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THURSDAY, MARCH IS, 1943
The Little Men
W. E. Debnam. as a vocal journalist, a representative
of the new age, a supplanter of the political spell-binder,
drew a record-breaking crowd here Saturday night and
for that crowd he painted vividly, in strong words, the
one great national danger cf our time bureaucracy —
with the shadows of little men in Congress bowing
down before it as to a god.
He ended his address on a note of hope, the hope that
American people, a free and an independent people re
presented into the thousands by those who gathered
here in Person Court House to hear him, would not in i
this day be side-tracked from the tradition of “govern
ment of the people, for the people and by the people ,
and afterwards, in private conversation he issued to
the Lester Blackwell Post a challenge, saying that they
and others in the American Legion must meet the issue
for good government by becoming a “giving rather than
a getting organization.”
This challenge is a good one, not nearly as paradoxi
cal as it seems, and if the Legion that is now sending
its sons into battle, not only from Roxboro but from a
thousand Posts, can lead the nation into a spirit of giv
ing rather than receiving we sha’l have no need to
worry about the bureaucracy monster. We agree with
Debnaim in all this, most particularly with regards to
the duty that confronts us, provided only that we hold
fast in government to as much of independence as can
be mustered.
There should be no giving on that score, and as a
solemn warning of our own we might add that the men
in Washington can be and are no smaller than those of
us who are back home. They represent us. The
shadows are the same and we should in justice look at
our own reflections before we cast stones at those in
Washington.
This Body, The Earth,
In New York this week last words were said over the
bodies of two men who must be remembered in Ameri
can annals for vastly different reasons.
Money was power, and as long a > he lived it spoke
for John Pierpont Morgan. The word was power, too,
and Stephen Vincent Benet, the poet, who died on the
same day, knew in equai measure the glory of that
power. For Morgan and for Benet there was an Amer- j
ican dream. Morgan had money and inherited with j
it from his father the responsibility of carrying for- j
ward an economic trust. Benet, from his forebears, i
caught a different trust of patriotism, and had the
gift of giving it expression, most memorably in the
long narrative poem, “John Brown’s Body”, and in the
fantasy, “The Devil and Daniel Webster”.
Benet, in his own words, those describing John
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Brown,
was a lover of certain pastoral things.
He had the shepherd’s gift.
When he walked at peace, when he drank from the
watersprings.
His eyes would lift
To see God, robed in a glory, but sometimes, too,
Merely the sky,
He could take a lump of any earth in his hand
And feel the growing.”
Morgan, the financier, could feel no more, and for
him, as for George M. Cohan, whose life story has been
viewed here this week in Cagney’s interpretation, the
customs of the present age seemed not to fit into a
pattern. By that much, at least, Benet, the poet, has
a stronger hold on immortality.
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The Women March
Held here this week and concluded yesterday was a
series of canning and food conservation demonstrations
bv Miss Anamerle Arant, district home agent of the
State College Extension service. Miss Arant had m her
selected groups of women, those fitted by
as nutritionists and as community leaders/ to
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carry to other women throughout Person County and
Roxboro needed lessons in how to get the most out of
the least.
But, as Mrs. Philip L. Thomas, herself a nutritionist
and chairman of the Nutrition Committee, suggests,
the work generated at the conferences with Miss Arant
has only begun. There must be a thorough integration
of the knowledge of when and where and how to utilize
foods to greatest advantage. There must be awaken
ed here a new consciousness of the place of the home
garden in the family plan for living.
War or no war, we are rather inclined to be skeptical
anent the work that can be done by (mere organization,
but we shall be disappointed if this newest subdivision
of Red Cross educational effort does not turn out to
be one of the most effective war-agents hereabouts.
When wotnen put their minds to it they can do won
ders, and so we issue to tha husbands of sector and
block leaders a warning that the women are or| the
march. And when they march there is in their stride
the strength of ten thousand tanks, plus the sword of
the Lord and of Gideon.
No Fooling, Please
Complicated beyond measure by new r classes of
farm deferments is the work of the Person Selective
board, although, as announced last week, the coopera
tion of the USDA War board in sifting out bona fide
cases is expected to be helpful. Decision as to who
goes and who stays is in any instance a difficult mat
ter, but it is to be feared that some citizens whose
patriotism cannot otherwise be questioned will use the
farm deferment plea to an unfair advantage.
The new farm deferment plan, as we understand it,
stipulates that as many as twelve crop units are to be
required for each farm man who is deferred. It is
also our understanding that the units vary “in point
value”, that is to say, certain crops, more directly re
lated to food production, have a higher value. This
means that farmers who wish to be honestly patriotic
will see to it that their lands produce not those crops
which are most convenient to raise, nor those having
largest cash value, but rather those which in a planned
economy are most needed to boost to proper levels the
nation’s food resources.
It means, too, that farm families can and should de
termine just how much manpower (or womanpower)
will be needed on their farms. The fartn exemption
and deferment policy must not and cannot be turned
into a racket, else there will be created in the nation as
(much or more farm deferment dissention as has been
stirred up here and there over alleged preferences ex
tended to organized labor.
We are glad that the Selective Service board here will
have the help of the USDAJboard as a determining body
and we think we are right in saying that the tradition
here among farmers is strongly moral and American
where patriotism is concerned.
WITH OTHER EDITORS
An Incentive To Production
County Gentleman
It would be hard to find a Government farm policy
that has had a more encouraging effect than Secretary
Wickard’s action in putting a $13.25 Chicago base price
under hogs. Before that, with the uncertainties con
nected with price ceilings, farmers could not go ahead
with any feeling of safety. Setting the price floor was
just the step needed to give them confidence.
