Farmers Urged To Defend Nation, Soill ??? 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 ? 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 O- ? 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. a The shells turned out by Army ordnance plants are packed in 30, 000 tons of paper board each month. THE LETTER-BOX ?> 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. ? 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 TO CHECK % M* } IN / DAYS J ve I PRIMROSE THE BEST m mm/ Straight Rya Whiakay i * JUL. 95c ZLi *1.80 FULL QUART GOODIRHAM & WOK IS LTD.. PtURIA. ILL. '-j I IN COMPLIANCE WITH GOVERNMENT l< CCIJLATION "VT YOU CAN BUY FURNITURE ON EASY PAYMENT PLANS FOR ONLY 20% DOWN Willi the Kxceplioii of the Following Items Which l{c<|iiirc 33 1-3 Per Cent Down COMFORTS, BLANKETS, CURTAINS, DRAPERIES, LINENS. TOWELS; CLOCKS, ELECTRIC OK OTHER. FOR HOUSEHOLD OK PEKSONA1 USE ELECTRIC DISHWASHERS, FOR HOUSEHOLD USE; ELECTRIC APPLIANCES, ALL FLOOR COVEKINIi, HEATING STOVES AND SPACF HEATERS I AMPS FOR HOUSEHOLD USE; LAWN MOWERS, POWER DRIVEN OR OTHERWISE; RADIOS AND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS SEWING MACHINES Sll VEKWARE REFRIGERATORS, MECHANICAL, FOR HOUSEHOLD USE; TABLEWARE AND MACHINES, FOR HOUSEHOLD USE WASHING MACHINES FOR HOUSE HOLD USE; LUGOAGE, AND IRONERS KXCKPTION: When Cash Price of Purchase Is Less Than S6.00, Not Regulated. 7 pi All Of Above Applies To 1h>th ISeiv Atul Used Articles. 30 - DAY CHARGE ACCOUNTS (NOT INSTALLMENT ACCOUNTS) 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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