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Wallace Enterprise OF DUPLIN COUNTY Published Every Thursday By THE WELLS-OSWALD PUBLISHING CO. Wallace, N. a SUBSCRIPTION RATES IN Duplin and Pender Counties One Year.. Six Months. Three Months.. ' Elsewhere One Year. Six Months.. Three Months. W. G. WELLS.Editor H. L. OSWALD .... Superintendent This paper does not accept responsibility for the views of correspondents on any question. Entered ae Second Clean Matter January 19, 1923, at the Poatofflce at Wallace, North Carolina, under the Act of March S, 1879. Thursday, August 13, 1936_ There are people in the world who think they can argue with electricity. $1.00 J60 *6 $1.60 .76 .60 Business is undoubtedly better and the av erage citizen hopes it will stay better. It is about time for the processes of educa tion in the United States to be modernized. One thing about the various courts of last resort: nobody can guess what their next guess will be. The trouble with people who insist that right must triumph is that they can’t agree on what is right. PROGRESS FOR SOLDIERS We hadn’t thought of it but Major Edgar E. Hume calls attention to the absence of any ep idemic of major proportions in the camps of the CCC and points out that this indicates that modern medical protection will save the lives of soldiers in the “next war”. It is undoubtedly true that scientific advan ces in medicine, surgery, sanitation and diag nosis have made warborn plagues less likely to strike down arm|es. Now, if some pro gress will be made toward making these ad vances available to all the people of the world, even in times of peace, the civilization of the globe could be marked up a peg or two. THE SOVIET BACKS THE LEAGUE The Soviet government, through its ambas sador to Great Britain, has served notice that it will oppose any weakening of the covenant of the League of Nations. This will surprise many citizens who were under the impression that the League was dead and awaiting the funeral services. What the Russians think of the League, as a future in strument of peace, is plain. They insist that it has not yet had a “fair or conclusive trial.” We are well aware of the fact that the peo ple of the United States, acting through their political servants, have rejected the League of Nations, and that, so far as the eye can see, there is no sentiment to reverse that decision. However, facts are stubborn things, and we might as well understand that the world to day is in a mad race to arm for warfare large ly because the League, or a substitute, has not been adequate to the trying problems of the age. ELECTION BY COUPONS, PERHAPS Now that the presidential election is less than three months away it is inevitable that the nation will be afflicted with a great many "polls”, which, according to their sponsors, will show the trend and tell us in advance how the election will result. It may be that, in a few decades, the busi ness of electing a president will be a simple scatter of tabulating the results of the polls and thus inducting into office the man who runs ahead in the popular tests. Possibly, by using coupons for the voting, and charging a few cents for them, the election of a president could be made a profitable venture for the gov ernment. Aside from the joking, however, one poll re r eently announced is that of the Baltimore Sun, which will query the 755,000 persons register in Maryland. This will be, so far as we Mbw, the first occasion that any agency has attempted to include all those who have the right to vote. Maryland, be it noted, in fifty-two years has cast its ballot for the winning candidate in ev ery election except that of 1888. Starting with the victory of Cleveland, in 1892, Maryland has :g£rung with the winner every time. What it PHI do in 1936 may be uncertain at this time 'imt the Sunpaper poll ought to give us a fair ly accurate idea in advance. LIFE SURER BUT NOT LONGER The Census Bureau having released new life tables, showing that life expectation has ad vanced from under 50 to about 61 years, moves many writers to remark that “life grows long er” and to speculate upon the extra 11 years acTded to man’s life. The truth is that life is not longer but that it is surer. The baby born in the United States today has a much surer chance of surviving to manhood or womanhood, but it has' no basis to expect to live 11 years longer than the ad ults of the years behind us. Life expectation tables are based upon the age of death for millions of people, including babies that die within the first year. Obvi ously if two babies are born and one dies in infancy and one at sixty, the average, or life expectancy, is 30 years. If the two babies had lived to 40 years of age and then died, the av erage, or expectancy, would have been forty years. However, the length of the life of the individual baby would not have been increas ed. From this example, it should be seen that “life expectation” may advance considerably through the better care of new-born babies without making it probable that years are be ing added to average life. IThis is