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Tuesday September 4, 1943.
In Ten-Year Perspective
The United States can now look back on ten
years under a national Social Security program
—long enough to view the experience with
some perspective and objectivity. At its best
ami . its broadest aspects, Social Security
stands as monumental evidence that co-opera
tion and a sense of community responsibility
can exist and function in a highly competitive
economy. At its worst, it could delude some,
as can printing-press money, into the fatuous
belief that a nation can vote itself an income.
The American public has, on the whole, come
to realize and to accept: 1. That the old founda
tions of economic security, farm and family,
have been greatly weakened, and that in the
world of modern industry security has been
largely translated into terms of money and in
stitutions 2 That a very substantial portion
of the Nation’s population do not earn enough
over the years to insure themselves adequately
against the problems of unemployment, illness,
and old age o. That its first fears of the pro
gram’s pauperizing effects were somewhat ex
treme. Most people find in work a life as well
as a liv ing. Few desire idleness, especially at
the level of a bare necessities. 4. That a Nation
which counts itself civilized and humane will
no longer permit so many of its people to bear
the raw consequences of insecurity untempered
by a general sharing of the burden.
The public, on the other hand, is not wholly
comfortable about several things. It is not sure,
for instance: 1. That accumulations for the
several “risks” are even approaching the sound
est actuarial basis possible under the admitted
ly pioneer conditions. 2. That, accumulated re
serves are sufficiently set apart and safeguard
ed for the specific purposes of the security pro
gram alone 3 That the scope of protection, be
cause of the appeal to a deep human want,
might not be built to such proportions as to
overburden the whole economy and thus lessen
everyone's ability to look out for himself. 4. That
the program, especially in its health aspects,
could not lead to an increasingly large bureau
cracy which however well inteptioned, might
try to force upon-ell. what only one school of
thought conceives to be measures for the public
' "*-"Vv'hgtP'\rnT~''jtfa advantages and dangers may
be, sdSSTsecurity as a responsibility and func
tion of government seems here to stay. The
task ahead it to find ways of making it and
keeping it a truly effective servant of society,
never the tool of any self-seeking or self-cen
tered group.
Hoarders and Chiselers on the Spot
Hoarders and chiselers, beware.
At Washington, a woman walked into a drug
store carrying twenty-one cartons of cigarettes
and explained to the clerks, “I bought these dur
ing the shortage and now I’m afraid they’ll go
stale. Will you buy them?” The clerk did not
buy them, and a newsman said that she failed
to dispose of them during the next several
hours.
A truck driver in Birmingham offered cou
pons some hours after gas rationing had been
lifted. Advised that they 'ijggf need
ed .the driwMwxplained that mu * be need’-**
ed s’nce he had paid 75 cents a piece for them
just that morning.
It is possible that hoarders, realizing that the
war is over, will start moving some of their ill
gotten goods back into the market, or at least,
stop the mean practice of hoarding.
They are on the spot, and the over-anxious
will do well to guard against overstocking when
goods become available just because they have
been scarce in the past.
Quite a few chiselers are soon to make their
exit. The manipulator who took sorry tobac
co and turned out “el stinko” and “el ropo” cig
ars and sold them at fantastic prices, should
be forced to lead the parade of traitors.
Hasn't Heard
Tlie management of the Willard Hotel in
Washington, D. C., hasn’t heard about the Four
Freedoms. When a swanky joint can throw
out the family of a war hero under the shadow
of America’s capitol, there is little hope for the
underdog in the world to learn about and enjoy
the Four Freedoms.
The class problem offers to overshadow the
race problem in this fair land of ours, and at
a time so close to the end of a world struggle
for all that is supposed to be good and decent.
GRAPE Market
Opens September 3rd
As In Years Before
GARRETT AND CO.
^ ill you the highest possible dollar for your grupes. See the
agents listed below for eontainers and prices. Plant more vines and
rare for the ones you have. Same prices for black and white varieties.
Pick them ripe. They weigh more. We buy the fairest way for all—by
weight.
Moore Ice Company
Windsor. N. C.
L. B. Williams & Co.
Robersonvtlle, N. C.
Singleton’s Service Station
Highway 32, Washington, N. C.
Lindsley lee Company
Wiltiamston, N. C.
Representative
Lindsley Ice Company
" M. J
Telephone 99 Williamston, IS. C.
GARRETT & COMPANY, Aberdeen, N. C.
IL R. Stillman
Creswell, N. C.
E. G. Harrison
Plymouth, N. C.
Sexton’s Store
Jamesville, N. C.
J. S. Peel and Co.
Everetts, N. C.
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Fertilize Grains
Before Planting
Unless small grains are planted
after such liberally fertilized crops
as cotton and tobacco, they should
receive fertilization before planting,
says Enos Blair, Extension agrono
mist pt State College.
