WASHINGTON COUNTY RANKS 85th
IN THIS STATE WITH TOTAL OF 5.952
YOUNG FOLK BELOW VOTING AGE
Figures Are Given of Other
Nearby Counties For
Comparison Purpose
North Carolina has gained another
first among the states with figures
compiled by the Bureau of the Census
in ]940's nation-wide census reveal
ing the state as number one among
the forty-eight states in the youth
fulness of its population.
The 1940 census indicates that for
ty-six per cent of North Carolina's
population, 1.642,947 persons of its
3,571,623 total population, is under
21 years of age.
Washington county ranks 45th in
North Carolina in percentage of you
th population under 21 years of age
and 85th in numerical youth popula
tion under 21 years of age. according
to figures compiled by the Bureau of
the Census.
Washington county has a youth
population under voting age of 21
years of 5.952 or 48.3 percent of the
county's total population of 12,323
as recorded in the 1940 census.
Figures for other nearby counties
are as follows: Tyrrell county. 46.9
per cent, 2.606: Hyde county, 46.9
per cent, 3,686: Beaufort county, 46.1
per cent, 16,795: Martin county, 51.7
per cent, 13,499; and Bertie county,
50 per cent, 13.101.
It is an accepted fact that higher
birth rates occur in those counties
ANSWER
Dried fruits, as well as vegetables,
probably will bring a partial answer
to the problem of tin shortage for
cans, says U. S. Department of Agri
culture experts.
Eighteen destroyers and 13 subma
rines were launched by the Navy dur
ing 1941.
and states with large ratios of farm
population. North Carolina’s farm
population percentage of 46 4 is there
fore closely related to its youth popu
lation of 46 per cent under 21 years
of age.
The highest per cent of total popu
lation under 21 years is found in Cas
well county with 53.2 per cent and
the lowest is almost next door in ur
ban Durham county, with 38.2 per
cent. Caswell ranks fourth in per
centage of population classed as agri
cultural and Durham ranks ninety
eighth in this respect. Likewise.
Greene county is third in youth popu
lation and wirst in farm population.
In a world in which most nations,
including the United States, are
steadily growing older. North Caro
lina's population is steadily growing
younger. In fact sixty-eight North
Carolina counties exceed the state
wide average of 46 per cent under 21
years of age ,and 25 counties have
a youth population of 50 per cent or
more.
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ON TRIAL FOR HER LIFE
Ginger Rogers as "Roxie Hart" is not at all bothered in the 20th
Century-Fox Comedy at the Plymouth Theatre today and tomorrow.
That's Adolphe Menjou (left) and George Montgomery with her.
THE Public FORUM
MOTHERS DAY
One of the least you read about,
and one of the most significant of our
national days, is Mother's Day.
America's modern method of ob
serving the day is only about 28 years
old.
May the 9th, 1914. President Wil
son issued a proclamation, urging the
adoption of the idea conceived by
Miss Anna Jarvis, following the death
of her own mother.
Thus the second Sunday in May
was sets apart as Mother's Day.
Flags were to be raised in honor
of it .and flowers to be worn in mem
ory of mothers.
Also a deed of kindness as a duty
of the day should be done for one’s
own mother if possible, or to some
mother who, perchance, had no one
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT says, "Fighting men of
our Armed Forces, workers in industry, the fami
lies of these workers, every man and woman in
America, must have nourishing food."
Government records show that a third of our
people are ill-fed; they are not getting their plenty
of good food which we grow in abundance. Total
defense is not an "either-or" proposition. It is not
a question of guns OR butter but of guns AND
butter.
Protect precious minerals and vitamins . . . save
time and effort and money ... by cooking elec
trically. Now, as always, electric cookery is fast,
clean, safe, modern and economical—just like elec
tric light!
You owe it to yourself and your family to help
strengthen our nation through better nutrition. Join
a nutrition class in your community. Learn all the
facts about "Food for Freedom" and try to include
these in your meals every day—
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Flea Beetles Breed
In Old Undestroyed
Tobacco Plant Beds
Entomologist Uurges Farm
ers to Plow Old Beds
To Destroy Beetles
Here’s a note of warning to tobac
co growers of North Carolina from
Dr. B. B. Fulton. State College ento
mologist. He urges farmers to scrape,
plow or harrow their old tobacco
beds after transplanting to the field
has been completed.
"Tobacco plant beds are the pre
ferred breeding grounds for flea
beetles," Dr. Fulton says. "Scraping,
plowing or harrowing the old plant
bed will destroy thousands of flea
beetle larvae and reduce injury to
newly-set plants.”
The entomologist explained that
beetles that breed in plant beds move
to the newly-set plants in the field,
where they feed on the leaves and lay
large number of eggs in the soil neai
the tobacco plants. Tiny wormlike
larvae hatch and feed on the roots
This movement of beetles from the
plant beds continues as long as there
are any plants left in the beds.
‘‘Tobacco plants are tender, as all
farmers know," Dr. Fulton declared.
"The usual shock of uprooting and
transplanting, plus the double-bar
reled attack of flea beetles on leaves
and roots, weakens the transplants,
causes permanent stunting, and ac
tually kills a large number of the
plants.
"Tests show that the best method
to kill the flea beetle larvae in tobac
co plants, and then scrape the soil to
a depth of two to three inches. An
other good way is to plow and harrow
the plant beds. Plowing alone is help
ful, but some larvae are not killed un
less the beds are harrowed or scrap
ed.”
