A nagging wife and a smiling conscience' on the morning after makes a fellow wish he hadn't Mary of the story book had a lit tle lamb. If she were real and here now she couldn't get any. ■ Hogs on foot are commanding a high price unless they happen to be the kind that are on two feet. Nothing escapes being taxed now adays. We tax our memory and the government taxes everything else. He who seizes time by the fore lock is borne forward. He who seises it by the fetlocks is kicked backward. If you will consolidate the views of the optimist and the pessimist and divide the sum by two you get the right answer. Eye specialists will have arrived when they can fit glasses that will enable people to see themselves as others see than. " s A naturalist says the skunk is a friendly animal. He seems to be. He is liberal with his perfume when any one is around. A new Orleans furniture store is looking into the possibility of using mule-drawn carts to save tires on deliveries of orders. . • U. S. Army training and proving grounds are contributing five mil lion pounds of fired cartridge cases a month as copper scrap. Girls in Czechoslovakia are ex cluded by Nazis from all but elemen tary schools, and so are the sons and daughters of "progressive" parents. About 1,300,000 women are mem bers of AFL unions and 1,500,000 be long to CIO unions. The Railroad Brotherhoods also have women mem bers. The 13-foot female statue of "Jus tice" formerly on top of a Canton, Ohio, office building has yielded 400 pounds of zinc to the local scrap ' drive. •- . A New Orleans furniture store is gunpowder box is saying Army Or dnance enough copper every month to fill specifications for 269 166-mm. guns. Agronomist Explains Fertilizer Changes Fanners at North Carolina should net be inconvenienced— in fact, they shook! be benefitted—by the restric tion in the Bomber of fertiliser grades, says E. R. Collins, Extension ! agronomy leader of N. C. State Col ■, lege. "The War Production Board will allow only 18 fertilizer grades to be sold in the State in 194?. "In the fertilizer year, 1940-41," said Collins, "there were 187 differ ent trades of fertilizer registered and jjppM in North Carolina. Mary "The last Legislature restricted to Thereforef K© tuided, it is not an - As of today twenty-one Billion American workers arc investing eight par cant of their salary - every pay day - in United Stateis tar Savings Bonds. This is a vary remarkable tributa to oar wnad foroas who ara fighting this war. But this job is only two-thirds accomplished. There ara nine million additional Aaarioan workers who ara not investing in War Bond* every fagTday. This appeal is directed to two Kroupa of Aaarioaas: First - tha twenty-ona Billion people who ara investing sight par oant of their wages. Vs ask than to increase their Investment to tan par oant or aora. Second - the othsr nine Billion whoa W* ask to join tha Payroll Savings Plan and to invest ten par oant or bo re of their earnings. It is our earnest hops hars at- tha Traasary Department that by Maw Tsar's Day thirty Billion Americans will be investing tan par oant or aora of their wages in War Bonds through tha Payroll Savings Plan. Farm Labor Problem Calls For Planting Labor on farm* is likely to con tinue to become scarcer throughout the war* says R. W. Shoffner, Ex tension farm management specialist of N. C. State College. This will be especially true, he said, on small farms which are not affected by the Government order freezing labor on "essential livestock farms " ' "There are ways that farm mali lies can help improve the labor situ ation on their farms," he declared, "and first and foremost is careful planning. The family should plan together how its family life should be carried on so as to release time for farm work. Divide the work and cut out less necessary tasks." , Shoffner also said that old men, women and children will have to do more of the farm work. Children will have to be taught to share in farm work, homemaking skills and care of the younger children. Other suggestions include; Neigh bors swap work, tools and esuip ment. A community workkshop where farm and home equipment may be repaired. Keep tools and equipment in good condition so that they will operate easily and efficient ly at allt-lgmes. Adjust livestock ahd crop enterprises to the labor supply. Shoffner said that production of "enough to eat, then something to sell," is the first duty of the farm family. Home-grown vegetables, fruits, meats, jmd poultry products will free transportation facilities and containyee badly needed in meet ing the demands qT the armed forces, war industrial workers in cities, and others of the United Nations. "The cost of things you buy will be higher," Shoffner' wanted farm people, "and labor" costs will be high er, too—if you can get labor." MOKE Farmers borrowed 1844,000,000 from 530 production credit associa tions in the first nine months of this year, as compared with a total of $290,000,000 in the same period last year. - WE WTtL BE OPEN EACH EVE NING THROUGH CHRISTMAS EVE TILL 9*0 O'CLOCK. FARMVILLE FURNITURE CO. J Men Observation Post Observers For Week of December 21 OBSERVERS—Please do not wait to be notified of your watch. If for any reason yon cannot watch— notify person in charge promptly. Monday, December Slat, fl A. 11. to 9 A.M. « P.M. to 9 P.M. Robot Lee Smith.- Rex Hodges. Taesday. 6 A.M. to 9 A.M. 6 P.M. to 9 P.M. J. R Shearin. G. P. Buigeron. 6 A.M. to9 A.M. 6 P.M.to9P.M. EeRoy Rollins. T. S. Ryon.' Thnrsday. 6AM.to9A.Mr 6 P. M. to 9 P. M. George Monk. Andy Mirtin. Friday. 6 A. M. to 9 A M. 6 P. M. to 9 P. M. W. E. Joyner. "J. W. Joyner. Saturday. 6 AM. to 9 A.M. 6 P.M. to 9 P.M. M. V. Jones. W. A. Allen. Sunday. 6 A.M. to 9 A.M. 6. P. M. to 9 P. M. A. C. Monk, Jr. Cecil Johnston. C. F. Baucom in charge this list. Telephone No. 415-1. — FERTILIZERS — I American farmers will be ableJ0 get most of the fertilizer tfadf need to meet crop production goals next year, according to the U. S. Depart ment of Agriculture. It pays to be good but pay day is sometimes a little late in arriving. | Week of Dec. 18 , FRIDAY—LAST TIME Bfcftf Crosby. Dorothy Laatoui "Road To Morocco" "The Best of the Roads" News of the Day—Special De feuse Short—We Refuse !• Di®« SUNDAY-MONDAY "WHITE CARGO" Starring Hedy Umttr m Toore layo, the tropical temptress, with Walter Pidgeon. A, great story of the tropics. — Added Attractions — Including News and Our Gang Comedy. TUESDAY "BEHIND THE EIGHT BALL" A Musical Murder Mystery with 11m Rita Brothers * Carol Bnjee A Special Defense Short—Night Shift and Sporta L Q. 7 WEDNESDAY" —DOUBLE FEATURE DAY— TUMBLEWEED TRAIL" with B. Boyde and L. Powell. 'EYES OF THE UNDERWORLD* A Gangster Story wfth Richard Dix and W. Barrie. Firrft Chapter «f "CAPTAIN MIDNIGHT" THURSDAY-FRIDAY Christmas Ere and Christmas V Dayl Tyros Power and Maureen O'Hara Co-Starred in "The Black Swan" An Exciting Drama of Old Pirate Life, thrilliag beautiful life-like . News, Cartoon, and Pete Smith Novelty complete our Holiday program. The aanagesMMt of the Para mount Theatre takes this oppor tunity to wish each and every one of Ha patrons ... A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS — and a — HAPPY HOLIDAY SEASON Save With SING'S HI-TEST GAS Regular First Grade Only 20.9c Per Gallon ETHEL GAS 22.9e Gal. Motor 00 2 quarts for 26c 1st Grade Kerosene 12c Gal. Quaker State and MohUoO w^fl^2SN^£Kfai $8g "f\