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Annual Report D, A. R.
Chapter Reflects Credit
?* in I ..
Major Benjamin May
Chapter Has Splendid
Report; State and Na
tional Dues Paid In
Full; Activities and
Achievements On High
Plane
Of mutual interest and justifiable!
pride to the entire community and
State of North Carolina is the out
standing record of the Farmville
Chapter, Major Benjamin May,
Daughters of the American Revolu-1
tion. With a membership drawn
from the women of distinction in j
Eastern North. Carolina this group
reflects culture and high endeavor
for the whole State as the following
report of this year's activities will
indicate:
State and National dues paid
in full 1989-40 $160.00
Building & Loan 360.00
Tyson plate and gift of money 350.00
Colonial banquet table, me
morial to Mrs. Penelope
May Keel, gift of her sons. 175.001
Colonial sofa, gift of Mrs.
J. C. Eagles 250.00
Pictures and Christmas do
nation 11.00
Insurance and Plumbing 183.00
Planting expenditures 35.00
Cleaning and servant hire for
Chapter House 25.00
Gifts of additional china and
kitchen equipment 25.00
Year Books 15.00
Christmas decorations 5.00
. Fuel donated 75.00 j
Antique andirons 5.00
Miscellaneous donations 75.00
Lights and Walter 45.00 j
Chapter dues par capita 53.00
$1847.00
Augmenting this magnificent rec
ord of figures are those "Intangibles"
which give awe to any organization:
A spirit of harmony and high en
deavor, permeating all purpoees, plans
r>t otwifiwco,
A splendid year's study of National
Problems and Pblicfee:
Entertainments radiating a glow of
elegance;
Most significant of all were the
inspiring devotionals, based on
"Knowing God"?the power of His
attributes and the sustaining assur
ance of His presence.
The officers and membership can
fed with sincere pride that they are
achieving a proud performance.
Br. W. I. Wooten
Officially Announces
For Legislature
Dr. W. L Wooten, of Greenville,
president end superintendent of the
Pitt General hospital for the past 10
yeits and widely known as a physi
cian and surgeon, today formally an
nounced his candidacy for the State
House oi Afprasentatrves. net coun
I ty has two members in the House.
I JK. Wooten was born and reared
I county and educated at
M*ty College, Durham, now Duke
UHfcarfty. He taught echoo! two
? following his gzadoation at
Oifte, then entered the de
I psrtment of the University of North
U CjgeHni and later received his M. D.
I at Jefferson Medical College, Phila
I delphia.
I f Hti?aCpmtfce ^
I taraf tfte I^^te Wooten, and they
I Ha is a meab%cf the Jarvis Me
I bar of the board ^fcewards, a mem
I her <rf the Ha.fc.1j4 orator; Shriner;
I Ch-BTOWC0Ba3rN PC?hMtoti
H BMVwt'-' nA0Vt ? tnamflAP. ?
fifteen ywrs.
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P^ C^ewiiiilty -IIseidtal in Green
?
Lurch Reem Nates
Total of 140 Children
Served Daily; 20 Un
derweights Given Milk
Twice Daily
Mrs. Claude L. Barrett, president
of the Parent-Association, which is
co-sponsor with the WPA in the
school lunch room project here, and
members of the committee, Mrs. R
LeRoy Rollins, lbs. R. S. Soott and,
Superintendent J. H. Moore, who have
been active in getting the venture
underway, met with Mrs. Jennie!
Flanagan, head of the lunch room
and faculty member* on Friday after
noon for a discussion of plans rela
tive to its successful operation.
Members of the school board and
their wives were special guests at
the lunch room on Wednesday, and
remained to see the children served.
And two of tiie faculty members
have lunched each day this week at i
the school dining room for observa
tion purposes.
An average of 90 free lunches are
served to undernourished children
daily, with around 50 paid-lunches
being served. Milk is being given
twice daily to 20 underweight chil
dren, with records of progress being
kept.
Menus For The Week of March 4:
MONDAY
Soup, crackers, graham muffins
with raisins, stewed apples 10c.
(Milk 5c; Ice cream 5e; sandwiches j
5c; soup and crackers 6c ? served
daily). J
TUESDAY
Meat loaf, tomato sauce, parsley
potatoes, cream sauce, apple salad,
graham muffins 10c.
WEDNESDAY
Meat balls and spaghetti, slaw,
corn bread 10c.
THUBSDAY
Soup, corn meal muffins, apple
jacks 10c.
FRIDAY
White beans with pork, turnip
greens, corn bread, apple 10c. .
