Farmers Urged To
Defend Nation, Soill
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A Nation can never be any strong
er or any richer than its soil, says
Eari H. Meacham. Extension soil
conservationist of State College be
cause poor soils make poor people
People He urges that far
,K d the soil" at the same
T the and
t^*nul* i^or and produce hogs,
? other Products on the
Food-for-Freedom list.
A definite program for farmers
to follow in meeting their war-time
goals without destroying the Nation's
leritage?its soil?is contained in a
new Extension War Series Bulletin
iH?.i,)',Wr'tten by Meacham and
printed for free distribution by the
Extension Service. A copy of this
publication, entitled "Defend Your
?"',?n.and ?ts Soil," may be ob
atiSw W* the Agricultur
al Mltor, N. C. State College. Ral
eigh, requesting the bulletin by
name and number. ?
thf?1?e.0' suggestions made by
the Extension soil conservationist
lMd"that Tfr*Ce StCep land or
land that washes; (2) plant row
crops on the contour; (3, do not ren
UP Bnd down the hills;
4 protect your woodland from fire;
roLhE- striP-cropping wherever
possible, (8) save all horoelgrown
^ if0"'a"d (7) draln 'arm
land when this is needed
The farmers have been assigned
am "hu? .V" thC War " Mid Meach
T'. but they can't afford to waste
their soil as was done in many cases
tklLs"* 'Mt War 1,10 United Na
farmers of the Unit
ed 5>Utes to grow enough soybean
resch^.r/h0" l? "" tank cars to
tre and L if ry aCro8s the conn
exion, ^ pr?duce enough 10
gallons cans of milk to build 25
mM'of't8 ,He SUC ?f the ?reat pyra
n^P 1 enOUgh hogs to make
to UU P?ce8s,on' two abreast, snout
1? clear around the world; and
every second? L " y?U broke one
ve? tT? \ W0Uld take 1.800
years to break them all. It can be
done, and it will be done, and there
dotag t0 dMtr?y the "?il in ,he
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Farm Fire Loss Can
Be Cut Sharply
S^^E"NS:56oust
Weaver, head of-the State rnll..n '
^ne^'n' f?f AgT'cultural
" in rural communi
008 000 Jiuage* add fln0ther *125,
000.000 trf the annual fire toll. Even I
sX is'Te'?"1 ? War tm0' b"
durt'inn t '?"uagricultural pro
hSui" " bard-to-replace farm
Sr2S.and th6ir go Z
firef"CWeCaa? b? d?ne 1,1 prevent
tires Weaver asserted, "if farm
fUT'ft iWU1 re,nov,e f're hazards
from their farmsteads. Dry windv
days increase the likelihood 'of fam
aSd,'w^Chlly a*16" Cr?P rcsidue
"J bave dried out "
P0"118 out that an inten
sive fire-prevention and fire-fight
ing program is being organized as
?*nU.^aw?U"' by """ty fami
Hi! ^ al ,lre and forest war
dens, and voluntary fire-fightlnv
gTeTl'Tu ?e Sta*P College en*
in i, six Precautions to take
m avoiding costly farm fires:
stJel dnfff SU??lleS 0f gago'ine i,
aar "Swrss
or ^ga^fune'^hou Id "never1 'be* stored
in builtllng, containing hay or straw.
It may heat and cause fire
fpi! thf Interior of buildings
eimiv l^lVL ' ?'ly T'" and other
,^iyujgD"ed materials. Remove
c0*webe?they burn easily.
(8) Never pile bundles of papers
nmr stoves, furnace, or cwSS?
;n^s!:eeptben,understai"
JH ??mtne the farmhouse and
other farnf buildings annuaUy and
faulty chimneys, flues, fire
pleces and heating equipment
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Coccidiotit It Kept At
Minimum In Beaufort
Coccidkwls has beent kept at a J
minimum in Beaufort County this
yahr, although there have been a
limited number of severe outbreaks
reports W. O. Andrews, assistant
faun agent
Bataan Heroines Back Home
0. S. Army Blsaal Corp. Phot.
Smilingly poiing at the Presidio in San Francisco are three U. S. Army
nureee after their arrival from the Pacific war sone. They saw service
in besieged Bataan, taking care of from 180 to 238 patients each and
working seventeen honrs daily. The ordeal was so tough that the girls
lost from fifteen to twenty-five pounds apiece.