shown by the recent statemnt of Dr. Aleis Carrel that a middle-aged man today has a smaller chance to live to be 80 than his grandfather did. How ever, a baby born in 1936, has a far greater chance of becoming an adult than the babies that were born in, say, 1900. Washington News For U. S. Farmers DROUGHT WIDESPREAD THREE-FOLD RELIEF NO WHEAT FAMINE With more than one-fifth of the counties of the nation included in the area suffering from the damages of drought and no immediate pos sibility of estimating the extent of the dam age that will ultimately result, the people of the country, as a whole, scarcely realize the serious situation. Apart from fears on the part of consumers that there may be a shortage of essential food requirements, which will mean higher prices, there is a general opinion that the situation will take care of itself and that the farmers, somehow, will pull through. The Federal government is answering the cries of State governors and other officials for aid in the face of the worst catastrophe that has happened to American agriculture. Three regular agencies are busy while a special Drought Area Committee studies the question with the view of recommending a long-time program, taking into consideration the prophe cy of some experts that present weather condi tions threaten to make a semi-desert area of certain sections. The Department of Agriculture has modi fied its soil conservation program in order to facilitate benefit payments to drought-stricken farmers who replace lost crops by soil-conserv ing ones. The WPA is offering employment to farmers who have been left destitute by ruin of their crops, employing them on road work, cattle relief and similar undertakings. The Resettlement Administration is busy extend ing aid to animals and human beings that need help immediately. Government officials do not expect a world shortage of wheat despite a report some weeks ago that there might be a lack of this essen tial food crop. Officials maintain that the world will have about a normal carry-over on July 1, 1937, or about 300,000,000 bushels. In the United States will be grown 600,000,000 bushels in 1936 and with 125,000,000 bushels of old wheat will about take care of a consump tion of 625,000,000. Substantial imports of special grades, however, are expected because of the shortage in these grades for the past few years. Concern here is centered upon the corn crop. Private sources indicate that world produc tion will be 900,000,000 bushels under normal this year, or about the estimated shortage in the United States. Secretary Wallace estimat ed, on July 29, that a maximum of 1,700,000,000 bushels could be expected this year in this country, as compared with a normal 2,500,000, 000 bushels. Conditions have not improved since the estimate was made. Mr. Wallace sees no reason for bread prices to advance, says meat prices will not be affected for mdnths and that the crop will probably take care of pre sent livestock on a normal basis. He predict ed that dairy products and somk vegetables would be affected. It should not be forgotten that much of the aid now being given to the farmers is of doubt ful legality, although no one expects any ef fort to stop the assistance. Cardwell Advises Farmers To Consider Farming Faults Should Free Business From All Weaknesses That Trend to Lessen Earnings By GUY A. CARDWELL The Crop Reporting Board, Bureau of Agricultural Econo mics, United States Department of Agriculture, recently releas ed a statement showing cotton revisions, acreage, yield andj production, crop years 1924-, 1935. I According to this publication Virginia harvested 108,000 cot-| ton acres in 1924, and 52,000, acres in 1935. North Carolina harvested 1,802,000 cotton ac res in 1926, and 930,000 acres' in 1935. South Carolina har vested 2,267,000 cotton acres in 1925, 1,362,000 acres in 1935. I have used the highest har vest acreage figures during the twelve year period covered by the statement, and the 1936 fig ures in each case. What are farmers n Virginia and the Carolinas doing to uti-| lize the cotton acres released amounting to £6,000 acres in Virginia, 872,000 acres in North Carolina, and 905,01)0 acres m South Carolina, a total for the1 three States of 1,833,000 acres ?| Presumably much of this acreage is being used for food, feed, soil conservation crops, and forests in the making. At least this should be the situa tion. If we add to this a rea-j sonable livestock and poultry population for the home table, and for sale for incidental in come, plus several new secon dary cash crops, should not the farmers of this section be ap proaching something like eco nomic freedom? We cannot attain to a bal anced operation in one or two years with surplus income for! the purchase of necessities and luxuries that all want, but' should not every farmer strive to free his business from those faults and weaknesses that are bound to continually lessen his> earning capacity, regardless of markets? Brief, Very Brief j Shipbuilding industry em-^ ployment advances to level of 1923-25. | New Reich decree checks trade