Washington
1 _ Notes;
Army enlisted |
in clerical and how
'aetfvttfea for combat doty.l
20,000 soldiers have
pbotiction
for HO®(000,000 tor air raldj
for the American people.
NOTHING 1
Industry has recommended to tie
War Production Board oactain
rheagsa hi the design of men and boys
ffathing hi a wool conserving program;
elimination at two-trouser
suits ""I Testa in linwtml
salts; a halt hi the prediction of
patch pockets, belted coats, and cuffs
§ad pleats In toousars; redaction of
coat lengths by one inch; and overcoats
now averaging about 46 inches
In 48 inches. 1
TRAVEL
Priority for seata and cargo space I
upon commercial airlines has been
established by Brig. Gen. Donald H.
Connolly, Military Director of Civil
Aviation: (1) White Home personnel;
(2) Army, Navy, and Marine
Corps, Perry Command pilots traveling
under orders; (3) personnel of
the armed forces and allied military
missions traveling under orders; (4)
Amy and Navy equipment, ammunition,
applies and materials essential
to. the war program; (5) personnel of
Government departments and agencies
whose activities are essential to
the war effort, and whooe*travel is
certified for priority by air. These
priorities are not expected to interfere
very much with the travel of
the general public.
COST OF LIVING
Cost of living rose 2.2 per cent, in
the last quarter of 1941, according
to Labor Secretary Perkins. Cost of
living is now oyer 110 per cent, of
the 1936-86 average. The cost of
living rose less in December for people
living in large cities than during
any month since last March. However,
the rise in cost of foodstuffs
daring the first half of January was
unusually sharp.
SUGAR
According to the Department of
Justice, the recently adopted practice
by a number of grocery stores of requiring
consumers to purchase a
designated amount of other groceries
in order to obtain a limited amount
of sugar is subject to Federal prosecution
as a violation of the anti-trust
laws. The Department of Justice is
inUroatsd in any complaints from
any jjart of the country against retail
grocers who are using the current
sugar shortage to exploit the
tow-income groups.
Looking at Washington
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of new bases "so that they will all
be available at the right time."
General Arnold referred to the report
of the Senate Defense Investigating
Committee, which had quoted
U» aa saying that the P-40 type
was hardly better under present
serial warfare conditions than a good
pursuit trainer. Ha explained that
the remark was "off the record," that
the P-40-D (Kitty Hawk>
i superior to all the other
Rat* (hips in the Middle
sorted out that one squad|U
of that type brought
•tile planes with the loss
Pi that at Pearl Harbor
a. m., was attacked and soak by the
Navy patrol but no alert warnings
were issued to the base because of
this development.
Thjese are humiliating facts but
there are others just aa bad. Mere
than two hundred consular agents
were active in Honolulu, under the
Japanese Consul, and the attackers
had "complete information" as to
the operations of the fleet, where
naval vessels would be berthed,
where airplanes were located and
that no adequate airplane patrol existed
around the periphery of Oahu.
There is every reason to believe
that the lesson will be thoroughly
learned to the ultimate benefit of
the United States. In certain regions,
it? is said, steps have already been
taken to concentrate command of
vital forces in a single head in order
that defense and offense may be
properly coordinated.
Naturally, it is inevitable that
some isolationists, and others who
have steadily opposed the foreign
policy of the Government, should attempt
to link the disaster at Pearl
Harbor with the transfer of destroyers
to Great Britain, the institution
of the Atlantic Patrol and the delivery
of war supplies to the nations
fighting: aggression.
In this connection, the Roberts
Commission, while realizing that additional
strength was needed at Hawaii,
concluded that "presupposing
timely disposition" of "the forces
available," they "were adequate to
frustrate a surprise air attack or
greatly to mitigate its effectiveness."
It is also to be regretted that some
congressmen seem to have the idea
that a prolonged Investigation of the
Pearl Harbor affair should be conducted
by a congressional committee.