At FDR Dinner
Vice-President Henry A. Wallace
and Luis Quintanilla, Mexican Min
ister to the United States, arc shown
at a dinner given in New York's
Waldorf-Astoria in honor of Presi
dent Franklin D. Roosevelt, who
received the annual Churchn.an s
Award, but who, due to his heavy
war responsibilities, could not it
tend. Wallace, who was the princi
pal speaker, predicted that North
and South America would take part
in establishing a "time of true peace
based on justice to all peoples."
(Central Prat)
State College Hints
For Farm Homes
State Home Demonstration Agent
The Food and Nutrition Board of
the National Research Council has
started a campaign to obtain the en
richment of all white bread and
flour by September 1, 1942. Farm
homemakers can help in this pro
gram by demanding enriched flour
and braed of their local millers and
grocers The enrichment of white
flour and its products is sought in
the interest of improving diet,
health and efficiency as a war-time
measure.
From now on women's shoes will
be more comfortable, with lower
heels and room to wiggle your toes
around. There will be more oxfords
and fewer styles. Goatskin and kid
may become the scarcest of leathers.
Keep shoes in good repair. Shine
daily and wear half-soles proudly as
a "badge of patriotic cooperation."
Haat is the No. 1 enemy of rub
ber goods. The higher the tempera
ture, the more quickly rubber gets
weak, cracks and becomes sticky.
Cold does not harm rubber. Rubber's
enemy No. 2 is light. Oils and greases
are enemy No. 3
Woe unto the home dressmaker
who does not heed changing war
time fashions?shortening of jack
ets, the narrowing of skirts, the slim
ming down of the silhouette?all de
signed to use less yardage of cloth.
The woman or girl who comes out
this fall in a dress with a full, wide
skirt or a coat with big patch pock
ets will be dated, not 1942, but 1940
and 1941
Sampton Farmer? Have
Good Stand Of Tobacco
Sampson County farmers have
good stands of tobacco and cotton
this year, although wire worms have
done some damage to the tobacco
crop, reports Assistant Farm Agent
J. P. Stovall.
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The shells turned out by Army
ordnance plants are packed in 30,
000 tons of paper board each month.
THE LETTER-BOX
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Dear Editor
Here is something 1 want you to
public so other farmers can see what
i Martin County farmer is doing for
defense.
Mr. and Mrs Zeno Beddard and
their two girls, Thelma, age 14; Dor
is. age 13. and one boy, age IS, have
done the following so far this year
They have an 8-acre garden full
>f nice produce, a pen full of laying
hens, have sold over 1000 fryers al
ready and saved 2S0 pullets to lay.
about 500 more to sell. You can pass
there most any night and they are
in the porch with a lamp preparing
vegetables to sell next morning. 1
never pass there and find them not
working. They have plenty hogs and
those children work all the time
They can at nights in summer from
1000 to 2000 quarts of fruits and veg
etables. They live at home more
than any family in Marttn County
1 know. They pick dry peas and
beans through summer for winter,
save enough Irish potatoes for win
ter, save their own onions, save most
nf their garden seed, raised plenty
of everything to eat. There is no
gas used for pleasure riding on the
Beddard farm by them. When you
see them riding they are riding for
profit. They never throw anything
away. They even save every chick
en feather from the chickens they
dress. You never know of them hav
ing time for sports. They always
find something to do. If all farm
families would do like Mr. and Mrs.
Zeno Beddard's family, you would
see plenty of food everywhere, less
ure, more saving, long hours. Work
is what it will take to win this war
for us.
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Demonstration Farmer Is
Making Profit on Legumes
S. A. Jones, unit demonstration
farmer of the Cedar Mountain com
munity in Transylvania, says he is
now making a profit on his legumes
after treating his soil with phosphate
and lime.
Pedal to Bomber Building Jobs
Fmntoyea >t tha Donglaa piano fcetory, Santa Monica, CaJ., 1 icing
A.tancea of tha plant, ara doing their part in tha
dried to aara robber and gaaoline, by pedallaf totheir Joba. Tha War
Production Board has allocated for purchase by tha Douglas personnel,
aoma^B7M ooTVf th! 9.000 bicyclaa joat ral?a?d to war pUnU. Thi.
ia the bieyele-ehaeltiag area in frtait of tha plant. Tha ,oldier la ona of
^, ?.rd. atd th. younr Udy -1th tho Identification bntton. on. of
tha Douglaa plant vorkara.
HIXTY SIGE
-he wants ter know.
