at some convenient place.
The Carolina chickadee is one of
the-fawner's most valuable helpers.
His diet includes plant lice, scale in
sects, weevils, ants, wasps, spiders,
tent-caterpillars, various kinds of
eggs, and winter stages of other in
sects. He is an excellent plant in
spector. Being a seed eater, this farm
and orchard inhabitant should not
be feared because the seeds of weeds
destroyed more than compensates for
any valuable grain eaten
When nesting time comes, a cavity
in the deeper woods is chosen. It may
be a hole in a dead or living tree, or
19, and away from my home for the
first time at Christmas, a very lone
ly lad, the mother of a chap employ
ed in tin- office with me asked me
to her home. I never saw her again;
she has been dead nearly 40 years,
hut she and that dinner live lriSftfcy
memory
Last Christmas my wife and I. had
half a dozen old actors, forgotten
now, and we talked of the great days
in the theater, and lived them again
until long after midnight. Irene
Franklin, who had been the idol of
vaudeville, sang several of her best
songs to us, and a very old Shake
spearean actor repeated?and how!
the soliquy from Hamlet. It took
Christmas to restore their heyday
for an hour or two. and that mem
ory goes on our golden pile of Christ
mases.
During a radio broadcast not long
ago, I mrt the middle-aged woman
who, as a child of 8, wrote to the
New York Sun, "Please tell me the
truth, is there a Santa Claus?" Ev
ery year the Sun reprints the reply
it made editorially in 1897: "Yes,
Virginia, there is a Santa Claus He
exists as certainly as love and gen
erosity and devotion exist . , . There
Is it all real? Ah ... in all this world
which not the strongest man, nor
even the united strength Of all the
strongest men that ever lived, could
tear apart. Only faith, fancy poetry,
love, romance, can push aside that
curtain and view and pictuaf the
supernal beauty and glory beyond.
Is it all real? Ah in all thsi world
there is nothing else real and abid
ing."
Of course, there's a Santa And if
there weren't, he would be the very
first of the things we'd have to In
vent. Life must have love and a lit
tle childlike Mith to be endurable;
and the year must have at least one
day when we arc more conscious of
faith and love than of business and
bombs and all the realities nobody
doubts?and nobody wants!
Ralph MacDonald In
Address T o Parents
(Robersonville Herald)
At the invitation of the local Par
ent-Teacher Association, Dr. Ralph
MacDonald, director of the extension
division of the University of North
Carolina and also director of the pub
lic forum bureau spoke to a large
group of children, members of the
faculty and citizens of the town on
Monday night.
When the invitation to speak in
Robersonville was accepted by Dr.
MacDonald several weeks ago, the
nation was, comparatively speaking,
at peace with the world and he was
assigned the following subject to
speak on, "Should the U. S. declare
war?" However, on the same day
that Dr. MacDonald spoke, this
country declared war on Japan.
Quite naturally his subject was
changed and he spoke on why this
nation declared war. giving the un
derlying and fundamental reasons
why war was practically unavoid
able with this Asiatic country.
Dr MacDonald emphasized the ne
cessity of fighting this war to a suc
cessful conclusion and he didn't fail
to point out the suffering, the ex
pense and hardshtpntrts country's
people would experience before a
victory is won. "TTns war will have
a far reaching effect on our children
and our grandchildren, and they'll
have to pay billions in taxes and
suffer many privations," Dr Mac
Donald stated.
"Japan is at the cross roads. She
had to fight or back down and her
previous commitments and acts pre
vented the Japs from preventing
war and at the same time, 'save their
faces.' The psychology of the Orient
al is such that he had rather die than
break faith or back down."
"Japan is primarily an aggressor
a place excavated by the birds them
selves in a decaying limb, stump or
fence post. Sometimes, they adopt an
abandoned hole of some other bird,
especially the downy woodpecker.
The cavity is lined with soft warm
materials including cotton, fur, fea
thers, moss and other convenient
plant growths such as cat-tail fluff.
April is the regular month for nest
ing, and there are usually four to
eight white eggs, sprinkled with
specks of reddish brown.
Speaking of this gray bird with
whitish under parts and black cap
and chin-bib which bears the name,
Carolina chickadee, one well-known
nature writer says that he is "the
acrobat of birddom", His antics in
the bath are entertaining. That writ
er supports the acrobatic idea in the
following words, "Taking a step or
two along the rim, he bobs up and
down a bit; then, as if suddenly gain
ing courage, he plunges headlong in,
for all the world, like small bare boys
in some old swimming hole. So tiny
and adorable is he, as he peers over
thi? rim of the bath, just his little
black Cap, bnghFeyos, and black bib
showing, that he reminds one of a
gay water sprite."