Reports from various parts of the country indicate
that the 15 per cent increase in production asked for in
1943 may be obtained. Even in the face of labor and
material shortages, enough farmers seem willing to
make the try.
The promising results of this action should suggest a
similar policy toward other badly needed farm products.
Industrial war producers do their work on a contract
basis, which assures them against uncertainty. Why
shouldn’t farmers, engaged in equally necessary war
production, be given similar assurance through reason
able forward and floor prices?
Truly Rural
Greensboro Daily News
While we doubt not that the address of Mrs. Eleanor
Roosevelt to Barnard college women on the subject of
British women’s helpfulness on farms was both infor
mative and inspirational, we have little hope for direct
results in the production of larger food surpluses.
One thing we are confident no farmer needs added to
his present harassment is a flock of city-bred college
gals.
A bit of home-gardening by all possible hands may be
in order; but the average college student, male or fe
male, would hardly be worth transportation charges to
and from the farm during the current growing season.
And we suspect those who did not (make the grade of
soldier, sailor or marine would be WAAC, WAVE pr
SPAR by the time the fields were ripe to the harvest.
As one of the country boys from whom town has been
unable to remove the country, we realize that it takes
time for rus to acclimate himself in urbe but we doubt
seriously if the transmogrification is as difficult for
vice as for versa.
City slickers in slacks take a better picture perhaps;
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but the real help to farming from the schools will come
in making the farm youngsters realize that their ser
vices are appreciated.
We do not presume to advise Mrs. Roosevelt; but
she would accomplish more by attending meetings of
4-H clubs than having tea poured for her on the cam
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FARMERS MUST
HAVE PERMITS TO
DELIVER MEAT
Person USDA Board Will
Issue Permits Says Hall
Farmers who kill animals for
home use do not need a slaugh
ter permit, but they are requir
ed to secure one if they delivor
any part of the meat to others,
says I. O. Schaub, director of ex
tension at N. C. State College.
The Government issued three
permit orders which become es-1
fective after midnight March 31.
They require: (1) All Livestock
slaughterers who sell meat, in
cluding farmers and local butch
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ers, to operate under a slaughter
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permit system and, as an aid to
enforcement, to stamp their per- .
mit number at least once cn each 1
wholesale cut; |
)2) All livestock dealers to ob- 1 ]
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tain permits to buy and sell live-, ]
stock and to keep complete re- ] j
cords of their operations (Farm-|*
ers are not required to obtain ■
dealer permits, but they are ask
ed to keep records of their pur
chases and sales);
(3) All slaughters, operating'
under Federal inspection, are to |
set aside designated percentages]
of their production for war
! uses.
I The stamping of all meat isj
specifically designed to halt the
black market operator. It alfto;
acts to curb the sale of meat.
from diseased animals. Accord-:
ing to iSchaub, growlers, who ob-!
tain permits for the delivery of,
meat directly to consumers, may
comply with the permit require- j
ments by attaching tags, show- 1
ing the permit number, to the
meat' hey deliver.
The dealer in livestock gets no
stamp of any kind, but he must
keep full records on all sales. |
The authorities have requested.
all livestock producers, packers, I
dealers, health officials, and con
sumers to aid in eliminating the
illegal slaughtering, selling and
distribution of meats,
j The Person USDA War Board
has been charged with two res
ponsibilities under newi orders
issued by Secretary of Agricul- 1
ture Wickard in a move to stamp
out black market activities, ac- 1
cording to Claude T. Hall, chair- 1
man of the board.
“The County War Board will
be responsible for issuing per- j
mits under the first and second
orders’', the chairman said, j
j ‘‘Farmers vho slaughter for sale,
| local slaughterers and butchers
! will obtain their permits from
J the War Board, as will livestock 1
( dealers who buy and sell ani-!
mals for slaughter purposes."
He emphasized that farmers
who slaughter for home use are
not required to obtain permits,
neither are they required to ob
tain permits to sell live animals.
He said that the orders also
provide that farmers, butchers,
and packers who go over their
quotas within the next three
weeks, before the order becomes
effective will have these quotas i
reduced for later periods. Live-]
• stock dealers will be required to 1
| establish inventories and keep ]
complete records of purchases!
and sales. j
| “These orders are not designed j
’ to work a hardship on these per- j
sons who buy and sell and
slaughter animals for meat pur
poses,” Chairman Hall said.
‘They are being put into effect;
to eliminate black market actiyi
. ties and to insure a fair distribu
! tion to civilians prior to the
J tine when rationing of meat is.
started.
He said check on amount of |
slaughtering will be maintained
through the requirement that all]
wholesale cuts of meat must be]
stamped with the slaughterer’s
permit number.
PORTRAIT PRESENTED
RALEIGH, March 17. A
portrait of Dean Thomas Nelson,
head of the N. C. (Sjtate College,
Textile School for the past 42
years, iw,as presented to the Tex
tile School by Thompkins Tex- 1
tile Society, Phi Psi and Sigma
Tau Sigma, organization of tex-]
tile students.
It was painted by Isabelle
Henderson of Raleigh.
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THURSDAY, MARCH 18, 1943
Last year farmers repaid a
total of $28,000,000 on loans ad
ministered by the Emergency
Crop and Feed Loan Offices as
compared to the $19,500,000
which they borrowed during the
year.
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