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What Can 4-H’ers Do To Help Protect The Environment? By Mrs. Jane Cook Save the environment! Clean up the environ - nt! This is one of today's pie's greatest concern. e Itself is dependent on Iron mental products of i f water, the air that breathe. How can you i4-H'er help to make r environment safe? Lib- Switzerland Extension memakers Club is so in ested in this that they are aiding two awaids this vcmber to 4-H'crs who iv that they really care doing something about iL -o awards will be presen j a $25 award to die fchell County 4-H'er who jws he or die has helped st in solutions to errviren intal problems and a $25 ard to the Mitchell Coun -4-H club that shows it 5 excelled in solving en - problems. The idelines have been drawn by Miss Esther Oldt, pre ient of Little Switzerland tension Homemakers Club There Was A Time.. By George Conrad Agricultural Extension Chairman "Ard God said, let us make man in our image after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, aid over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth". Genesis 1:26 The beneficent lard yielded lush, bountiful crops. The forests, the skies, and lakes and streams wereahin dant with game, fowl and fish. Nature's gifts were li - mitless, it seemed. Despite these blessings, days were often clouded by a relentless struggle with enemies that threatened man's very existence. There were times, as now, when the bounteous land was enshrouded with fearful stillness. Insect hvxdes clouded the skies. Splended crops were denuded, with ered and died. Strange maladies struck flocks and herds. Game and domesticated carcasses were familiar sights. Virgin lands were decimated. . . causing ra ging fires, floods, erosion. . . resulting in desperate shortages of fuel and food. Man was stricken by hungpr, disease and death. The land became a grim spector. Throughout history, there were times when no escape was possible. The chronicles of history reveal man's desperate struggles, his heartbreaking defeats against suffering and misery, hisrelenties battle against superstitions, ignorance aid opposition of the closed mind. But his tory also records man's heartening victories over his adversaries. He learned slowly. Desperate and horri - ble measures were frequently adopted. Torture and witchcraft prevailed. By virtue of his intellect, he gradually developed tools capable of Changing phy - sical and ecological environments, and slowly rose to a position of dominance, setting himself apart from all other creatures. His success has been and continues to be temporary aid local. . .and the eternal straggle between mankind and the combined forces of his ene mies goes on. To produce sufficient food for his constantly increa sing numbers, man has made spectacular progress. Drought, war, floods, earthquakes, storms, fire and disease h *ve all threatened his existence, but hunger has been the most savage enemy. In its trail, unrest revolution, war and disease have usually followed. As the population expanded in early civilization, man turned from hunting to raising cattle and farm ing. Communities were established, replacing man's roving through the forests and plains. The deliberate practice of food-growing, now called agriculture,had begun. As food supplies increased, so continued the population growth. Through die intervening centuries, man slowly learned the techniques of successful farming. But his struggle against drought, soil- depletion, croj>-destroy ing insecls and pernicious weeds continued. Ravaging insect herdes often struck communities as man stood helpless, unable to combat and control them. Vivid descriptions of the depredation of many injurious pests are contained in early Greek and Bibli cal writings. An illuminating change came in man's Sruggle against pests towaid the end of the nineteenth century. When American farmers were given the responsibi lity of feeding half of the world during World War 11, scientists redoubled efforts to develop effective com pounds. This war-stimulated research led to the intro duction of completely new categories of insecticides, fungicides, herbicides and rodenticides. A major scientific breakthrough had been made, and the era of scientific pest control began. For the first time during man's long,troubled ex is tence, technical knowledge permits him to produce an abundance of agricultural commodities. In certain areas of the world, the battle against starvation and disease has been waged most successfully. The great challenge continues, however. The earth will double its present three billion population within the next 35 years. That number may increase to 12 billion in an equal period of time. Every sixty minutes, man kind increases by 7000. Without further improvement of food production aid pest control and weed control, man may he so busy struggling for food he will lose sight