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^ v PROBLEM
Again this year a great ihfmy farmers in Jones and Lenoir
1 4<yarttea are experiencing the sickening feeling of T*1*11**18 *
the several diseases that attack and kill the Golden Weed. Again
tills yearias in the past Farm Agents are urging every farmer
who has k sick or dying plant to bring it. in and get its ailment
positively identified. ,
This year a great percentage of those who are losing tobacco
are men who decided last year that “there’s nothing to this
% fancy talk about tobacco diseases and that I know more about
tobacco than these ‘desk-farmers’ over in the agriculture build
ing.” It is an expensive lesson but once, learned it is seldom
( forgotten. ,
If you have even one stalk of tobacco in your fields that does
not act naturally bring it in for your own security’s sake and
ftrifi out what kind of trouble the plant has so that you may be
able to choose the right kind of seed next year to prevent such
great losses. „
Next spring If you come to the county absent and tell him
ghat you want some re&stant seed the first question he is going
to ask you is “What kind of disease did your tobacco have last
year?” If you can’t answer that question you’re going to be
Worse off than when you started^
Find Out the trouble now if you don’t want more of the
same next year.
S6ME more campaign noises
One of the more amusing aspects of the current race between
Willis Smith and Prank Graham is the line up of men who are
opposing Graham because he is a Roosevelt-New Deal and Tru
man-'Pair Deal Democrat. They say the country Is headed toward
, .^tnumnp and that Graham will not fight the trend as effectively
as Smith. They say that among others things
Locally it Is particularly amusing to set these men who are
"fighting socialism” because with few exceptions they are boys
who have done pretty well for themselves under the tilgh-tax,
New Deal, Pair Deal programs that the people htftre voted for. the
past 2Q years.
Among the strongest Smith men are several who were bank
rupt under the “free enterprise” system of* Hoover. Two who
are now very much In the blue chips lost $helr homes at sales.
Look them over carefully as they make the rounds hollering about
Graham socialism and hark back to 1930 and see what the situa
tion was.
Another amusing aspect of this fight appeared this week in
the form of a mimeographed sheet which shows how Negro pre
cincts in several large cities of the State voted almost 100 per
cent for Senator Graham. This> is the first time on record that
any politician has been attacked on the basis of getting a large
vote. By the same simple logic one might condemn the entire
Democratic Party for being so stupid as to win the majority of
the nation’s votes in every presidential election since 1932. Since
when did the majority become wrong?
In Lenoir County’s Southwest Townsnip uranam Deal omiui
122-13 but by the propaganda procedure now being Indulged in
By the Smith Machine it would'seem that the people of Southwest
Township are wrong, un-American, opposed to progress, are
socialists.
in Jones County Graham beat Smith by three to one. Here
again we are confronted with the same illogical argument if we
follow the vicious pamphlet that hit the streets Monday morrf
ing. The Smith people may next introduce a motion that the
man with the fewest votes be elected, Since they are attacking
the principle of high' man winning. If Jones bounty and South
west Township in Lenoir County are un-Amefrican in their huge
majorities for Graham then the entire pattern of politics needs
overhauling. . v' ~
Graham needs the support again of everyohe of” the more
than 300,000 men and women who helped .him get the largest
vote ever given a North Carolinian. Return again' to the polls
on Saturday and send “D?. Prank” back to Washington. • , t
FOR AMBULANCE SERVICE—
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“A Garner Aipflmlance Is White”
Police work includes a thous
and and-one different tasks and
few of them are pleasant. Haul
ing in drunks, breaking up
fights, peacemaking between
brawling wives and husbands,
searching bootlegging joints, ans
wering wreck calls, hunting mur
derers, chasing speeders, testify
ing in court, checking doorways
in the business section when the
rest of the town has gone to
sleep, patrolling dark alleyways,
chasing shoplifters, and on and
on . -V •
But about the worst job police
officers have is dealing with in
sane people. It is not only dan
gerous bdt is frustrating to a de
gree that few can appreciate.
Fortunately, the great majority
of the Insane are'good humored,,
contrary to the popular notion,
They are good natured, how,
ever, so long as things are going
the way they want them to go.
If suddenly confronted and Ord
ered to do something contrary
to his peculiar and particular
notion, the average insane per
son can suddenly lose all of his
good humor and become danger
ously obstinate.