Ef whats in a name, makes ther
puddin ther same, what makes ther
world helter-skelter?
When I was a boy onced, I knowed
a feller named Smith; and after a
while 1 met up with a nuther feller
named Smith; and as I growed out
into ther world, I met summo Smiths
and ther further I growed out ther
moro Smiths I met with. And I was
a-tellin one of em one day that he
certainly sprung outn a big famly,
and he says?Yeah, we air THE fam
ly of ther world, cause onct tl.ar
wnnt nnhndy srptin Smiths in ther
world. Evybody wus named Smith,
twell one day one of em dun sum
thin wrong, and berfore he would
re-main a disgrace to the Smith fam
ly he changed his name to Jones.
And after ther Jonses got started
good, one of them dun sumthing
wrong, and he changed his name *o
Brown. Then, finly one day one ther
Browns tuck and stole a sheep or
sumthin, and ho changed his name
to Little; maby bercause he had dun
such a little thing.
An all that peers lak means that
evybody got thay name frum sum
thin mean thay dun; lessen after a
while folks what had dun sum good
things .picked em out sum good
names, lak Goodman and Jestis, and
Faircloth, all meanin a yard wide
thoi^l no fudgin.
And then after a while sum folks
bergun to pick out sum big sound
in names, be thay good or bad, lak
Bummershine, which mout mean tu
ther or which; all makin me wonder ,
?when is Mr. Hitler a-goin to think
hes dun ernuf to make him change
his name'' And ef he was to find
names run out, and had to change
hack to Smith, then ther Smith fam
ly would need sum-mo perfection.
But ef Mr. Do-Little had jest chang
ed his name to Do-Much, thar would
not be no Hitlers, nor Tojos, nuther,
Couese, Mr. Mussy-line has got his
lino all must-up, and aint in ther
cast in bizness no mo.)
Wheat Crop In (Iranville
la Beat In Number Years
The wheat crop in Granville Coun
ty i& the best m a large number of
years, according to W. B. Jones, as
sistant farm agent oV the N. C. State
College Extension Service.
In Grifton Sunday
Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Waters and
daughters, Pennie Rose and Julia
Clyde, also Miss Nome Melson, vis
ited in Grifton Sunday.
Visiting in Grifton
Miss Julia Clyde Waters is spend
ing a few days with Mr. J. A. Sum
rell in Grifton.
Entertain White House Guard
Enjoying herself immensely as she sits surrounded by some of the 4L
officers and men who guard the White House is the First Lady of the
U. S. Mrs. Roosevelt is shown on the south lawn as she and the men
attending a garden party held for them listened to an address by the
President. He told the soldiers that they "may be here a long time."
(Central Prey
1 flCTORT
ON THE FARM FRONT
f news from ttm
Aqncnltvral fxfmstot Strmct
FARMERS MUST GET AI.ONG
WITHOUT Bl'RI.AP RAGGING
Farmers will have to depend
largely on l>ags made of substitutes
for burlap, on odd-size bags, and
on re-use of old bags for handling
their crops this year, reports John
W. Goodman, assistant director of
the State College Extension Service.
He says that due to the war emer
gency. there will be no more heavy
weight burlap for agricultural bags
this year
"Consequently," said Goodman,
"it is essential for farmers to plan
for greater use of cotton and paper
hags. In many cases it will be heceH
sary that fanners use unusual or
odd-shaped bags. In order to meet
war-time requirements, textile mills
are finding -4t? necessary weave
fabrics of certain widths and con
structions not generally used by
agricultural bag manufacturers."
The Extension official said fann
ers also will find that the cotton bags
will cost more than burlap bags;
however, there appears to be no al
ternative except to pay a higher
price for the substitute bags, in
order to insure safe storage and
transportation of agricultural com
"Part of this difference in price
can be overcome by getting maxi
nuim use out of all old bags now' 011
the farm," Goodman suggested. "Re
use of burlap and other bags 011
hand, and care of new cotton bags
for later re-use is an important part
of the whole situation."
Immediately after Pearl Harbor
it was apparent that tin- burlap sup
ply would be insufficient for both
civilian and military use On De
cember 22. the War Production
Board issued an order allocating two
thirds of all burlap iriiports to mill
tary uses, with one-third to be used
THE RECORD
SPEAKS . . .
Only one accident crept into
the wreckord last week. A small
youth, riding a bicycle, and an
automobile clashed on a Rob
ersonville Street, injuring the
hoy painfully but not seriously.
