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Xi~?=| The Farmville Enterprise j?~ i ? I I > ? ? ? i ? i ? x i i i i i i i i I ? r f " ?' . * ? ? ' T .. ? . ? . ^ VOL. TWENTY-FOUR FARMVILLE, PITT COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, APRIL IV UM NUMBER FORTY-NlNE ?, ?? ?'? ? * . ?' 1 ?. ? '? .. - ? ??? CWA Workers Construct . 35,000 Sanitary Privies ? ? I I ? ? Mi I f ? M I ? I I ? I II Project Approved For Pitt County For The Construction of 4,000 Prives; To Date Only 451 Completed The termination of CWA activities in Pitt County on March 29 brought to a close one of the most worth while public health programs ever undertaken on a county-wide basis, for with the passage of the Civil Works Administration into history there was brought to a standstill the pit privy construction work that has been underway for the past several months. The pit privy construction activity has done much to advance the cause of public health, not because of the actual number of privies constructed to date for many more of them are needed, but because the people have beCbme conscious of a need for great er cleanliness of the premises of in dividual households and for improved community sanitation as welL In becoming conscious of a need for a better sanitary enviorment, the in dividual or the community is taking the first step in the great war against disease. The diseases that develop as the direct result of an insanitary environ ment are the so-called filth diseases, chief of which are"typhoid fever, coli tis, dysentery, and hookworm disease, - 4-1 1 xne germs 01 uie iirst uuw ?uu um eggs and organisms of the fourth are expelled in large quantities in the bowel discharges of an afflicted per son and because of this fact, human excrement improperly disposed of is a menace to the health of the citizens of a household or community. Hookworm gain entrance to the in testinal tract of man through the skin and blood stream. Soil that has become contaminated with fecal mat ter from a person afflicted with hook worm is likely to contain myriads of these organisms and their eggs. In order for a person to become infested with such terrible creatures all that is necessary is that the infested soil be trod by bare feet. The hookworm usually enter the body through the skin of the feet, producing what is commonly called "ground itch." Once embedded in the skin the organisms gradually work their way into the blood stream and thence into the in testinal tract. Once established in I the intestines of a person, hookworm [ prevents the proper assimilation of food and causes the victim to lose weight, vitality, and interest in prac tically everything. Hoohworms sap the strength of a person, tear down body resistence and makes the victim an easy prey for the microbes of other diseases. Persons afflicted with hookworm are usually spoken of by their fellowmen, who are ignorant of the cause of their lassitude, as be ing of no-account and good-for-noth ing. The drain upon the resources of relatives and the governments, state, aod local occasioned by hookworm amounts to an appreciable figure war. Children, because of the ? J ? ? I ' shnost universal custom of allowing them to go barefoot during the warm mouths of the year are especially swepectible to the disease. Typhoid fever, dysentery, and the other bacterial or germ disease of the intestinal tract are usually contract ed as the result of a person eating or (hanking' the germs of these ailments. The transfer of germs from human excrement to the body of a well per son is effectuated in a variety of ways. Plies have been found to be saeh an important factor iu spreading disease that many public health woi It ers refer to the inseet as the "typhoid fly" rather than as the "house fly." The house fly usually breeds in stable manure, but is not averse to depositing eggs in human excrement if that is available, and since many rural homes are provided with the ohf fashioned open bade surface privy, or none at all, flies frequently have easy-access to such fikh. After breeding- in or feeding ppon such material, the fly seeks resit from it* Ubor, or change of diet, and alters room of the J nearest bourn. Once inside the fly wipes Ks dirty feet upon the meat, the bread, the milk bottle, the sugar bowl, and everything else in sight, so that the filth from the beck house is thoroughly spread over the food of hi many instances human excre ment Js deposited in utchr.