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— THE — Wallace Enterprise OP DUPLIN COUNTY Published Every Thursday By THE WELLS-OSWALD PUBLISHING CO. v _Wallace, N. C. SUBSCRIPTION HATES IN Duplin and Pender Counties One Year. Bir Months .. Three Months.. • "" Elsewhere One Year.*L8° Six Months. Three Months . -60 yv. G. WELLS.Editor <1. L. OSWALD .... Superintendent This paper does not accept responsibility for the views of correspondents on any question. Bata red aa Second Claas Matter January 1#, 1923, at the Poatoffice at Wallace, North Carolina, under the Act of March S, 1879.__ Thursday, February 25, 1937. Apparently, 1937 is not a coal seller’s idea of winter. We believe in advertising—you might if you gave it a real trial. An individual’s intelligence can be measured by his attitude towards poetry. A little less selfishness would go a long ways to solving some of the nation’s problems. The champion killer of the age, it appears, Is the automobile. Nobody seems to care. WASHINGTON’S GREATNESS The birthday of George Washington is na tionally observed as a holiday and an occasion to recall the great services of this Revolution ary soldier and inspiring President of the baby republic that he had so much to do with estab lishing. George Washington was, all mythical stories to the contrary, a man of his time. He was exceptionally well-informed for his era. In no sense whatever was he anything like an un tutored woodsman and his successful career demonstrates conclusively the intelligent di rection of his life. Americans of this day and time are apt to regard Washington as a mythical mitacle worker but the truth is just the opposite. He ■was a commanding figure in his epoch and his fame has endured through the years, largely because of the success of the republic that he helped to found. We doubt if there is much to be gained, however, by going back to Washington for ad vice. He lived in an era far removed from present conditions and while his general ob servations as to basic principles are sound there is no suspicion that he had the faintest knowledge of the greatness destined to belong to his republic. Nor is there much reason to believe that he was a superior being, endow ed with t-he sense of prophecy and able to fore tell future events and advise how to meet fu ture contingencies. We make these observations mainly because we believe that the services of Washington will be better appreciated if they are viewed without any halo. He was a great leader, a wise statesman and a mar worthy of emulation, even today. PEOPLE TO DECIDE The people of the country, who believed that the battle between conservatives and liberals for control of the government ended last No vember, or that the war was about to end, have another thought now since the President sent his message to Congress suggesting that the Supreme Court should vary between nine to fifteen members, depending upon the ages and tenure of the various justices. Naturally, as everybody knows, the conser vatives hailed the move as an outrageous at tempt to “pack” the Court and accused the President of various motives and meannesses. The liberals, on the other hand, looked on the effort as a logical manoeuvre to complete the capture of the machinery of government in order to make effective certain reforms. The attitudes of individuals in almost any Ameri can community will be found divided in about the same manner, with the conservatives and liberals taking entirely different viewpoints. There has been a deadlock between Court opinions as what is the proper sphere of gov ernmental power, under the Constitution, and the New Deal idea of what the government «hoald do to meet modern questions. Conser vatives blandly assert that the Consitution does not give to the government any such power and back up their contention with the statement that' the Supreme Court, set up to interpret the document, says so. Liberals, on the other hand, contend that the interpreta tion put upon the historic document is a “tor tured construction,” *hat rightly considered the Constitution is broad enough to warrant what has been attempted and add that one need not expect a conservative court to render a liberal opinion on this qu tion. Ordinarily, the deadlock would have been solved by the appointment of new justices as the occasion arose but, in the present instance, the justices remain healthy and stick to their jobs. The President has not had the oppor tunity to appoint a single member of the Court. Whether he should wait for such an opening and affect the deliberations of the judical body by putting in his appointees, or force the is sue by drastic legislation to accomplish the same end is the present issue. Upon it con servatives and liberals divide, forming the same ranks as have heretofore fought on the respective sides of the age-old conflct between the two divisions of people everywhere. The Supreme Court is certainly within its rights when it passes upon the new laws. No body should censure a justice for sticking to his own conceptions of constitutional law or for remaining on the bench, regardless of what the voters may do at an election. On the other hand, let it be said, that the legislation pro posed by the President is entirely Constitu tional, within the powers of the legislative and executive branches of the government and, while undoubtedly a drastic resort, not revolu tionary or apt to end the functions of the Court. The President, apparently, thinks his policy is expedient and necessary under present con ditions. He asks Congress for legislation to accomplish the object in view. To be true, he appeals to a Congress largely of his own poli tical party but, just as true, one elected by the people of this country after nearly four years of Mr. Roosevelt’s interpretation of de mocratic government. In the end, regardless of what is done in Washington this year, the people of the nation will pass final judgment. If Congress fails to represent them the issue will be settled at the polls in November, 1938, and Congressmen guessing wrong will be left at home. • LIFTED • PIONEER AND PIONEERING Heaven preserve us! This young historian, Dr. C. C. Crittenden, secretary of the State Historical Commission, is asking proof, that old Davey Crockett visited Raleigh, before J. Hampton Rich, of Winston-Salem, erects a marker of his visit in Raleigh. Dr. Critten den may know his history, but he is lament ably ignorant about the J. Hamp Rich school of the historial marker business. Davey Crock ett may never have visited Raleigh, but in J. Hamp’s hands he is due for some traveling now. A man who could run Daniel Boone’s route' west as far north as the Boston Com mons is capable of showing Davey Crockett some real pioneering.