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T ,- i" ."""r ruuu WEEKLY, HERTFORD. N. G, FRIDAY, MAY 9. 1941 Kyes OirtclecNmenil fn You fomUM WHO 8 AID "PETTING"? IVu a funny thing about facte. Men take a long time to discover ad accept, obvious truths that have been good through the cen turies. Tinkering with the natural - . is thumbing your nose at facts. Trouble usually begins when man attempts to ' do unnatural things, such as limiting the products of the land by law. iy It is like pass Zing a law requir ing all water to flow unhill. iust to try to get rid of a seasonal -pond or a creek in an undesirable location. It would be a lovely law, but the water would still flow the same old way. Laws which limit production from the land, assuming that the land or its fertility is not destroyed there by, are equally unnatural. One needs only to read the re ports of recent conventions of farm organizations to realize that rural America is not exactly sat . is fled with its place in the picture. To put it mildly, there is a grow g suspicion that farm progress Ms been in the wrong direction. It has not been convincingly demonstrated that too much food hasjever been grown in this coun try. Everyone knows that there are millions of people who do not get better than a subsistence diet. Something pretty wonderful would happen to the health of this nation if it were possible for tveryonl to enjoy the kind of ibundant diet most readers of this column take as a matter of course. The real problem is not how much, but how to get food to the people that need it, and at the same time assure an adequate net; return to the farmer. Looking at one end of the problem, authori ties in farm management are be ginning to have new respect for an old fact: that the family-sized term is the economic unit with the greatest possibilities in Amer ican agriculture, t Any sound program to stabilize agriculture must look to the re establishment of the family farm (n a sound business basis. It has ad a lot of body blows from so called commercial farming, but it not only must be made to survive but also to predominate. Just what does such re-establishment entail? Two things, at least: Ownership and proper equipment; both on terms which can be met without an annual crisis that often is a catastrophe. The farmer has always paid high interest rates. The reasons are not as important as the conse quences. The farmer that is hope lessly in debt can't be a good farmer. His load won't let him! There are more than six million farms in this country. What could be better assurance of rural well being than six million family owned and operated farms, ade quately financed and adequately equipped? Government has toyed With methods of rehabilitation as a sociological mission. Yet it has been true over the years that so ciology takes care, of itself if busi ness considerations are equitable tpvaM concerned. f Right now the RFC is offering industry money at 1V4 on bank able defense orders. That is ad- mirable, and proper. But farm ing is defense production, too. As the man says, raising food is de- - fense, than which there is nothing ;than-whicher. The country ex pects the farmer to supply the . food, but it seems to take for ; granted that he can equip him self to do it out of the thin air. Industry isn't asking to be pet , ted, but only to be loaned the! uvucjr il ueeoa u) g going. II there is anv consiriernhl nnmhav of .farmers that want to be petted, we hayen't heard of them. But iney would sit up and take notice ' of the same kind of inBn t .'. looks. like it Was time m or - national slogan: Let's Retool the' Fanner. Toot Anniversary Sale Ifow In Fiill Swing . The W, M. Morgan Furniture Store, celebrating its 27th year in business is 1 now conducting its annual Anni versary Sale7. The Sale lasts through out the month at Mv nnrf gains la the furniture line are being orarea to friends and customers of Uhi store at , big savings. -; ' Mr. Morgan, states that as soon as twenty-five 'per cent of his present large etocK is sold he will be loofa to oiaconunue nis present dis count on goods due to the rising prices' on furniture Items. Thei-Aftr he advises those in the market for furniture : to purchase while the rices are still low. ' CHAMPION GRANDFATHER? Colorado' Springs, ' Col.I-T. R. owler, 84, believes he is the chain ion grandf ather - of the nation and ill for challengers to his Record, "e has 82 direct descendants; twelve ildren,:62 grandchildren,, . aadL18 it-grsnddUIJren. IGCcrlonlsOf a .... , .... t. .. Surplus Foods Are Distributed In N. C. Distribution of Rlirnllls fnnA nm ducts in North Carolina totaled 1,900 carloads or 63,030,316 pounds during me iz-monw nenod from inrii 1940, through March of this year, ac cording to A. E. Lammtnn. Staf. di rector of community distribution for me oiate welfare department. LanSTSton COmDarerf the Knrth Par. olina figures "with an estimated 95, 000 carloads distributed in the same period throughout the nation and valued the state receipts at a retail price of $3,753,134 against the national esti mated value of $187,656,700 distri buted in food supplies to needy per sons. An average of 43.640 cases re- presentinsr 282.498 Demons wpi-p served each month of the year, with 1 i,iHsl of the individuals being under nourished graded school pupils. The school lunch reciDienta rerpiveH tho highest value of food per person per meal, slightly in excess of five cents. General relief families trot nparlv 1 8 cents worth of food each day on the average of the year's distribution. Not intended to exist as a family's total food supply, the surplus pro ducts are distributed to tippHv r- sons to aid in balancing their diets and adding to their regular food pur- cnases items produced in excess quantity. Distributions are made in several North Carolina communities solely under the stamp plan whereby recip ients trade their