In dealing with the insane the
police official has t\> first be
a diplomat. He has. to per
suade the individual that he
is doing something to help
him, to protect him or to get
him what he wants. Ai big
majority of the insane suffer
from delusions of persecution
and this is used over and over
by those forced to-deal with them
as a lever to gain their confi
dence. ' *
Dud to the crowded condition
of the state hospitals for the
Insane a great many Incurable
and peacefully Insane Individ
uals are allowed to'remain at
home with relatives. Every week:
requests are made by the hard
pressed hospital officials for
homes for'thls type person. Jails
all over the state, carry a con
tinuously large burden of these
sick men and women who are
unable to get In the hospitals
because of the simple law of
physics which says that no two
bodies can occupy the same space
at the same time. .
.Last week one of these mild but
sick individuals caused a mo
mentary flutter In the life of
Kinston officials. A phone call
to the polloe department^ report
ed a disturbance at, the corner
of East and Washington streets.
Police Officer Dewey Merritt and
Kinston Township Constable "Ed
Phillips went to answer the call.
,On arriving at the comer, they
were told by a frightened mother
that her 20-odd year old son had
gotten out of their car and had
walked up the street to where
the parked truck of Cleveland
Dawson sat unattended with the
keys dangling from the switch.
This young, sick person stepped
into the truck and away he went
out Tower Hill road.
The police, followed but not be
fore radioing the" station which
in turn alerted the highway pa
trol office from which Patrol
man Clark Teague set out.
Out near Oak Bridge this de
men ted but harmless young man
tiasboil W«.
parked the truck by the side of
the road and was sitting there
contemplating nature when the
police, accompanied by his moth
er and, another relative pulled
along side and then parked in
front of him.
As policeman Merritt walked
toward the truck he put it into
gear find made a start and here
Merritt’s conversational ability
went into high gear. “Wait a
minute, boy.” he said. “Where
are you going?” Merritt quired.
,“I gotta go back to town,” the
sick man replied.
“We’ll take you in our car,”
Merritt told him. For a second
that seemed much longer he hes
itated and then stepped out of
the truck that he .had taken for
a three mile, ten minute drive
Into the country. ,T
in another few minutes he was
back in town and'lodged in the
county jail to await the decision
of doctors and-officials as to
the dtepddaT of his case. ‘
Fifteen minutes in the day of -
a cop. Nothing much happened
but the tldng that makes that
15 minutes so interesting is con
templation of how much could
have happened during that brief
period.
The cop has to be nursemaid,
doctor, lawyer, diplomat, kid
brother, hard boiled papa, help
ful friend and relentless critic
of his fellow man. If you feel
qualified to fill the bill come
rHwn and talk to Chief Marlon
Haskins he might find a spot for
you.
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Hot Weather Hint
Farm families can make sum
mer living safer and more enjoy
able by taking time out to do a
number of odd jobs around the
farm before^ the arrival of hot
weather, say agricultural engi
neers of the State College Ex
tension Service, v
Anti-freeze solutions should be
drained from tractor, truck, and
automobile radiators, points out
H. M. Ellis, in charge of extension
agricultural engineering. For best
service, he says, a radiator
should be flushed and cleaned
thoroughly twice a year. A sal
soda or washing soda solution is
very satisfactory. For badly cor
roded cooling system a commer
cial radiator cleaning compound
is recommended. After cleaning,
an anti-rust compound should be
ado* ’ '
Ellis say's' i: opens isii the foun
doton tcui.ain) wad under t« e
house were plugged uo last fall,
they should oe opened now. Ven
tilation and light are needed un
der the house in hot weather, to
discourage termites. !
Other “hot weather hints” of
fered by Ellis:
Repair screens.
laying
Kill oil poison ivy ana poison
cak by spraying with weed kill
er. Don’t burn these plants—sus
ceptible perrons may be poisoned
t>7 the smote
Complete uat spring cleanup
before the children start going
barefooted. - ’ • >
Take first aid kit along on pic
nics and otoef outings.
The ptacn crop m the 10
Southern early states is expect
ed to be about half as large as
the small 1949 crop. As a result,
growers’ prices are expected to
average above those of last year.
Nu„niion is highly Important
in promoting hatcjiability of
eggs.