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Hon. J. Whitten Speaks To Farm Bureau Members (Continued from page 7) not be growing wheat in this na tion. but would have to import it. If or periodically disease has struck down the wheat which we plant and it is only by the development of resistant varieties that we have been enabled to keep up our prod :et:on • f this important food. “We must wage the battie a Itainsl diseases being brought in from other areas " Declaring that it was a relief to get away front all the talk about communism in Washington, the speaker commended the Farm Bureau for its work, explaining that it had gone into the indus trial areas and cities and got help to support farm programs He praised the work of the 4-H club boys and girls and the Future Farmers of America, and all other groups that were working for the good of agriculture Apparently impressed by the line stock exhibited at the show last Friday, Congressman Whitten <aid. "If today all the cattle we nave in this country were the types which our early forefathers nad, we would not have half enough meat The same is true if corn, wheat, hogs, cotton, fruit, ind of practically everything con nected with agriculture. In our country we take such progress for granted, but behind it is the con tinual stud\. research and ex periment led by our splendid De partment of Agriculture." Congressman Whitten s talk was well received Following the bar becue, he left with Congressman Winston, also ol Mississippi, Con gressman Bonner and a party for i short fishing trip at Nags Head President Chas. L. Daniel of the county Farm Bureau, presid ed over tilt' meeting. u. s. gold The sold holdings oi the U. S .fovcrnment have declined more months since the forgien cur rency revaluations last Septem ber. The chief cauc for the with drawals has been improvement in the balance of international accounts which is taking the pres sure off foreign countries to send -iiold here to pay for goods and enabling them to rebuild reserves with gold from this country Trea sury records show that U. S hold ings — still about three-l'ifths of he whole world'.- stock of mone tary gold are down to $114.1120, 100,000. about the same as a year ago. Massive Conerete Piers Rising High Th( Bupgs Island Dam construction is progressing at a rapid rate as may be seen by the above photograph showing the massive concrete piers rising high in the air above the construction trestle. In the background may be seen the concrete mixing plant and one of the huge Gantry construction cranes used for handling all of the material used in the construction activities. Reviews History Of Formosa and Current Problem Ft«*r\lliiii” In Breenl W Kxri'|»l I lie FmillOMUllS -<9, Landrum Bolling, New York newspaperman, interestingly re viewed the history of and discuss ed current problems in Formosa in the following story, released a short tunc ayo: In all the hullabaloo over For mosa. one factor seems to have been overlooked entirely the Formosans. On the reeorri, there is not the slightest evidence that the (>.000,000 residents of that is land want to be ruled by either the Chinese Nationalists or the Chinese Communists. In fact, the\ don t. If the United Nations had only hem able to Ret beyond the de batiriR society staye by now. this explosive issue could be taken in hand and a solution found which would serve both tin interests of the people and the interf-xts of peace Such a solution would al most surely provide for substan tial Formosan independence un der perhaps some form of interna tional trusteeship. But that, of course, would be too simple and too reasonable, and this is an age of unreason when we like to do things in as complicated a way as possible. The complicated thing is to have the Chinese Communists and Nationalists move their war from j the Asiatic mainland to that trop ical island, and have the U. S. and the Soviet Union hover about in the background making warlike gestures at each other. A lot more people, naturally, will be killed before a settlement to the conflict is reached along this road. But go back and consider the Formosans for a moment. Most of them, to be sure, are of Chinese origin, and the mainland coast is only 90 miles away. But on main land officials have ruled over j them in more than f>0 years or hadn't until Chiang Kai-shek’s troops arrived in 1945. What has; happened since then has not made the Formosans love their big brothers from China proper. The garrison troops, as so often happens with garrison troops, be haved abominably. They looted and raped and kicked the civilian population around. Thu new ad ministrative officials brought ,along the customary Kuomintang traditions of shameless graft and clumsy ineffecieney. It did not take the Formosans long — so many observers have reported— to decide that the Japanese hadn't been so bad, after all. As a matter of fact, it is the long period of Japanese rule which makes Formosa a very spe SINCLAIR BUILDS NEW PIPELINES TO HELP MEET RECORD OIL DEMAND MORE OIL BY PIPELINE. Faced by an unprecedented public demand for petro-' leum products, Sinclair Refining Com pany is going all-out to increase deliveries to motorists and fuel oil users. As part of Its great $150,000,000 expansion pro-, gram. Sinclair is adding hundreds of miles Cl.pipeline.to its already existing lines. Somenew Sinclair lines are already speeding gasoline and fuel oil over th« all-weather route from refineries to key delivery points. Moreover, Sinclair is also enlarging its refining capacity and inten sifying its search for new crude supplies^ In the future as in the past, look to Sinclai* for Better Products, Better Service. | N. C. GREEN, AGENT 1 WILL1AMST0N, N. C. cial case in the postwar China story. Japan acquired Formosa in 1895 at the end of the Sino-Jap i anese war, and after a short-lived Formosan republic had been put out of business. The Japanese promptly set out to develop the is land as a long-term proposition. In deference to local custom, they made the Chinese term Taiwan the official name. And they did a lot of other things that pleased the natives. They built schools and hospitals, railroads and highways. They modernized the agriculture and set up sugar refineries. The Japa- ; nese were, of course, primariy in j business for themselves and they I found this to be a rich possession. ! j They developed coal, copper and | gold mining; they found oil; they 11 undertook vast lumbering opera-iI tions in the extensive camphor, pine and hard-wood forests. * In 50 years the Japanese took | an enormous amount of wealth | out of Formosa, but they also raised the economic standards of the people. And, strangely enough, under the Japanese they had acquired1 more and more local self-govern ment, so that when the Chinese "liberators" arrived the Formos-|l ans actually received, in a sense,! a comparative set-back toward colonialism. During these past! five years on Formosa there has! been not one “independence” movement to throw out the Chi- • ang Kai-shek authorities, but three. And not one of the three has been Communist. 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