stamna at. stores for certain designated articles wnen making their regular purchas es. Lunch rooms and most counties of the state are served from ware houses in the community supplied from area storerooms twice each month. Carload quantities of various class es of food distributed were as fol lows: eggs, 114; milk products, 62; fresh fruits, 628; dried and canned fruits, 91; grain products, 383; vege tables, 386. meat products, 180; nuts. 2; total, 1,900 cars. Distribution was made to a month ly average of 197.556 nonmns general relief; 77,981 in school lunch rooms; ,2,818 in institutions; 2,338 on housekeeping and demonstration pro jects; 133 in children's camps; and 1,672 in NYA resident training centers. Chevrolet Serves The Army; Building New Trucks ; Thousands of Chevrolet 1-tnn trucks, especially designed for the United States Armv. are alreniv nn the job and thousands more are on the way to meet the needs of Na tional letense. Known , man svf , . W JUVll Uj. the army as "4x4's," which means four wheels, all driven, or four wheel drive, these ' ivuuifj irom tne assembly lines of Chevro let's srreat assemblv nlanta cally located throughout the coun try, designed for Autv in al branch of the new mechanized and motorized army. Developed bv Chevrolet i n r annot ation with flrrov Gnmnefira inH ac cepted by the armv rnlv afw ous testincr. these unite a series of advancements in military design, prime among which is the new 235 cu. in. valve-in-TieaH oncn'na This engine develops 93 horsepower and 192 ft. Jbs. of torque, at from i.uuu to i,9UO revolutions per minute. Rugrsredlv built. t.hes v,n-00o are designed for rough going over all iwiius 01 roads and often even over terrain where no roarla are designed to keep the new army romng ana, like the army, they can take it! Motorization of the veloped new tactical concepts. Mass movements that formerly took days and weeks now take hours, as did recently a motorized march of the entire 4th Division from Fnrt Ron. ning, Ga., to a point over 200 miles south on the Florida Gulf coast. Un der the command of Major-General Lloyd R. Fredenhall, this unit, the first completely motorized division in the army, negotiated the distance with its entire personnel and equip ment in 10 hours. Men, guns, medi cal battalion, engineer companies, field kitchens, signal equipment and all, rolled over the countryside in three great columns, averaging 45 each in length. Cilroy, Calif. Thieves climbed eight power poles and ran the risk of being electrocuted when they cut loose and stole 5,000 feet of copper wire from the Storms ranch. PAGE THREE Summer Shelters Prove Profitable Summer ranee shelters will nav an much on the investment as any other expenauure the poultryman can make, according to T. T. Brown, ex tension poultryman of N. C. State College. Where more than 100 birds are kept, the shelter results in feed economy and healthier, more thrifty pullets. This assures the producer of a more economical egg production and a lower pullet mortality. "In order to face competition more successfully," Brown stated, "the poultry raiser should be inter- colcu in any piece or equipmentyor practice that reallv riven realilta iiVi as the summer range shelter does." When the shelter is placed on clean land where ample tender green feed and shade are available, it will cost much less to feed pullets than if the birds were confined to a small yard or bare lot. Where the pullets range on a green crop such as lespedeza or soybeans, they will get something that the feed manufacturer has not been able to put in the feed bag. The shelter that Extension Service poultrymen have found to be the most- economical and most satisfac tory is A-shaped with the eaves a bout two feet from the ground and the peak of the roof about five feet, ten inches. The shelter is 9 by 10 feet in size and will accommodate 100 pullets. "The use of the summer range sneiter neips to eliminate disease and intestinal parasites, puts vigor into the pullets, and makes for better egg size and production hv nrnnprlv , aeveioping the birds," Brown said NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATION Having qualified as Administrators of the estate of W. M. Carter. He. ceasea, late of Perquimans County North Carolina, this is to notify all i-craons naving claims against the estate of said deceased to exhibit them to the undersigned at Durants in-cit, in. on or before the 14th day of April, 1942, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recov ery. All persons indebted to estate will please make immediate payment. This 14th day of Apru, 1941. H. C. BARCLIFT EVELYN B. CARTER Administrators of W. M. Carter. apr.l8,25,may2,9,16,23 NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATION Havintr aualifiori o , oftheeStateofXw.Tude! S'rV' Per-ansg County North Carolina. fhi. ; t Persons havin, d Ui saia deceased to exhibit them to the undersigned at Hertford, N. C, on or before the 2nd day of April, 1942, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said estate will please make immediate payment. This 2nd day of April, 1941. J. R. STOKES, D. J. PRITCHARD, Administrators of A. W. Roughton. apr.4,ll,18,15,may2,9 TONSIL CLINIC Every Tuesday - Thursday During MAY AND JUNE Dr. Ward's Office HERTFORD, N. C. CLASSIFIED AND LEGALS ROLL FILM DEVEIiOPED 1 Velox Prints 25 cents, 24 hours. Film Service, Box 2205, Philadel phia, Penna. may9,16,23,30pd FOR SALE OLI NEWSPAPERS 5c per bundle. Call at The Per quimans Weekly Office. FINDS POT O'StLVES Griffin, Ga. Wesley Cochran was digging: in flower hedn wV.o v,; shovel struck something which turn ed out to be an iron boiler. Un earthed, the pot was found to con tain $62.50 in silver coin, the newest of which was dated 1901. AUTO AND PERSONAL LOANS See Us Personally Before Purchasing an Automobile. No Investigation Charge. 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