___This chickadee, member of the tiU
mouse family, is truly man's friend,
for it is often said that, "He sings
wlien all else in nature is silent."
Band Will Appear
In Concert Soon
Next Thursday night, December
18, the Williamston band will present
a program dtvtdcd into dhree parts.
Appropriately one part will be
Christmas music and another Patriot
ic numbers, the other third consist
ing of miscellaneous numbers.
The band members are already
selling tickets - which will be ex
changed at the door for Defense
Stamps. The band organization will
then buy Government bonds with
the proceeds raised.
This is a timely concert and the
association is aiding in the defense
of the country. They hope to start an
all-out defense stamp sale in this
county
Mayor J L. Hassell and Postmas
ter Leslie T. Fowden will each give
short speeches pertaining to the pur
chasing of defense stamps and the
colors will be presented by a repre
sentative of the American Legion.
Mr. /\ /\ /V#*/ I m proving
In (wovernmvnt Hospital
Troubled by declining health for
many months, Mr P P Peel con
tinues in a government hospital in
Roanoke. Va. Last reports states his
condition was much improved fol
lowing an operation. It could not be
learned .when he planned to return
home.
nation and a willing and cooperative
member of the Axis but her recent
act of desperation was engineered by
Hitler '
Hrnt Method Of Seeding
A Panture On Poor Land
Thousands of acres of poor land
in North Carolina may be made into
pastures within the next few years,
but such attempts will be doomed
Ho failure unless sufficient limestone
and fertilizer are applied first. It
should be remembered that fertiliz
er must always come .before seed
when preparing such land for pas
ture. If such a plan is followed, then
good lespedeza sods may he estab
lished on poc- r'-y i!s. These sods
nv " i .?f. e upon which to
bi. . gt >\) t (f a more
pi n ? i tve ? enplying
su j' \ ? >;e trage t first.
Vi> . >ii Lulield
!\ >s Mildred E<? 't i ? r ting in
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LOU1SBURG FARMER GIVES
POW-O-LIN HIS PRAISE AND
TELLS OF HAPPY RELIEF
"I Felt So SluRKi*h. Achy, l.et Down
And Miserable, Couldn't Half Do
My Work," Declares Well-Known
Franklin County Farmer.
Throughout Franklin and adjoin- ,
ing counties, well-known men and '
women are spreading the good news l
about Tow-o-lin until thousands are
pouring out their grateful," heartfelt
praise to this purely herbal preparu
tion. For instance, Mr N F May.
well-known farmer of Louisburg.
Franklin County, N. C . declares:
"I suffered from indigestion, diz
gy headaches, gas pressure and such j
a let-down, sluggish, achy feeling, 1
j hardly had energy to do anything, i j
never felt like eating as I knew 1
j would bloat and feel so stuffy and |
smotheiy I could hardly get my
I breath I don't believe my bowels
1 would ever have acted if 1 hadn't ta
ken strung laxatives, and 1 often felt
SO weak and xh;iky, ufn-r these.',
purges 1 hardly had strength or ener
gy to get about the farm
? "1 am happy to report blessed re
lief from this harassing distress
FOod never lasted heller and 1 eat
whatever I want and don't fear the
gassy, smothery feeling I haven't
had to take a pill or harsh laxative
f
'POW-O-LIN' DID
W WORK FOR MI
MR. N. I. MAY.
1 took the. first dose of Pow-o
f'l don't suppose there' is a more
matelul. happy man in Franklin
County than I am
pnw o lm i . :i purely hmliiil prop
aration for relief of distresses plag
ued Mi May when due to constipa
tion Pdw o-lin may be obtained at
Clark's pharmacy, Inc.
Big Parade!
Santa Claus
Will Visit
Robersonville
FRIDAY
December 19th 2:.'{() P. M.
Santa Clan* will arrive hy sleigh anil reindeer. The
lli^li mcIiooI hand, liny Scout*, Girl Seoul* and dee
oraled ear* will participate in the parade. Chil
dren and all parent* ure eordially invited to come.
FREE GIFTS For Children
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Do Your Christmas Shopping in Robcrsonvillc
Rohersonville stores have gone lo considerable expense and put
forth much effort to assemble for the people of eastern North Car
olina thousands of carefully selected gift items. They ure reason
aide in price and are arranged in the Itohersonv ille stores to make
shopping easy, profitable and |deusunt. We urge everyone to shop
early and shop in Kohersonville. Here you'll find gifts and qual
ity merrtiandise for any memher of the family.
Robersonville Chamber of Commerce