—The News and Observ er. MISTAKEN IDENTITY Norman, Okla., Feb. 22.—Sad relatives buried a man Saturday as “Sam H. Wilson.” ITbday —thanks to a daughter’s doubts—they rejoic ed he was alive. Sam H. Wilson and Sam W. Wilson were in the same ward of a hospital here. Both had paralysis. Both were 70. And they looked alike. One died. The hospital notified the family of Sam H. Wilson. At funeral services in Davis, a daughter, Mrs. Pearl Royce, insisted the man was not her father. The wife and son assured her she was wrong. The man was buried. • • . Yesterday the daughter received a post card signed by her father. It was postmarked Sat urday, the day of the funeral. She hurried to Norman. ■ - ’ “I’m not satisfied that was my father,” she told hospital officials. “We got a card signed by him this morning. If you have any other Wilsons here, I’d like to see them.” As she walked across the ward floor, a small ish gray-haired man called out: “Hello, Pearl. What in the world brings you here?” She convinced hospital officials the man was her father. She showed them a tattoo of “SHW” on the father’s forearm to prove it. The son was called and he was taken to the ward. “That’s him,” said the younger Wilson, point ing to a bed. “Hello, Bud,” said the man. “Where is every body coming from today?” “Dad”, said the son, “there’s been a mistake made.” “Don’t tell him,” cautioned one of the hos pital officials. “He doesn’t know anything about it. Why worry him with it?” Last night, Dr. D. W. Griffin, hospital sup erintendent, said the man who died was Sam W. Wilson. He had no relatives. 4 PEOPLELFORUM Headers >n inrlted to contribute to tbit column. Communication! obould bo brief and carry tho writer’i cor rect name and addrooa which will bo published under tho article. No communication will bo accepted for publication unlooa it la signed. Tho publishers rosorro the right to re ject any article not doomed worthy of publication. FOR CROSSNORE “I want a book for my Mama, too. She can read hard books. No, she never got .to High School, but she says she has read more this winter than she read in all her life before. She read this one since last Fri day.” We sent her “Little Wo men”. In a little more than three months, three thousand books went out from our little library thru the school child ren, most of them children who came in on a bus; that- means the isolated corners. Of the three thousand, only 29 were overdue. “I want a book of adventure but not one by Zane Gray.” He got Lindbergh’s “We”. We are more short on books for high school boys than for any other group, but we are short on all. In every direc tion they are getting an appe tite for reading. Let’s feed it. We won’t have a library truck this summer, but we hope to take books to these school bus routes, making the rounds in two weeks. We will have to “hitch hike”. A neighbor with a car now, a tourist another time. Any help we can get, but we will go on regular days and they will meet us on the road. Won’t you send us more books to give out? Hunt everywhere for them, and remind your neighbors and write to your friends. Not text books; we can’t use them. But books such as your children enjoy or used to enjoy, and books that you know will whet that appe tite for reading. And speaking of this sum mer—who has a job for a big boy or girl"? A light job for a middle sized boy or girl? A home for a little one who is hungry for love, and must stand by at the close of school and see “their folks” come for the more fortunate ones to take them “home”. Did you ever stop to think what your life would have been if that word had been left out of it, They all need love and training and ideals, and the daily evidence of what a mother and father could be—a never-to-be-forgot ten lesson in what a real home should be like. The big boys and girls must have some pay. They can be a real help and they need mon ey for their necessities next school year. And don’t forget that we have a course in busi ness here, and that those who have finished the two years which we give them have given real satisfaction in the places they occupy. Don’t you need a stenographer or a bookkeeper, an office helper who knows what office ethics is? Few folks will undertake to clothe a big boy or girl. They are up against it, unless they can earn something in vacation. The middle sized ones need clothes and a little spending money to spend wisely. When school is over, there isn’t much left in these little wardrobes, and it isn’t very costly to re plenish them. And the little ones — you know what they need. Clothes—and love, and errands, and children, and kit tens, and someone coming from work to meet. Aren’t there one hundred homes for one hundred Cross nore kiddies that no one will “come for” unless you do? Hurry up! Some requests have already come in and there may be more than one hundred, and then there’d be no one for you. MARCH 29th is Commencement Day. They can go after the 26th. School will probably open August 1st, though" we won’t know for sure till the po liticians politic. Don’t forget! BOOKS and HOMES. And, oh yes—our last bit of cloth has vanished from the remnant shelf. The sewing class for women has had to close, and our girls will soon be