-location with respect to the well or spring from which the family water supply is ektataui that the transfer of fecal _ a ' - A ,v SflOw W Ifiiw grT i ? ' the filth diseases, it is necessary that the body wastes be disposed of effec tively. This can be done, where pub lic or private sewerage systems are not available, only by the use of a fly tight pit privy. The value of the pit privey in protecting the health of the household, or community, should be quite apparent. The State Board of Health has worked hard during the past four months to have as many privies as possible built in each coun ty by CWA workers. Since the inauguration of CWA ac tivities in December, there have been built throughout the length and breadth of North Carolina something over 35,000 pit privies. Trnly a re markable achievement! However, on ly one-tenth of the job of sanitating rural homes has been done, since con servative estimates place the number of rural homes in the state at approx imately 350,000. A tremendous task, therefore, Kes ahead ? As gratifying as are the accom plishments of the privy builders dur ing the past four months, the CWA privy program was not completed. Projects were approved providing for the employment of 13,081 men and the construction of 184?43 priv ies, but due to a alow start in some counties and in others to the almost complete exhaustion of the county quota to other work, the maximum number of men employed on the pro gram in any one week has amounted ao only approximately 3700 men, which i3 roughly 28 per cent of the* number of workers provided by privy projects. The average number of workers for the period would proDa bly be around 2300 or only 17% per cent of the number authorized^y the privy projects. With se-fBW workers, 35,000 privies have been constructed. In Pitt County & CWA project pro viding for the construction of 4000 privies was approved, but of that number only 451 were completed. Much, therefore, remains to-be done. Typhoid fever, dysentery, "summer complaint," and other intestinal di seases could be largely eliminated by safely adequately disposing of hu inaa excrement, which is the mums of these diseases. Pitt County should see to it that the privy construction work is continued until every heme in the eounty is provided with a safe means of human excreta disposal. The construction of sanitary pit privies as a function of the CVA ll been under the direct sepsevMon of the North Carolina State Board of Health. To this state agency was entrusted the task of organizing and training crews of workers in the many counties and-the fact'that 35, 060 privies have been completed is splouBd testimony a* to the efficiency of this state department The work in Pitt County has been under the dfeaet toperrfton of C. C. Martin and L. H. Johnson. ' ? " : . . Catawba growers lave been busy Mrs. Roeseiralt to | Address Institute At Duke June II Tom Sykes Announces First Lady Will Speak on "The Formation of Public Opinion As A Means to Peace" Durham, April 12.?Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt will speak on June 11, the opening' day of the Duke Institute of International Relations, which will be held under the joint auspices of the American Friends Service Com mittee and Duke University, and her subject will be "The Formation of Public Opinion As a Means to Peace," it is announced by Tom Alderman Sykes, of High Point, field secretary of the Institute. In addition to Mrs. Roosevelt the Institute program carries the names of such prominent leaders of thought in this country as Dean Justin Miller, of the Duke University Law School; Dr. Dudley D. Carroll, of the Univer sity of North Carolina; Kirby Page, editor of "The World Tomorrow;" P. A. Martin, of Stanford University; Calvin B. Hoover, authority on Euro pean affairs, and others prominent in the social and economic thought of the* present day. Mrs. Roosevelt will be honored at a dinner to be held at six p. m. at Duke on the ?ght of June 11 and at that time will be greeted by a group of distinguished North Carolinians in ad dition to a number of the leaders on the faculty of the Institute, Mr. Sykes announced. High Points Sean In Congressional Action at Capitol House Approval for In terior Department Con trol of 173 Million Acres Public Domain Washington, April 11.?Further J substantial modification of the stock! market control bill*and house approv-1 al for interior department control-of I 178,000,000 acres of public domain j were high points of congressional ac-1 tion today. In committee drastic marginal re-1 quireraents were >? snipped from the stock exchange measure to give fcd-j thority over that problem to the Ad-1 eral reserve board 'and the proposed commission to regulate the market. What the senate itsel will do J later is uncertain. Just now it was staying on the tax bill, the imxnadi-1 ate focus being "on the Norris amend-1 xnent to give back to the Philippine government all taxes collected on Philippine cocanut oil under the pres ent 3 cent a pound levy. The pubic domain legislation em powers Secretary Ickes to collect fees I for grazing. A part of the modey! collected is to be returned to thel states. Auto Buyers No Longer Criticised The man*who has the -ftjfcnfl to purchase a flewauttrmoWie* and' does so is noluligeithe Tftjte??