with the United States. | I. C. C. rules railroads must drop the emergency freight rate. | Deposits of $9,943,085 made1 good by FDIC, Crowley reports, j United States Treasury regis ters gain in July over year ago. Owen scores in the Olympic 100-meter final, tying record. Physics teacher and pupil lo-' cate Capitol dome’s “echo spot.” j Hot winds keep glider in air eighty-five minutes at Ellen-j ville. Michigan farmers told by Lemke that bankers are “rob-j bers.” I New Paris town coats inspir- j ed by eighteenth-century ban-' dits. YES -you can Are you one of these nervous people who lie awake half the night and get up feeling “all in”?. "Why don’t you do as other light sleepers have been doing for more than two generations— Dr. Miles Nervine? One or two pleasant effervescent Nervine Tablets or two or three teaspoonfuls of liquid Nervine will generally assure a night of l restful sleep. Perhaps you will have to take Nervine two or | three times a day just at first i Nervous people have been using j Dr. Miles Nervine for Sleepless ness, Nervousness, Irritability, Restlessness, Nervous Indiges tion, Nervous Headache, Travel Sickness, for more than fifty years. DrMiles- NERVINE Liquid and Effervescent Tablet June revenues of Class I rail roads rise 17.5 per cent this year. Manufacture of steel for rail road use is the heaviest in years. $3,600,000,000 is listed by Re publicans as Democratic ‘fund.’ Six-year farm income peak is seen on spur to prices by drought. Youth gets bail in extortion threat against Shirley Temple. Japan celebrates acquisition* of the 1940 Olympic Games. Green offers to resign in or der to end A. F. of L. row. Coordinated drought aid planned as crop ruin grows. Knox, in acceptance speech at Chicago, predicts victory. Japan will replace four of her old battleships. Landon, in letter, upholds right of unions to organize. Secretary Wlallace predicts smallest yield of corn since 1881. Stanley says that United Sta tes plans two new battleships. They Say.. Whether Right or Wrong John D. Rockefeller, Jr.: “Bootlegging cannot be con-1 trolled as long as taxes are high." Harry Emerson Fosdick,! preacher: “It is hard to believe in God, [ but it is far harder to disbe lieve in Him.” D. Leigh Colvin, Prohibitionist, candidate for president: “The people and the newspa pers are more friendly now than they have been for years.” James A. Farley, National Democratic Chairman: '“There isn’t anything that can happen between now and November to disturb the Pre sident’s popularity in the farm belt.” Edward A. O’Neal, president, national Farm Bureau: “If we can’t get equality for agriculture under the Constitu tion, we will amend the Consti tution.”. William E. Dodd, U. S. Ambas sador to Germany: “Woodrow Wilson offered the world the same thing that George Washington offered the American States in 1779 when we got a Union.” PREMIUM BOOKS STATE FAIR NOW DISTRIBUTED Raleigh, Aug. 12.—Premium books for the 1936 State Fair are now available at the office of Manager Norman Y. Cham bliss in Raleigh. Exhibitors are offered a total of $16,000 in prizes, an increase of 16 percent over last year’s premium list. Awards are limted strictly to exhibitors re siding in North Carolina, al though outsiders can show their products without engag ing in competition. Dr. F. E. Miller, of the State Department of Agriculture, is in charge of all agricultural exhibits again this year. Thus far 20 percent more exhibit space has been taken than at the corresponding time last year, leading operators of the exposition to believe that an unusually wide variety of dis plays will greet visitors to the Fair, which will be held the week of October 12th. In addition to stressing the educational side of the fair, Manager Chambliss is cooper ating with George Hamid, in 'ternationally known showma^ of New York, in booking a wide variety of entertainment at tractions. Interesting special events will mark each day’s program. ^ All camera men to map dust bowl for conservation data. Corn Belt rushes to buy can- . ned goods as drought contin ues. . • ■ ■ ■■■ -> —- ■ -<t NOTICE OF SUMMONS ^ State of North Carolina, County of Duplin. j In The Superior Court ^ — - ■ 1 GEORGE N. SAVAGE vs. CLARI J. SAVAGE (The defendant, Clari J. Sav age will take notice that an ac tion entitled as above has been commenced in the superior court of Duplin county, North Carolina, to obtain an absolute divorce on the grounds of adulif tery, and the said defendant will further take notice that she is required to appear be fore the Cleric of the Superior Court at his office in Kenans-t ville, N. C., on the 27th DAY OF JULY, 1936, and answer or demur to the said complaint fil ed in said action within thirty days after the 27th day of July, 1936, or the relief therein ask ed will be granted. This the 22nd day of July, 1936. R. V. WELLS, > Clerk Superior Court July 23-30 Aug. 6-13 —815 666 checks MALARIA » in 8 days * COLDS first day Liquid, Tablets HEADACHE Salve, Nose Drops SS minutes Try “Rub-My-Tism”-World’s Beat Liniment FARMERS . 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