While the trend is away from
auto road Accidents, it is appur
ent that increased bicycle riding
is beginning to figure more and
more in accidents. Parents will
do well to caution their chil
dren, and tlie old-timers should
get it into their heads that a bi
cycle is no match when it conies
t?? attacking a motor vehicle
The following tabulations of
fer a comparison of the accident
trend: first, by corresponding
weeks in this year and last and
for each year to the present time.
25th Week Comparison
Accidents InJ'd Killed Dam'ge
1042 1 1 -0?$ 20?
1041 3 5 0 975
Comparison To Date
1942 41) 23 I $ 4.455
1941 46 31) 2 16,1)00
Returns from High Point
Master Wilton Knox returned on
Saturday from a visit with relatives
in High Point, Greensboro and Bur
lington. lb' was accompanied home
Preddy, Mis Rex Stephenson and
Miss Mary Lou Stephenson, of Kal
nudj ??
Is Visiting Her Sister
Mrs. Donald Andrews, after un
dergoing treatment in the local hos
pital, is spending a few days with
her sister. Mis. Arnold Roberson,
in Griffins Township before return
ing to her home in Norfolk.
for agricultural bags Agricultural
bags requiring lightweight burlap
are now available in small quanti
ties for a short time, possibly as late
as December, 1942.
Check On Effect
Of Gas Rationing
Eastern seaboard states checked
up after a month of gas rationing,
found: highway accidents had drop
ped off by half in some areas; traf
fic fatalities decreased by up to 40
per cent; juvenile delinquency abat
ed as parents refused to let Junior
have the car; lull bridges suffered
terrific drops in revenue, in some
cases as high 75 per cent; service
stations withered or died (in Rhode
Island, half of them were forced to
close), and golf, minor league base
bull and seaside resorts wore ser
iously crippled. Now the OPA is
considering a three-cents-a-gallon
boost in retail gasoline prices in
these states, to help meet the add
ed oil transportation costs. The the
orv is that it would be less of a cost
of-living booster to tack it on there
than to add it to fuel oil prices
/-// (llub Member* Receive
(.hick* For \ ictory Projectx
Tin ity-four 4-11 Club members of
Polk County have received 1.640 ba
by chicks for their Victory projects,
report., S H Dobs on, assistant farm
agent
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Musi Be I'uid by llie lthh Buy of the Second Calendur Month Following the Calendar Month in Which the Purchase Was Made,
Not just our Army, Navy and Air Force, but every man, woman and child in the United Stales is at War, Total War. War means
Discipline?Discipline is the most important element In our whole endeavor, and whether we like it or not, we must do what we are
told to do. Uncle Sam means business when he speaks.
Government Regulations have been set up for the SELI.ERS and BUYERS of FURNITURE:. And under these regulations the Gov
ernment Is speaking to the Sellers and the Buyers in the same positive language.
Twenty per cent or 33 1-3 per cent means Just exactly what tt says, and SI.23 nr S2.30 per wrck, or JTiOT or Stb.bft per month means
just exactly what it says.
If a bill is sold without the proper down payment, both the Seller and the Buyer have violated the Government Regulations.
If a Buyer does not pay as agreed?his proper weekly or monthly payments and his account Is not paid out in dur time?both the
Seller and the Buyer have violated the Government Regulations.
When your furniture dealer tells you that you must pay a specific amount down under Federal Regulations, remember, it is your
government speaker. And when you are told at the office or by a collector that you must pay as agreed, again it is your Government
speaking.
Everyone of us must realize and realize now that we are a part of this Great Nation, and much depends on how we behave in our rela
lions with each other. We, the undersigned merchants, pledge to do our full part and cooperalr with our Government in the mat
ter of business Regulations. We sincerely ask that our customers cooperate with us to the end that we as a Nation may be preserv
ed as a FREE and HAPPY PEOPLE.
PRICE CEILING
All household furnishings are under the
Price Ceiling Order and all the undersign
ed Furniture Merchants have complied with
this regulation in every respect.
A11 iteflas- are pnoed in plain figures.. Be
cause of the Government Regulation, prices
cannot go up.
Because of the manufacturing cost prices
are not expected to go down. You can
BUY NOW with full confidence.
B. S. COURTNEY
PHONE 155 WILLIAMSTON, N. C.
Woolaid Fur. Co.
PHONE 31 WILLIAMSTON. N. C.
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Provided For Farmers
And School Teachers
T ERMS:
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