/<aaBcigm and -derision that he few months ago, soys B. O. Tayliry^Sf the Farmville Motor Co., Terrapisske and j Hudson deata* for this vicinity. I "Through a peculiar - narrow-mind ed type of reasoning1 there Was a period when people felt ashamed to 3 be seen in new automobiles, of for that matter in new clothing," l;says Mr. Taylor. "It did not seem to be realised that those who forebore to buy when they could were actually helping to put people out of work ?* and to make times even hauler. There ' were places in the country where buy ers of new automobiles were actually * stoned and -derided for flaunting their wealth in the faces of their less for- 1 lunate neighbors. , 11 "Fortunately a complete change of 1 attitude* has taken place. It is realiz- ' ed by everyone that only when people 1 buy, will times be good and unem- 1 ployed cease. The fact that this is * so recognised now as compared with riie attitude of a few months ago ? shows that we have all had a very 1 useful season in fundamental econo- - mica ,-j i mj RevlsedLeaf Figires Are I Givem 'Okay' ? I - " Government Puts Its Stamp of Approval on 2&Q Contracts for this County Greenville, April 11.?-EL P. Arnold, dimeter of-the Pitt County Dopnrt ment of Agriculture, mid today that all revised tobacco contracts in this county had b?en approved by the government and were being mailed out to farmers as rapidly as possible. There were 2,600 contracts revised at order of the Agricultural Adjust ment administration, involving about 90 per cent of the farms in this county, the farm head said. Along with the contracts, farmers are being mailed notices of how many acres they can plant under the gov ernment program and -how rndch land must remain idle. Also the amount of money they received for acreage rental is contained on the blanks. -Mr. Arnold was to leave ?or Ral eigh this afternoon with a batch of 1,550 cotton contracts to be gone over by the State Board of Review with a view to determine whether or not a revision is necessary. Should a 'revision be ordered, the farm di rector said the campaign would get under way immediately so that far mers would be provided with acreage figures by planting time. The Farm Department was recent ly commended by an official of the Agricultural Adjustment Administra tion for the complete reports turned iir for the tobacco campaign. The re ports were described as the most com plete received by the committeemen and office force of the farm office. IVo Men Lose Lives In Dynamite Explosion ? Greenville, April 10.?Elias Craw jrd end Edward Sutton, ages about 55 and 30, respectively, of the Prog Level community of Pitt County, were killed accidentially this ater noon about 4 o'clock by an explo sion of dynamite. The two men were on Crawford's farm dynamiting stumps and just had brought a bucketful of dyriirtrite caps to the scene of their work. As they placed the bucket on the ground, the caps exploded unexpectedly. Their bodies were mangled badly by the explosion which threw them about 50 feet in the air. Crawford was a married man with a family. Sutton was not married. Goldsboro Men Mistaken For DiUinger And Crew ' ' ? " al ? ?' "ij ' i '1. * k*. 1 , Covered .with Machine Gun and Surrounded by Police in Richmond i Mistaken for John Dillinger and his gang, four of Goldsboro's leading citizens inv Richmond Fridhy found -fry 'police and tooktag-ifclto the hnaineBs end of a machine gun covering them men acingly. , Bob Stevens and Ben Lewis of- A H. Weil' and Brothers and A. <3.; 3 Hodges of the Hub Hardware drove to Richmond to attend a meeing in the interest of an implement deal- A en* code. ; The meeting was set for the Richmond Hotel. They drove around I the Wedenl-reserve baidc-twice look ing for a place to park, a couple of them watching one aide the Street and the other two watching the dther side,'hanging out the windows Bee, j ramHr thfey parked at-a lot in the rear of the Reserve bank. Aa they lift they went out the rear