Where legumes have been turned
under, the recommendation is 300
pounds of 0-12-12 or 0-14-7 per acre.
After corn or hay crops, small grains
.reauisfi^s. .... -Ts."
j recommendation for the Coastal
| Plain section is 300 pounds per acre
of 4 10-6 or 5-8-8 and for the Pied
acre of 3-12-6 oi 4-12-4.
Tiutt fertili
ze ti on, Blair cited an outstanding
demonstration conducted by Roland
Salter of Carteret county with oats.
The plot without any fertilizer pro
duced 31 bushels per acre. An ap
plication of 300 pounds of 4-10-6
per acre at planting produced 36
bushels; a topdressing of 150 pounds
of nitrate of soda on March 1 and
no fertilizer at planting, 53 bushels;
and both fertilizer at planting and
the nitrate of soda topdresser, 63
bushels per acre.
On the high plot of 63 bushels per
acre, with oats valued at one dollar
per bushel, 4he total profit from the
fertilizer trr atment was $24.00 per
acre.
Blair recently recommended the
following seeding rates for small
grains to those farmers who are
conducting rotation experiments
with him; wheat, 1-15-4 bushels; oats,
2-3 bushels; rye, same as for wheat;
and barley, 2 bushels.
A- to seeding rates for winter le
| gume^he
per act «•
'.etch, 1* to 25 pounds; and Aus
trian w, iter p«. as, 30 to 40 pounds.
Recommendations for fertilization
are ?/i0 pounds of either an 0-12-12
or 0-14-7. I
Keen Competition
In Broiler Industry
North Carolina’s broiler industry
has shown rapid progress under the
stimulus of war conditions and the
State now ranks sixth in the United
States. Its production is valued at
about 11 million dollars annually.
Along with this development
there are about 75 processing plants
employing about 650 people.
The demand of the present broil
er market has been increased by
the buying of the armed services,
the shipyards, and the transient po
pulation in areas near government
activities. The broiler industry
must meet keen competition and
Prof. Roy S. Dearstyne, head of the
Poultry Department at State Col
lege, comes forward with some time
ly suggestions.
Present needs call for maximum
livability of the chicks started, low
er costs of production, and high
quality of the broilers offered for
sale. The chicks must feather and
grow rapidly, and they must possess
good broiler quality. “As breeding
enters very greatly into the produc
tion of such a chick, more breeding
flocks.for this specific purpose must
be developed,” Dearstyne says. “The
producer of hatching eggs, the hatch
erymar, the broiler producer, and
the processor must all work to
gether.
“North Carolina does not possess
many large consuming centers of
population. Small farm flocks com
pete for the local markets. Because
of this fact, expert markets must be
sought and storage facilities provid
ed. We must also seek for economy
and efficiency of operation, of the
broiler industry of North Carolina
is to retain its present column of
operation."
Broiler Costs Have
Increased 10 Percent
The average cost of producting
broilers during the summer and fall
of 1944 and the spring of 1945 was
76.2 cents for each three-pound bird
sold, but this cost has now increas
ed to 83.9 cents, says a preliminary
report by R. E. L. Greene and H.
Brooks James of the Economics De
partment of the Agricultural Experi
ment Station at State College.
| The study w'as made in Chatham
county and the records of farmers,
feed dealers, and hatchery were
studied. In many cases the feed
dealers produced records showing
the number of chicks bought, pounds
of feed used, the number of broilers
marketed, and the pounds of broil
ers marketed.
| The principal cost items were
baby chicks, charged at 13 cents
each; feed, averaging about $80 a
ton; and labor. The chicks repre
sented 20.3 per cent of the gross
costs; feed, 63 per cent; and labor,
8.7 per cent. Other charges taken
into consideration were fuel, build
ings, equipment, disinfectants and
medications, litter, and power and
light.
| According to the report, most
farmers used commercial starting
and growing mashes entirely in
growing out the broilers. Occasion
ally a small amount of home-grown
feed was used. The feeding of grain
varied widely. While seme farmers
did not feed any grain, others fed
grain for a week or two before the
birds were sold.
I The report says that at the pre
sent time cost factors have increased
MALARIA
CHECKED IN 7 DAYS WITH
666
LIQUID for
MALARIAL
SYMPTOMS
Take only as directed
all along the line and the present
cost of a three-pound broiler is now
83.8 cents rather than 70.2 cents, j
and the cost per pound 27.9 cents |
rather than 25.4 cents.
Sweet potato buyers will meet at i
Gibson on August 1 to study sweet;
potato research tests and new de-:
velopment by all agricultural agen
cies.
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The price of rayon staple fiber
has been reduced from 60 cents a
pound in 1930 to about 24 cents at
present. This means keen competi
tion for cotton.
No other raw material furnishes |
employment and a livelihood to so |
manjr of „ne nation s population as i
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