out of quilt scraps. So it’s BOOKS and HOMES and REM NANTS. And hurry, please. With everlasting gratitude. Mary Martin Sloop, Crossnore School, Inc. Crossnore, N. C. Both sides in Spain weary of i war. British at Gibraltar hold.] CHICKENS REQUIRE GOOD START, TO MAKE MONEY "Get your baby chicks off to a good start and you will be in a better position to make mon ey with your poultry flock this year”, says Roy S. Dearstyne, extension poultry specialist at State College. The first step, he said, is to get only good chicks. Hatch eggs from birds of a good type that are high producers, or buy chicks from reliable hatchers. Then give the chicks a good chance. Feed a well balanced starter. Provide one mash hop per, five feet long, for each 100 chicks. Provide a half-gallon drinking fount for every 501 chicks. Do not start more than two chicks for each square foot of floor space. Check brooder house temper-j atures at frequent intervals. More chicks have been killed by overheating than by chil ing. Protect them from drafts but see that they get adequate ventilation. Rigid sanitation will keep down disease. Do not let chicks come in contact with anything that may have been infected by older birds. Don’t drug the chicks unless an em ergency arises. If any chicks appear to be infected with dis ease, remove them at once, and investigate. County farm agents and ex tension specialists will be glad to offer suggestions about dis ease control. FARM MANURE CREATES VALUABLE FERTILIZER An estimated $12,000,000.00 worth of plant food is contain ed in the 8,000,000 tons of farm manure produced in North Car olina every year. Yet much of this plant food goes to waste because the manure is not car ed for and utilized properly, said W. W. Woodhouse, Jr., as sistant agronomist at the N. C. Agricultural Experiment Sta tion. Basing his estimate on the value of plant food in commer cial fertilizer, Woodhouse said the manure produced annually on the average farm in this State is worth $43. He suggested that to get the best results, barns and lots should be cleaned often, and the manure should be spread on the fields as soon as possi ble. Properly cared for and utiliz ed, enough manure would avail* able fo apply three tons on every acre of corn grown in the State, he said. But by valuing the manure according to the increased crop yields it could produce, he add ed, it is worth more than three times that amount. On this basis, the total manure produc tion of the State is worth about $40,000,000. The experiment station has found that in a corn, wheat, and clover crop rotation, an appli cation of three tons of manure every three years produced an increased crop valuation valu ed at $4.78 for each ton that was applied. A large part of the nitrogen and potash in manure is water soluble, Woodhouse pointed out, and it is easily lost through leaching. When manure is al lowed to decompose in storage, large amounts of nitrogen are given off and lost as ammonia. Sufficient beding should be provided in stables to absorb all liquids, as the liquids con tain most of the nitrogen. Although manure is valua ble, Woodhouse added, it is not in itself a complete fertilizer, and it should be supplemented by other fertilising materials. FARROWING HOUSES AND FEEDERS AID TO PIGS Pigs farrowed in February often die from excessive chil ling that could be prevented by giving them adequate protec tion from cold weather, and the farmer who loses pigs in this way is really paying the price of a good farrowing house without getting its benefits, says H. W. Taylor, extension swine specialist at State Col lege. Taylor urges farmers to build a farrowing house for each brood sow. Or if old houses are available, clean and disinfect them thoroughly. Farrowing houses are not hard to build, he said, and the cost is low, much less than the loss that may be suffered by losing pigs through exposure. A self-feeder is another ad vantage in hog production, he went on. The feed is kept be fore the growing pigs at all times, where they can get all they need. Pigs actually gain more weight from feed through a self-feeded than they do from the same amount fed in ordin ary troughs, he pointed'out^ Plans for building a farrow* ing house, plan No. 160, and plans No. 217 or No. 61 for building self-feeders may be ©b- . tained free from county farm agents. FORD DRIVES 25,000,000TH VEHICLE BEARING NAME Dearborn, Mich., Jan. 18.— Henry Ford stood today at the end of the final assembly Iflld at the Ford Motor Company Rouge plant and watched work men build the 26,000,000th Ford. By his side was his son, Ed sel Ford, the president of the Ford Motor Company, and the chiefs of his world-wide organ ization. Completion of the 25,000,0oD th Ford represented the manu facture over the last 33 1-2 years, of more motor vehicles than are registered for opera tion today all over the Unifed States. J. M. Jenkins, of Stanfield, route2, Cabarrus county reports 8,010 eggs from his flock of 500 leghorns for the past month. He says this is a profit of $131.72 above feed coBt. MAGNOLIA NEWS (Continued from Page 5) Mrs. Pope and has lived with her for the past two years, and had been in very poor health the entire time. Rev. K. 'D. Brown of Burgaw, pastor of the local church, conducted the funeral at the home Thursday afternoon. Interment was made in the Magnolia Cemetery. Dan Alligod, of Washington, is visiting his wife in the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Smith. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Bostic, of Dobsons Chapel Community, spent the week-end with her mother, Mrs. Clara Gavin. Mrs. R. C. Horne and chil dren, Florence Elizabeth, J1. C. and Ralph, Jr., of Goldsboro, spent the week-end with Mjb. Florence Horne. Her husband joined her Sunday and all re returned to Goldsboro Sunday afternoon. Mrs. Hattie Cox Gaylor hps. been quite ill since Friday. Her son, Charles P., of Goldsboro, spent Sunday with her. 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