entrance, anddown the alley thj; bed otJBfjm. t^ey noted several them. '-4$??' SSjlg <? < \ Three tee later came Back i fram^ them . ^ code meeting. Stevens ^ I 'Ks(t ci086(i 111 OH f | sternly demanded the leader of the officers, eyeing the three. I ?Mr. Hodges stepped forward. I "Where's your auto license-card?" ttked the officer. The Goldiboro hardware man produced it, but his hand trembled just a little. I^Ben Lewis happened to look out just then and there was an auto mobile parked as if for a quick get away, and out of it a machine gun jamtied at ther Gcldsboro men. [-^Another car of ctfffeers was a few feet away. The*tall Federal reserve bank building towered iiRfe the phrking lot. Lewis noted that the windows were packed with people. Word had gbne out that the police hid spotted John Dillinger and his gang in a c*r Gold&boro HOense and that they wore set to feipe them out if they mdkie a move. ?"Well, there's a mistake," said the Mm in charge of the officers, after) he had examined Mr. Hodges'-card. "We thought Lewis here looked tdie John Dillinger and that you Mr. HOdgea looked like Ms first lieuten ant. You know he has been re ported headed this way, and you Mfe>w too that right here's where the fefck-up men got that big pile of jack fife other day. "We've been shadowing -youover ?Ice you parked. You fiiOfcaixm* ed suspicion by the way you -drove around the bank twice. We've call ed Raleigh and found it was Mr. Edges' car, then*we called Golds bOTo and found Mr. Hodges was sup posed to be hi Richmond. But jou know Dillinger could have taken the lat away from on the way here. Sor ry to have inconvenienced you." He Hiuted and turned on Ms heel. The tor with the machine -gun moved I "That machine gun certainly was a -big looking thing pointed^ $k:i me StiU pale from their experience the first Lady Denies Mention ofWirt Mrs. Roosevelt Gives Her Views in Response to Questions ? Washington, April 11.?Mrs. Frank lin IX Roosevelt today contradicted the contention of Dr. William A. Wirt that the subsistence homestead pro ject at Reedsville, W. Va., is a com munistic effort. The wife of the President gave her vie#s in response to questions- at a White House conference with news paperwomen. . A while before Dr. Wirt?on a visit to the capital?had been told the house investigating committee desires no further testimony from him and he was free to return to his Gary, In diana, home. The inquiry will resume next Tues day with the appearance of the six persons named by Wirt as having attended a September dinner in Vir ginia at which he testified he heard talk of revolutionary plotting. Oxford Orphange Singing Class Here April 18th " j The Singing Class of the Offord Orphanage will pay its annual visit to Farmville on Wednesday evening, April-18, giving a concert in the High School auditoirium at 8:00. The local committee in charge, with Chief J. L. Taylor as its head is confident that the effort to make the forthcoming visit of the Class a suc cess, as well as a blessing to the com munity, will receive the usual hearty cooperation of citizens here. 4-H CLUB TAKES HONORS IN CONTEST Members of the Farmville 4-H Club, their sponsor, Miss Alice Cog gins, director, Miss Vivian Case and , accompanist, Mrs. Haywood Smith, are being congratulated upon the suc cess scored by them in the County wide 4-H Club contest held in Green ville, Thursday evening, when the local organization won first place in the Southern group of songs, scoring 98, and taking second place in the j Everyday group, in which they re- ; ceived a similar score. ( There were eight schools compet- i ing with each having its choice of two of the seven songs groups. i Members of the local 4-H Club in- , elude: Olive Gray Lewis, Edith and Catherine Teel, Geraldine Gardner, , Annie Daniels Lewis, Ethel Murphrey, Mary Elizabeth Smith, Cora Lee Pat terson, Martha Rasberry, Rebecca Wheless, Reide and Eva Mae Hardy, Fanny Cobb Barrett, Annie Mae Ward, Elvira Tyson, Annie Laurie Jdyner, Martha Cobb, Annie Nicholi, Sula Carr, Ruth Hayes Turnage, Frances Joyner and Jean Horton. - j A similar event, though State-wide in its Scope, will be the State Glee Club contest, to be held in Greenville } Saturday morning, and in which the } B0g; School Glee Club is scheduled to , compete, rnder the direction of Miss j Vivian Case and with piano accom- , paniment by Mrs. Haywood Smith. ] - ? - - ? * Renewed interest and a greater en- 1 ?thusiaam have been aroused in this . group since the achievement of the ' 4-H Club on Thursday evening, and , the entire corns of twenty contest ants, to which it is limited, is eager ? for the day to arrive. These include: ? Sopranos?Reide Hardy, Virginia , Harris, Frances Joyner, Nathlie ( IVottght, Martha flSJfeberry, Ruth Hart, Ethel Murphrey, Mary Louise Ward, Annie " Mae Ward, Mary Elizabeth Smith, Cora Lee Patterson, Helen Willis, and Virginia SpelL Altos? Louise Harris, Ruth Hayes Turnage, t Is&ky Wheless, Frances Cutchins, ; Eva Mae Hardy, Fanny Cobb Barrett, ? Jean Horton and Elvira Tyson. 