There are refrerces to a courtmartial
and suggestions that various
officials should be removed. No useful
purpose (x-aid be served by giving
congressional critics a field day,
o» permitting them to take highranking
officers from duty in order
to testify before their investigating
committee.
The Patriotic Duty Of Every Farmer
Is To Produee What Is Needed To Win
The War AndTheiPeace That fdtows
_
Dy H. S. SIMS, Jr.,
Special CbHwpwtot of
The Kktnprin.
The output at farmer* in Pitt county
can not be too burg* thi* year.
And, u striking' as it -may seem
after a nightmare nf surpluses, farm
output can not grow too imp rfter
the war to over.
The goal far 1943 is to paaide
the people of the United States and
people living in other countries
fighting for freedom with sdeqwato
nutrition, and, in addition, to begin
building op reserves of food for the
post-war world.
We have a reserve in wheat, cotton
and tobacco now; we will try to
build a iwuii) of finished foods like
canned peck, canned vegetables, dried
eggs, and evaporated milk. Ajri.aU
other kinds of food that will keep.
Huge reserves of food will be an
important weapon for the United
States sift crashing Hitlerism. Thai
fapt that we have great quantities of
food to be used aftetr the war will
help undermine the "new order" in a
hungry Europe. - - v
And when the war is over, this
■apply of food will carry weight *t
the peace table. We Americans have
learned from eocperianee that it is as
important to win the peace as it is
to wfa * war. If we expect our
peace planners to hold Joe Stalin's
communism in line, then it is important
that we supply than With am
"ace In the hqle"—a hugo reservoir
of foodstorf^^|JC
After the war Europe will be faced
with the menace of hunger. If we
dont feed and chothe the people of
the various depleted countries, then
we may expect revolutionary un*
heaves in Europe. It will be about
as important to supply these countries
with food after the war as it is
to supply England and Russia with
Lend-Lease supplies now.
This logic insures the farmers in
this section of a large market long
after the war. There will be tremendous
need in Europe for grains,
feeds, fibers, dairy products, meats,
.and breeding stocks for flecks and
| herds.
During a war it is the patriotic
duty of every fanner in Pitt county
to adjust the output at his farm to
the demands of the government. The
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
is actively trying to assist farmers
"in producing more of what the
country needs and less of what it
does not need."
Without guidance through an
agency such as the AAA, farmers in
(his county and over the . United
States would incur the dangerous
risk of making bad adjustments—
this is what happened in the first
World War. Intelligent and patriotic
farmers in this county will heed the
advice of farm officials in the government,
who are in a position to
know what our farm- war needs are.
CONGRESSIONAL PENSIONS
HOW PLAN WORKS
The people of the United States
should understand one provision in
the Civil Service Bill, recently passed
by Congress and approved by the
President.
Members of Congress would pay
*41-60 a month on their flfi/WO-ayear
salaries for the retirement privileges,
making them eligible for rotimement
at 60, 62 or 70 years of
age, depending on the number of
yean served, with a pension rawrinsr
up to |4,000 a year.
Representative Kamapeck, author
ferential treatment. He says it pro
WASHINGTON FARM FACTS:
The .Surplus Marketing Administration
purchased during December
more than $9,000,000 worth of United
States farm products; dairy, poultry,
and meat products, -were the
largest group of purchases.
Food containers used for LendLease
and other overseas shipment
will, in the near future, be identified
by a special emblem designed by
Walt Disney; the emblem shows an
American Eagle poised protectively
over a cargo boat, fending off a
bombing plane.
The Department of Agriculture is
asking for 40 million cases of canned
tomatoes and 38 million cases of
canned peas this year; both of these
vegetables are among the most vital
products sought in the Food for
Freedom campaign.
A shortage of ocean shipping which
has reduced the exports of shell eggs
from Argentina, has forced this country
to set up an egg-drying industry;
one plant with an egg-drying capacity
of one million eggs daily was
opened on November 17, a second
will open in March, and plans for a
third plant is underway.
