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Friday, February 1. 1946
Amounts To a Strike
Considering the prices too low, many farmers
have just about quit cutting wood for the pulp
mills. Briefly stated, the farmers struck. How
ever, little was heard from the action because
the farmers turned to other tasks.
Now, let us supose that farmers were entirely
dependent upon the sale of pulpwood for a liv
ing. What course then would the action have
taken. Possibly they would have thrown pick
ets around the mills to keep any pulpwood from
moving in. Or they may have kept on cutting
and selling pulpwood at a loss until their lands
were foreclosed and they were pushed off the
land.
Farmers declare that pulpwood prices are too
low. They quit the woods and turn to other pur
suits. The industrial worker says wages are
not sufficient to offset living costs. He quits,
but he can't turn to other pursuits, and as a re
sult force unfortunately is employed in one
form or another.
Sound of Truth
One paper this week traced an accented and
rhetorical similartv between the recent address
of Prime Minister Attlee, of Great Britain, to
the UNO General Assembly and the famous Get
tysburg Address of Abraham Lincoln.
The feeling here is that while some similarity
is apparent, it is not unusual. Sincerity has
about the same ring every place, and it is a
strange fact that all inspired expression takes a
rhythm and a metre which are universal.
IT
Ill Manners and the Atomic Bomb
Paul C. Smith, editor and general manager of
the San Francisco Chronicle, placed the control
of the atomic bomb squarely on the shoulders of
individuals when he pointed out shortly after
. D'v return from fopr years oVfers^ts rjhfltt fllKe ts
j a direct association between the explosive and
unpredictable human element and the equally
unpredictable threat of atomic power.
Editor Smith traced problems in human rela
tions to the atomic advent, and said that train
ing in manners and control at home are a pre
requisite for the world organization of tomor
rows 111 manners of children, the motorist, the
butcher, the baker, and the customer were viewr
^ed^w^l^amcern^a^a^source of trouble reflect
“This condition,” the veteran declared, “has a
very great and very profound bearing upon the
hazards of the atomic age—because the atomic
bomb is the danger itself only when mixed with
an explosive human behaviorism. Fundament
ally, good manners are nothing more involved
than simple, decent consideration of the rights
of the other fellow.”
Veteran Smith would lessen the danger of this
incendiary element by having individuals adopt
a “pattern of good manners” and stop “living in
dolently on our own fat.” He also declared that
the nation must create high standards of living
internally and seek the widest possible distribu
tion for surplus goods externally.
Concluding, he said, “We must evolve a strong
productive domestic economy, guided by sound,
liberal purpose and sparked by private capital
and individual enterprise. Our economy, to be
effective, must function, must produce, must
provide high standards of life and a full em
ployment of our own people, must insure the
dignity and the freedom and the equality under
law of the individual human being.
Instead of having a costly war at, more or
less, regular intervals, the returned serviceman
would use American productive capacity and
reserves of capital, credit, and technical skill
to help sustain the people of the world in their
own advancement towards their ideals.
Economic Philosophy
By Dorothy Thompson
Either workers must have some of the privi
leges, opportunities and responsibilities of own
ers or increasing numbers of them will vote to
exchange their present bosses for the state.
Since I think that by so doing they will but
permanently confirm their propertyless status,
I am against it.
But if the capitalist system remains a prole
tarian system it won’t be able to compete with
the real or fancied greater security and equality
of state capitalism. It must offer both more
security and greater opportunity.
Having invented a force which can blow the
planet apart, the least science can do is hurry
development of that rocket to Mars, for a quick
getaway.—San Francisco Chronicle.
NOTICE!
Taxes Will Carry Two Per
Cent Penalty On
MARCH 1st, 1946
This Penalty Will Be Added To All Taxes
Unpaid and Inercase Eaeli Month Thereafter
-Special Notice—
ALL LANDS ON WHICH 1945 TAXES HAVE
NOT BEEN PAID WILL BE ADVERTISED
EIRST MONDAY IN MAY, FOR SALE FIRST
MONDAY IN JUNE.
PAY NOW!
Popcorn Affords
Cash On The Side
i As the farmer sweats oi't the Win
! ter period of bad weather and inconr
l 'axe.% k,i!«>v.t';a':d <.u* >i,
1946 crop program, popcorn has pop
ped up as a prospective scree of
“cash on the side” from odd spots of
lard, according to Assistant County
Agent V. A. Honeycutt of Albemarle.