1 MERRY MATRONS I Mrs. B. S. Smith waavgracious hos- a tess to the Merry Matrons and to a 1 number of other friends on Tuesday afternoon, at her home on Contenfcnea i street, in which iris and daffodils ? were used with pleasing effect i Mrs. J. W. Lovelace, clubprtsMtat, j presided during the short business < session, at which time the-Merry Ma- ] trdns voted to contribute to the Per- ' kins Hall curtain fund. < Continuing its-series of programs on patriotic leadership, the club en joyed a talk by Mrs. J. I. Morgan on Commander Semites. A short ac- , count of the recent occasion of the ; United States fleet leaving the Pacific 1 Coast was given by Mrr^Lovelace, 1 -A delectable salad course war- Serv- j ed after adjournment Additional guests of the hostess were: Mm E. C. Baaman, Mrs. Robert Lee Smith, i Mm F. M. Davis, Mm .Barbour, and Miss Edna Foust Harris, pf g1 . . i. .'Vftrit '.I ?. II | I/mg time crop rotations are being encouraged in Washington county bf V?. V. Hayes, farm agent E? C. '< Blair,^ate^ College agronomist, has 20,800 Tobacco Rectal Checks Being Written Accounting Section Of The A. A. A. Began Writing Checks for This State Raleigh, April 11.?Rental checks in-payment for reducing the tobacco acreage by 30 per cent should be gin to arrive in North Carolina by Thursday, April 12, E. Y. Floyd of State College, was informed yester day afternoon by the tobr-cco section of the Agricultural Adjustment Ad ministration. Mr. Floyd was advised that ' the accounting section of the AAA be gan to write checks for this State yesterday and that some -20,000 would be written probably at once. These checks are for contracts which have passed the local and county committees, have been approved by the state reviewing office and have passed all Washington requirements. The checks will be sent to county farm agents and then d> stri'uted to those farmers so fortunate as to have their contracts approved, Mr. Floyd said. He stated that the contracts from a large number of counties were still being checked in the reviewing office at State College, where errors were being corrected and the con tracts studied as to acreage and pro duction claims. The contracts from some 18 other counties still are in the counties due to overrun above the county average in both acreage and production. Until these have been satisfactorily adjusted, the contracts cannot be passed upon by the state reviewing office and for warded to Washington. Mr. Floyd said yesterday he was hopeful that all the contracts would be cleared shortly and that the rental checks and equalization pay ments Would start coming to tobacco growers in considerable numbers. Many farmers are protesting to his office that their farming plans for this year are being ppset by the de lays occuring. While most of these delays are due to errors and over-claims in the contracts, Mr. Floyd states that these are being cleared up radily. BABY CONTEST BEING SPONSORED BY WOMAN'S CLUB A Baby Contest to decide the most attactive child in town, from six months to five years, is being spon sored by the Ways and Means com mittee, of the Woman's Club, ^rith Mrs. D. R. Morgan, as its head. A five cent piece will put your candidate for the coveted honor in the race and additional votes may be cast for a penny each. A loving cup, which is :>n display in the window of the Whe less Drug Co., will go to the winner of the contest, which promises to be a hard rfice as there are ad many at tractive children here within the stat ed range of months and years. Beginning Monday, April 16, votes may be obtained from Woman's Club members who will have them on sale at both Wheless' and the City Drug Company. BUFFET SUrPER Thursday evening Misses Edna Robinson and Janie Davis were charming hostesses at a buffet sup per, entertaining the teachers of the High School and the husbands and wives of those who are married, num bering thirty, at the home of Mrs. J. L Morgan on Church street. The home was attractively decorat ed with spring flowers, iris, narcisus, and crabapple predominating. Dinner was served at 6:00 o'clock, barbecue and Dutch salad being