Tlie State College entomologist
said that "an ounce of prevention at
this season of the year is worth many
pounds of cure after the flea beetles
have attacked the tobacco plants in
the field.’’
Farmers May Apply
For Tires, Recaps
For Hauling Crops
However, Farmer Must Use
Vehicle Almost Exclu
sively for Hauling
Farmers can quality for new or re
capped tires, providing they use their
trucks or cars to haul produce to and
from the market. Dean I. O. Schaub,
director of the State College Exten
sion Service, said in discussing the
tire-rationing system.
"The farmer who uses his truck ex
clusively to transport farm products
and food to market, and to carry
needed home supplies to the farm, is
eligible for new tires and tubes," the
agricultural leader explained. "This
includes the transportation of fuel
for farm machinery, fertilizers, and
feeds to the farm. On the other hand,
no new tires will be sold to farmers
for trucks that are used to carry pro
ducts to housewives or other ultimate
consumers.”
Dean Schaub said that the term
"truck” Includes pick-ups. Farmers
are eligible to get new tires for their
tractors and other farm implements,
providing they are not changing from
steel wheels to rubber tires.
Turning next to the eligibility of
farmers to receive recapped tires, the
Extension director said: "Farmers
who use their passenger cars to haul
produce to and from market because
to remember her on this day, which
honors all mothers here and beyond.
Our martyred President, McKin
ley, always wore a white carnation in
honor of his mother, who had long
before “crossed the bar."
So this favorite flower was chosen
as our national Mother's Day badge,
white for the dead and red for the
living.
The carnation is the most purely
fragrant and lasting flower that
blooms, therefore symbolizing how
pure and lasting our love should be
for each other. The observance of
Mother's Day is each year more
widely interpreted. Special boxes of
candy, fruit and useful presents of
different kinds are dispatched for the
pleasure of mother. While on the
mounds of departed mothers, flowers
are placed as a token of honor to
her memory.
People who are living in this cen
tury haven't entirely departed from
early tradition.
This, like other festivals, may be
traced to ancient times. In England,
the people once observed the third
Sunday of Lent as Mother’s Day.
Children who were away from home
were required to visit parents, es
pecially mothers, on this particular
day, carrying present of different
kinds. This was one way of keeping
aglow filial family ties.
Long ago in Asia Minor, Rhea,
"Great Mother of the God," was wor
shipped. She was portrayed as trav
eling in a lion-drawn chariot, and
her emblems were the lion, the oak
and pine trees.
So we see that it was majesty and
might celebrated in her. and not
mother love, although mother love
is indeed older than the Christian
faith.
In Greece and Rome these rights
were associated with the feast of Hi
laria. held on the Ides of March
This, like other pagan festivities, has
been supplanted by the church since
the Christian ages.
So let’s all observe the sacredness
of Mother’s Day
SADIE LEE FAGAN.
Dardens, N. C.
All-Comedy Cast In
Rollicking Romance
Young Newlyweds
“This Time For Keeps”
Stars Robert Sterling,
Ann Rutherford
" ®
Average American family life and j
the troubles of newlyweds combine to \
make a merry mixture of comedy, ro- j
mance and tender human interest in
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s "This Time
for Keeps,” satire on youthful mar
they have no other practical means
of transportation, are eligible to have
tires recapped or to buy recapped
tires. This eligibility also applies to
farm workers and technicians who
use their- passenger cars to travel
within and to and from farms essen
tial to the war effort."
nage at, the Plymouth theatre, Sun
day,
Love spats and various family com
plication.1-- furnish abundant- hilarity,
with Ann Rutherford and Robert
Sterling as the young couple about
whose woes the laughs center.
The story opens after the honey
moon. The first spat occurs when
Sterling fails to notice Ann’s new
hat. There are more complications
when papa-in-law makes the bride
groom his business partner. Well
intentioned in-laws add to the tur
moil, and the bride’s younger sister
precipitates more laughter when she
tries to glamorize her pigtails and
vamp another sister’s beau.
Miss Rutherford handles the do
mestic situations cleverly and quar
rels with gusto; Sterling, as the earn
est young husband, has full scope for
remedy. Virginia Weidler, as the ob
streperous younger sister, has a com
edy role that she makes the most of,
and Guy Kibbee and Irene Rich, as
the parents-in-law, do their share in
adding to the laughs.
WE KNOW
1VAUV to recondition your car and prevent it
aging prematurely . . . especially now
1B1IPH your present automobile must last
for the duration of the war ....
Proper washing, greasing and keeping
the oil changed will add years of usefulness
to your car . . . Drive in—for service!
Keel's Service Station
E. Durand Keel, Prop. Phone 214-6
NOTICE
Those Wishing To Make Payments To the
Plymouth
Building and Loan Association
or who wish to transact any other busi
ness with the association should see
Miss Helen Bratten
In C. E. Ayer’s Office, Washington Street
WHO IS THE NEW
SECRETARY and TREASURER
OF THE ORGANIZATION
The most important job our railroads
have to do is to keep war machines mov
ing! Each week to come, they'll be needed
more and more for that job—which means
they may not be free at all by next fall, for
transportation of such civilian needs as
coal. That’s why we advise you to place
your coal order at once! It’s the only way
to insure a healthfully, comfortably warm
home or office building next winter!
P HONE
Z37-1
ROANOKE COAL CO.
S. D. DAVIS WATER STREET