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I M^t Wednesday. I
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Loan to Finland
Scores Approval
Of Lower House
Representatives, How
ever, Sly Away Prom
Casting Record Vote
on Measure; Fear Elec
tion and Neutrality
Angles
Washington, Feb. '??.?ine Mouse
today voted to help Finland to the
extent of a $20,000,000 loan for non
military purchases in the United
States, but shied away, emphatically
from taking a record vote on the
question.
Although overwhelmingly in favor
of helping the Finns, many mem
bers feared that European events
might take audi a turn that a vote
for the loan oonld bring them elec
tion-time difficulties. So, by a gen
eral, but tadt agreement, paaaage
came on a rising ballot It showed
168 for the bill and 51 against, the
total a bare quorum of the House.
The measure would add $100,000,000
to the lending funds of the Export
Import Bank, with the understand
ing that $20,000,000 of that amount
would go to Finland^ and a like
sum to China. At no point in the
measure is Finland mentioned di
rectly.
Previously passed by the Senate,
the bill now goes back to that branch
for action on House amendments
forbidding Export-Import Bank loans
to countries in default oh their warj
i debts, and permitting the purchase
of commercial aircraft us distinguish-!
ed from military planes. Senator
Barkley of Kentucky, the Demo
cratic leader, announced that he
j would try to obtain Senate approval
of the changes tomorrow, sending
the measure to the White House al
most immediately.
Senator Brown (D-Mich.), its au
thor, said he saw no objection to
the House amendments and believed
the Senate ahould accept them so the
ftmds could be made available im
mediately.
A peculiar situation has surround-1
ed the bill from the start of its leg
islative career. It has had general
approval, but many of its supporters
have been more than a little skittish
as to the future consequences of catt
ing their votes for it
Thus, there was much cloak-room
talk of what would be the situation
of those who voted for the bill if by
campaign time the British, for in
stance, should have an expeditionary
force fighting the Russians in Fin
land. In effect, the situation was a
reflection of what is commonly re
jgarded as a genorql nation-wide sen
timent for helping Finland, but
against jeopardizing American neu
trality in any way.
So, the word was passed up and
down the aisles and through the
cloakrooms ?tbat no record vote?a
vote on which each would have to
'T I kt> ?hinil far nr tnimt the
*?wn< "W mimUSU Tr?
I came from two sources: Those who
I thought the United States should go
I farther in helping Finland and shonld
I vision for a direct loan to the Baltic
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(Washington Correspondent)
CAMPAIGN UNDERWAY.
DELAYED CONVENTIONS.
F. D. R. CAUSES DOUBT;
CRUISE SPECULATION.
JAPAN SITS TIGHT.
"MILLIONAIRE" INCOMES.
FRANK'S GROUP REPORTS.
WPA AND BUSINESS.
'
.
While the presidential campaign
has already started in one sense <xf
the wind, the major engagement will
not begin until after the party con-;
ventiona. These are set for the lat
est dates since 1866, with the Repub
licans meeting at Philadelphia on
June 24th and the Democrats con
vening in Chicago July 16th.
There will be. about fifteen weeks
between the formation of Party lilies
and the voting in November. By
postponing selection of the date for
the Democratic Convention, the Party
in power beliefs that it will have
some advantage from looking over
the nominees of the Republican Par
ty and studying the issues made by
the platform of the minority. Dem
ocratic politicians also take the posi
tion that the party in power has cer
tain advantages and needs less time
to promote its candidate.
Unless President Roosevelt makes
some' declaration as to his intentions,
upon tiie. completion of his present
vacation cruise, it seems likely that
nothing definite will'be known until
the Democrats gather to make their
decision. Until the Democratic nomi
nee is actually selected, the third
term issue will remain suspended.
While it is generally believed that
the President prefers to retire, there
is widespread belief that he will be
drafted by the Democrats, particular
ly if the situation in Europe is
threatening and the Republican cam
paign seems to be getting underway
Jin a manner which makes progress
with the voters. While many Demo
crats are opposed to the third term
idea, the reader niay assume that
they prefer victory in November with
the President as their candidate rath
er than defeat in November with some
other nominee.
il -gatherers, looking for sen
I apparently speculated rather
Ipon the poaaibility that Presi
losevelt, on his cruise, might
I ?h officials of European coun
| discuss the situation abroad,
lie President declined to deny
[poaaibility, the stories multi
Vhey made good reading, but
lident's cruiser went through
|un* Canal steamed into
lific Ocean. Certainly, this
le a strange place to meet
In emissaries, but this little
?ill hardly kill off the specu
lum next time you hear it,
I will be amended to provide
lasting between the President
Imese representatives to con
lut conditions in the Pacific.