serv ed by the hostesses at 'either aid of a beautifully appointed table centered cvith an effective arrangement of mix ed flowers, flanked by four silver candlesticks holding yellow candles. Mrs. Morgan assisted in serving ice :ream and angel cake. U. D. C. Mrs. I. E. Satterfield was hostess on Friday afternoon, entertaining the Daughters of the ' Confederacy, Re becca Winbourne Chapter, her home bring attractively decorated with many lovely spring flowers. Mrs. W. M. Willis presided and Mrs. B. 0. Turaage conducted the devotional period. The members enjoyed an interest ing paper presented by Mrs. G. M. Holdsn on Alexander Hamilton Stephens. A contest on Confederate generals enlivened the social hour, with tfe prise plaque going to The Tttfifrst served dtifeMg t'"' Problems of Tobacco Growers Discussed . Agreement Would Be Retroactive to Dec. 1, 1933 and Would Con tinue Until Next May 15th Washington, April ? 11.?Problems of tobacco growers cooperative asso ciations were discussed today at a farm administration hearing on a pro posed marketing agreement for buy ers of stemming tobacco, gardens of domestic cigar leaf used for scrap chewing and smoking tobacco. Under the agreement 4 compan ies?Block Brothers, Leggett and Myers Tobacco Co.; P. Lorillard Co., and Scotten Dillon Company? would contract to buy a total of 18, 500,000 pounds of this type of leaf during the present marketing season. Under the proposed agreement the buyers would pay for "unsweated" tobacco six cents if purchased direct from growers and 6% cents if pur chased from cooperative associations. The price for "sweated" tobacco would be 8% cents a pound. These prices would be the average required by the buyers for their purchases this year. The agreement would be retroact ive to December i, 1933 and would continue until next May 15th. It was suggested at the hearing, however, that the date for expiration of the agreement be moved up to June 30 to give buyers sufficient time to complete the purchases required. Sykes Speaks to Retariaas At Inter-City Meet Farmville Club Has One Hundred Per Cent At tendance Farmville Rotarians registered 100 per cent at the Inter-City Meet held in Greenville, Monday, evening of this week, with Bill Smith handling the gavel, and Bob Boyd, president of the local club, together with heads of the Ayden and Washington groups, responding to the welcoming ad-. dress. .Carl Adanis of the host club greeted the guests Kincfien Cobb, president of the Greenville organization, which also attended 100 per cent, presented Leon Powell, a transfer from the Durham club, as a new member and Alva Van Nortwich of E. C. T. C., as Junior "Rotarian for the month. A program of song in two parts was enjoyed by the Rotarians led by Bill Lee and accompanied by Mrs. Ray Tyson, the Greenville club pian ist, and by Ed Harding-of the Wash ington club, with his accordion* The speaker of the occasion, Tom Sykes, of High Point, candidate for District Governor, was Introduced by Mayriard Fletcher of the Washington blub. JYiaiung tne siaiemem- uiuv, iuc danger for American is not from out side but inside," Mr. Sykes in his ad dress on the subject of "The Future of Rotary," considered the problems of this country and the Way to "come through." Bernard Shaw, 'Bertrand Russell and H. L. Mencken of the school of 'cock-sureness' would have been days without column material if they had not had Rotary ethics to poke fun at. But now that this group has been completely deflated, and all of us have come down to earth, Rotary ethics and principles will come in and contribute for the world's salvation collective sanity, decency and cooperation. "There must be a change of hearts along the line of Rotary ideals before we can have a changed social scene. Secretary of Agriculture Wal lace and Roosevelt are sounding . the need of an ethical code first suggest ed by Rotary," Mr. Sykes declared. "America has more resources than our ancestors who returned to a ruin ed country after the Civil war. They had nothing left but faith in God and faith in each which was manifested in old fashioned neighborliness. Yet people think this country is at the bottom. "Think of the problems of Ufe. We are going to come down to earth be fore we can 'come through.' There are still a few who must be deflated. The crowd has come down to their real place now. We are bumble in High Point Come to see us some time. We will not high-hat you. We are down to earth." marshmallow salad," sandwiches, a variety of pickles, doffee and hotoe madr'caridiee, "'W ' : The revision of cotton and tobacco