of that margin of surplus of time and energy needed to maintain an ad vanced civilization. There is a time. . . at this very moment. . wten half the world's population is going to bed. . . hungry. Spurred by hunger and disease from his remote past, man suffered, starved, struggled over death, survived, and is here to tell the tale. But only just. in cooperation with Agricul tural Extension Agents who work with Mitchell County 4-H Clubs. Winners will be deter mined on the basis of leader ship, excellence of project work and effectivenes of presentation for the project which best (1) demonstrates achievement in cleaning up and beautifying your community cr one or more areas of your community and/or (2) develops a work able plan for improving the water, air, land or health resources of your county or community. Study what can be done and how. Look around and decide what places seem to you to be ugly to look at and arc dangerous to peopled health. What can be done to make them beautiful again? How can streams be made healthy and beautiful again? Remember when you could wade in the bran ches and creeks—even bend over and get you a drink of cool, clean water from tire streams? Take pictures before you begin and as changes are made, take mere pictures. Get your family and friends to work with you. Keep a record of when you began, what you did, how many people helped and what you accomplished. Anotlier ex ample: Study the in your area. Can they be made safe far fishing, wad TESTING FOR HEARING LOSS —Charles Black tests the hearing and'rsoun d ptM ar/only a program by the mill to solve their noise problems. Special equipment and a sound proot part of the effort by the mill to check 3 mployees for hearing loss. \ Glen Raven Goes One Step More Glen Raven Mills in Burns - ville is a weaving mill that produces synthetic fabrics in the grey state, (unfinished) that have many end uses. This Burnsville division began operation in 1948, and the looms at Glen Raven now produce four times the amount of cloth that was originally manufactured there. Bob Rhinehart, a manager of the mill, said that they have been working in all areas of occupational health and safety to bring their mill into compliance with existing standards. He said, however, that any weaving operation has a noise problem and JB|f Cattle Grazing Lush Grass Where Proper Pasture Use Is Maintained. This Foilage Was Permitted To /| I 1 Mature Before Grazing. \ "Fertile Soil | Is The Base Os Healthy Crops, Healthy Livestock, And Healthy People.” Frank P. Garland Tax Collector - Treasurer j Bakersville J ing, swimming and drinking? What can be done to make the water safe? Will your own land and water supply be harmed in the future? Will your children be safe to drink it? Another exam ple: What about garbage dis posal in your area? What laws have been passed in North Carolina on garbage disposal and why? Mitchell and Yancey, in a joint es - fort, will be setting up some Glen Raven Is no exception. After complying with new laws, Glen Raven has gone a step further by installing a program to protect and cor rect the hearing ability of their employees. Working with them on this program is Dr. Joseph Stataloff, a Phila delphia ear surgeon specializ ing in hearing problems and defects. Two Glen Raven employees, Charles Black and Billy Byrd, have received special training to administer the program. Under the program, all employees are given periodr: checks. If a hearing loss is dumpsters in areas of the counties. What can you do to people use the equip ment? To make your work ef fective, what publicity can you give people who have helped you? People like to read about it in the paper or hear about it on radio or TV. Can you do anything about youth's great cancer li the environment? present or develops, the em- | ployee is assisted in taking 1 steps to correct that loss,what- 1 ever the cause. s According to Rhinehart | and Black, Glen Raven ac tually had little to do to "com ply with new laws concerning 2 noise. Ear muffs and ear 2 plugs have always been pro- I vided, but only until recently i did the law make w earing “ them mandatory. f The new program goes far | beyond the necessary require- | ments. As Mr. Rhinehart | put it, "We felt we should do | more for our employees than | just comply with laws. " Historical Briefs About America’s First Food * * » A lot of people will be sur prised to learn that corn is not only an herb, but a member of the grass family as well—under cultivation for so many cen turies . . . that botanists can't trace its wild plant origin! * * * The New World colonists of 1608 were so opposed to eat ing corn—that they only ac cepted it . . . when faced with starvation! * * * ■eg .in. —— - If A Good Environment Depends On All Os Us Working Together, And We At Glen Raven Mill Are Willing To Do Our Part Glen Raven Mills. 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