I f you take it, the speculation
k
Bns between the United
lid Japan show no immediate
I 3ent' States
Interne* on A^n
C1H wfBilStl8
"No group has a grattardagMe of
?iltfntsrott ia the MeMM cf the .
Decennial Cessna of 1940 than the
farmor,"declared D. W. Lupton, Dis
trict Supervisor of the Census for
this 4UtrUL:'h
? ??- *- ? v* *. * *r 'i
"Agriculture as an industry has
been in bad health for a number of '
years," declared Mr. Lupton. "Just 1
as a prudent person goes to his doc
tor for a complete checkup the far- 1
mers will in the Sensus of 1M0 get 1
the most complete study of their
pyxnptons that has ever been made. 1
Pacts to 'be collected on the seven 1
million feme will provide the far- '
mers themselves, the government, and <
students of the farm problem with a;11
guide to the future. *
"The nation as -a whole cannot-be ;
fundamentally prosperous -unless the ?
fanner is prosperous," declared Mr. 1
Lupton, "becnee the farms dhtectly
support 26 per cent of our population I
and the business of farming effects i
about half of all of our rieoeic. ' Be- 1
side* being- the produce" of the na- [
tion'g food supply, the farmer is one 1
of fee largefct customers of the bus!- <
ness man. The farmer's ability to I
purchase goods directly affects all I
business as !well as their wmtiaMs in 1
the dty The farmer is one of the '
greatest suppliers 01 raw materials
for industry.
"Vital changes throughout the
world have directly affected fee pros
perity of the American farmer," ex
plains Mr. Lupton. "Disclocation, of
world markets due to wan and 'the
efforts of foreign nations -to make j
themselves self-sufficient has msfe []
the American farm surplus burden- ]
some by curtailing exports. Mschan- ,
ization of farihs has increased farm >
production while decreasing the nana- ]
ber of customers even on the farm.
Greater mechanization in factories |
has reduced physical labor and fee ,
demand for staple food products. ,
Lighter women's clothes have added ]
to fee cotton surplus, and reduction
of physical labor has resulted in a ,
per-capita decline in fee consumption ]
of wheat. The-reductionof homes y
and mules from 27,000,000 to 16,000,- j
000 in favor of tractors and trucks ,
have made it necessary to rind a j
market for cash oops from 80,000,- j
000 acres formerly used to raise
horse feed. The greatly reduced Wife }
rate from 26 babies per 1,000 popu- ,
lation to 17 means fewer moutbi to j
feed in cooing yeaza. j
"The farmer ia therefore confront- ,
ed wife the proMatrf of adjusting his ]
production to meet feme vitai changes ,
and fee Census will tell him what ?
these changes are. The Census fl- j
gures will teQ him what crops are ]
being overproduced; what progress is
being made to use mors of his crops ,
in industrial plants. ' ,
"Industry has derolopsd a fine (
statistical record which guides its <
future operations. No one of fee
7,000,000 farmers can develop such a ,
set of records for his own guidance
because he has only his own figtaea.
Census records of IfityflQQ farms
combined In Urn only
tional Dictare or iarin opoibuoob w
BierooTfam ^blema^s '
to meet this problam."
?the
?record of farm operation* In thl* mc
itW^n ;
l ^UTHL mn?')
ODoTfttioni ouCu II numDer ox iotio
-jJ. *< ^.\j r> * ^| t miftiili * f.^tftv ;? I
zer And gasoline. ? .1*
help from their i^ffntflj nuuiy I
%:>) flSaraS:
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EUROPEAN I
SUMMARY
Washington-?Hull discloses Unit
ed States seeking "world-wide sup
port for pottHtar end to economic
autarchy, regimentation and totali
tarianism; House votes $20,000,000
iron-military lota for Finland.
London?'Lloyd George warns Bri
tons must till "every acre* to win
liege wirfare because Germans have
attained, virtual economic i*elf-suffi
dency; Kermit Roosevelt to voitm
teer as leader of English interna
tional toigade going to Finland.
Helsinki.?Russians gain in Arctic;
Finns pay invaders suffer heavily in
Herce TtarSHan Isthmus fighting.
Bucharest ? Germany offers to
guarantee Rumania's borders but de
sands in return virtual trade mono
poly.
Budapest?Police, under Nasi pres
sure, lay virtual siege to French
smbcssy harboring 40 Czecho-Slovak
passports; hundreds of other refu
gees face deportation to Germany as
result of German drive to break up
'underground railway."
Kington To Be
Host City To The
Scout Camporee
I III B
Members of the Farmville troop
Boy Scouts, and their leader*, Ed
Nash Warren and C. L. Ivey, am
looking forward with great enger
16M to the annual Patrol Camporee,
which is to held April 10-20-21 in
Sinston.