Many Stanly County farmers have
been growing “several” acres of pop
corn during the past two years in
meeting contract orders from a large
seed company, Honeycutt reports, in
dicating that contracts have been re
newed this year and tabbing the crop
as a “paying lerp’-ise.”
hna farm land today is wo'dh about
$50 in the market. M. L. Efird of
Route 4, Albemarle, netted an aver
age of $230 per acre for popcorn
grown in 1945, selling the crop at an
average of about 10 cents per pound.
Previously, Efird has received 12
cents per pound. While the profit
from an acre of popcorn is not fabu
lous, the growing of the crop is “very
little extra trouble,” Honeycutt says,
requiring a minimum of labor at a
time when labor is minimum.
The American appetite for popcorn
is always hardy and demand is ex
pected to continue strong throughout
the country.
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The spinning of yarn and the
weaving of cloth are the bottlenecks
holding up the production of cloth
ing.
NOTICE OF SALE
JWttfo Carolina, Mar*:a County
Under and by virtue of the power
of sale contained in a certain Deed
if Trust executed to the undersigned
trustee by George Ben Ruffin' and
wife, Vare Ruffin, on the 5th day of
May, 1945 and of record in the Pub
lic Registry of Martin County in
Book 4 at page 108, default having
been made in the payment of note
secured by the said deed of trust, the
stipulations in said deed of 'rust not
having been complied with and at
the rer,ues+ of the owner of tht said
.M
1946, at 12 o’clock noon in front of
the Courthouse door in the town of
vVilliamston, N. C., offer for sale to
the highest bidder for cash at public
auction, the following described real
estate, to-wit:
Beginning at Frank Mitchell and
wife, Georgea Mitchell’s corner on
North Broad Street, thence along
North Broad Street to the corner of
James Washington, thence along a
line parallel with Gurganus Street
and perpendicular with North Broad
street 147 feet to the line of Roberta
Brown, thence a line parallel with
North Broad Street to the corner of
Frank Mitchell and wife, Georgia
Mitchell, thence along their line to
the beginning, being a lot facing
North Broad Street 43 and 1/3 feat
wide and 147 feet deep.
This the 16th day of January, 1946.
ELBERT S. PEEL, Trustee.
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MLN*'S
Work Shoes
FOR SALE
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of New Marine Field SlioeS*^SjSte8*
hy inspector for slight imperfections. A
real Work Shoe. Reasonably priced.
Willard’s Shoe Shop
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x FRESH EGGSGrc.dr„A’o^„ge52c
s PEACHES evaporated »*, 35c
APPLE SAUCE^rlSc
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January 31 -- February 1-2
WRIGHTS
i TOMATO
I JUICE
Colonial’s Best
ENRICHED PLAIN FLOUR
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Bag
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SHOE PEG CORN Mftc» 15c
STRINGLESS BEANSSZTc™ 15c
LANG'S PICKLES 'ZSfi? 27c
BLENDED JUICE Dr 5„hi,!fts,„ 17c
STERLING SALT p,aiS.,0br R*"- 6c
Mother’s Coco^ lOc
iiffy Pie Crust 14c
Instant Ralston 21c
Cigarettes <*»«. $1.25
FLORIDA
TREE-RIPENED
SWEET, JUICY
GRAPEFRUIT
ts; 3,or 20c
GREEN BROCCOLI - - lit. 19c
TANGERINES —4 lbs. 29e
FRESH BEETS-211m. 15c
Maine White
POTATOES-1011m. 41c
Medium Size Green
CABBAGE
3 lbs. 12<*
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TEMPLE
ORANGES
5 lbs. 13c
Colonial Fancy
Small Whole
BEETS &.215c
MOTT’S HEALTHFUL
APPLE JUICE <* b„,„ 27c
SENECA BRAND
SAUER KRAUT X,2* 14c
CLAPP’S ASSORTED STRAINED
BABY FOOD &r 7c
HIGH MARK
PANCAKE FLOUR -« 8c
CAKE FLOUR
SWANSDOWN Ur 28c
SOUTHERN MANOR
TEA BAGS ‘'iST1 11c
WITH CHINA
MOTHER’S OATS K5 33c
SUNSWEET
PRUNE JUICE 282 29c
Cl BBS BRAND
SPINACH no.2xc™ 20c
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Palmolive Soap sT " 7c - 2 S£ 19c
Octagon Toilet Soap 3 14c
Lifebuoy Health Soap 3 c*k“ 21c.
Camay Toilet Soap 3 21c
BALLARD’S SHfcSS.. 69c
DAZZLE BLEACH Qt'
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