The Department of Agriculture
will purchase eggs in the coming
months in the amount# necessary to
keep the price of eggs at a minimum
of 85 per cent of parity; this is done
to encourage expanded production
for wartime needs. v i
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The Commodity Credit Corporation
will purchase all lots of unmixed
approved varieties of soybeans remaining
on hand May 31, IMS, at a
price of $2.00 per bushel, provided
the germination is 85 per cent or
better; this was done to prevent soy
One of the features of ""Victory
Garden Week," February 9-li, will
be an address hy Govenwr J; MelviHe
Broughton. He will W I
State-wide radio network to deliver
a message to school children on Toesday,
February 10. -gflj
1 John W. Goodman, assistant director
of the State College Extension
Service and chairman at the State
Agricultural Workers Council which
is acting as the steering oonmittee
for the Victory Garden campaign,
has worked with Governor Broughton
and Dr. Clyde Erwin, superintendent
of public instruction, in arranging
for the broadcast
Goodman announced that the Governor's
address will be broadcast
over Station WPTP, Raleigh, Station
WBIG, Groensboro, and Station
WWNC, Asheville from 9:30 to 9:46
o'clock, sad over Station WBT, Charlotte
from 9:46 to 19:00 o'clock, on
Tuesday morning.
Dr. Erwin has instructed the school
principals and the 26,000 teachers in
the schools of the State to have their
900,000 students assembled before
radios during the tine of the Governor's
broadcast. Governor Broughton
will tall the school children and
their teachers bow they can cooperate
in the Victory Garden cowpalgw.
Goodman says the Victory Garden
committee has suggested that schools
participate in the food-production
program by encouraging children to
grow food to supply school lunches
in gaijdens at home and at school; to
promote the program through local
parent-teache? associations, chapel
periods, plays, and school and community
meetings; to encourage each
of the 20,000 high school students of
vocational agriculture and the more
than 10,00^ students in adult farmers'
classes to iiave farm gardens; to direct
the 867 home economics teachers
to stress nutrition through canning
fruits and vegetables; and to establish
community canneries in the
schools.
On soils of average fertility, complete
fertilizers may be used safely
at the rate of one ton to the acre
if broadcast, and not greater than
1,000 pounds if applied in the furrow.
The nation may be at war bpt this
doesn't stop the pension grabs.
average fertility,
amy be wed n
With the'current shortage of both
farm labor and new farm machinery,
a better and more complete use of
existing machinery has become essential.
THE ANSWERS
• ; 5. >•. "fiifc'- •*'- .-I®
1. Philippine time is IS hours
ahead of Eastern Standard Time.
2. Roughly, 2,000 by 4^00 mile"
3. About 11,000 miles.
4. Twenty-one. V
5. The imprisoned Premier of
Burma. ' ' 6.
None; it has been abolished.
7. The smallest combat vessel in
the Navy—about 60 feet long and
with great speed they tarty four
torpedo tubes and four machine guns.
8. London, where Queen Wilhelmina
went when the Germans
occupied the Netherlands.
9. United States Armed Forces
in the Far East.
10. Yes; the "Southeast Pacific
Headquarters of the United Nations,"
on Java, issued its No. 1 war
communique on Jan. 25th.
LUMBER
FarmviUr Retail
Lumber Yard
Phone 302*1 .
Located New Norfolk Southern
Dapot — FmrviTille, N. C
LUMBER, MOULDINGS,
ROUGH and DRESSED
SCREEN DOOR STOCK.
Y«nr Patronage fcSfel
RcgpetftfaHy Sotidted.
; A promising new recruit in the
' Food-for-Victory campaign ie the
new high-yielding disease-resistant
Midland red clover, introduced last
year by several State experiment
stations.
"Business as usual" is going fast
and it will sot return again soon.
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SING'S HI TEST GAS
Regular First Grade
18& Gallon
1st Grade Kerosene 10c Gal.
Motor 00 10c Qt and Up .
300 SOUTH MAIN ST.
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