John J. Sigwald, Scout Executive of
die Eaat Carolina Council, will serve
is the "Camporee Chief," and a splin
iid program of Scout Sctivity has
Men plgnnad.
Jack Skinner, Mayor of Einstxm,
will be host Camporee chairman, and
lias already sent a personal invita
tion to every scout in Eastern Caro
Jna and has promised that no stone
will be left unturned in Kington's ef
fort to make their stay profitable and
peasant.
Featuring the Camporee entertain
ment program will be the campfire
svent of Saturday night, at which
Herman Joseph, nationally known
down and comedian will be master
)t ceremonies in a real scout circus.
Mr. Joseph was the leading down
with Singling Bros, and Barnum and
Bailey's Show for 20 seasons. 'An
Bagle Court of Honor will be another
lighlight
A total of 1158 Seouta and Scouters
were in attendance at the last Cam
poree, and an even larger number is
skpsried by the host city of Kins
ion this year.
?ftUBLB FUNERAL HELD
? FOR BIB. AND MRS. SPEIGHT
A pall of Borrow has covered the
kntire Fountain community for the
pastweek as the result of thavjiwtii
ftf ode of the, oldest and most highly
Bsteemed couples in this section,
I John Rascom Speight, and Mrs. Mar
Kha Ann Moore Speight, which occur
red Thursday at their home deer
Fountain. Both were in their eigh
vedding anniversary in June of last
Bftaal rites Wake conducted irom the
I Speight home Saturday afternoon at
Wire# o'clock by Rer. L. B. Manning,
lp>r of Aspen Grove FtOe Will
Baptist Church, of which Mrs. Speight
listed in the services. Interment was
I tfv M jjuW' af
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Western Front Growsgs Wm
More Active as Spring
Fighting Season Nears
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Patrol and Artffltfy
Fighting Between Ite
French and German?
Becoming More Pro
nounced; British War
planes Again Make
Flight Over German
Capital
Paris, Feb. 28.?Renewed patrol
fighting on the Western Front,, ac
companied by continued atorialadtfvi
ty, was reported tonight by military
dispatches which said that French
artillery had smashed German at
tempts to feel oat advance positions. <
At the same time, official an
nouncements disclosed that British
reconnaissance planes had flown over
Berlin?as well as Kiel, Cuxhaven
and Hanover?again last night, and
reported that two German planes,
which participated in mass flights
over France, had been downed in the
past 48 hoars.
The land action was reported par
ticularly hot in the sector between ?
the Moselle and Smr rivers, not
far from the Luxembourg border,
where the Nazis have strode again
and again in the last 10 days at
French advance positions.
Three German patrols were halted
in this area by French barrages be
fore they got within striking dis
tance of their objectives, dispatches
from the front said.
Further east, !n the vicinity of the
Blies River, French artillery whs
reported to have directed a hot fire
against German positions, discourag
ing patrol activity in this sector.
The French high comnllnd took
note of these operations in its mottl
ing communique by mentioning in
creased artillery and patrol activity,
but its nightly communique said
merely "quiet day."
Berlin Version.
(In Berlin the German high com
mand said a strong French infantry
assault, supported by artillery, had
been repelled east of the Moselle
River last night.)
Announcement of the downing of
two of the German planes which
had taken port in flights over France,
penetrating to the Paris are*, Uga
made in;a special communique.' It
did not say, however, v whether the
planes had been downed'by anti-air
craft fire or pursuit ships.
Meanwhile, the British Air Min
istry, Which earlier had reported, two
other German planes destroyed off .
the English coast, miwrorad .that
the Royal Air Force had made its
fifth flight over Germany in el*
days, reconnoitering Hanover and
the Nazi naval bases at Kiel and
Cuxhaven in addition to fly ing over
Berlin.
On the home front, Premier Bala
dier conducted a detailed review of
French diplomacy before the Cham
ber of Deputies foreign affairs com
mittee. A communique, issued by
the oommittee after the conference,
said!
?n,irir.(r o-m lunation. Premier
.?u ? ,
Daladfof,-while discarding' the illu
sions of thot* who depict Germany
as a country which is on the thres
hold of collapse, enumerated the
grave interior difficulties whichthe , :
Reich is attempting to camouflage by
its propaganda, and developed?with
a vigor which drew unanimous ap
plause ? the reasons which juitify
pur confidence in victory.9
" Aid For FbdamL 5'
Daladier, the communique said,
disced the sttfu. of A&S
aid to^nland, and^ld the cot)a< .
J3B governments atuvuue towaru
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