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f THE PERQUIMANS WEEKLY, HERTFOBD, N. V FRIDAY, AUGUST 8, 194f PAGE THREE & LOOIUG AT VASIMGTON By Hugo & Sims, Washington Correspondent - Oil Control Coming. On Atlantic Seaboard ' Consumers of oil products along the Atlantic Seaboard, from Maine to Florida, may soon find their use of gasoline seriously curtailed on ac- V count of the shortage of oil products, due largely to the transfer of tankers to the war effort ' Already there are hints that mo- .torists may be permitted to buy only five gallons of gasoline a week, it 'Vis known that the whole matter of rationing has been under serious ' consideration and that stringent reg ulations will be necessary in Septem ber. should be understood that the restrictions are due to reduced v transportation facilities and not to a shortage of oil products. On March 15 there were 346 tankers of 2,000 ' gross tons or over, under U. S. reg istry. In May, 60 tankers were transferred to British use, which re duced the potential supply by 200,000 ' barrels of oil a day. The transfer oi lou aacuuonai tankers is underway. The effect of these transfers is clearly seen when rare recall that tankers have hereto fore supplied more than ninety per cent of the oil consumed on the At lantic Seaboard. v- MhUe it is possible that the Pacific Northwest may be affected by the shortage of tankers, no other parts of the United States will sutler se- rious difficulties in connection with t oil products. Ithe East Coast usually consumes ; r more than one-third of the .motor A fuel used in the United (States ana t olnos tn fifHr nor cent of kernseiie and other fuel oil. To relieve the situation, the industry has under consideration the construction of pipe lines which will require more than a year to complete. Consequently, re strictions upon the use of oil pro ducts are necessary. According to preliminary reports, filling stations will be closed at least twelve hours daily. Fifty Billions In Defense Contracts An analysis of recent appropria tions and contract authorizations for t defense purposes made by the Bu ;yeau of Research and Statistics of the .Office of Production Management, shows that $50,785,000,000 have been i allotted to the defense effort. u' 'Ij'.e break-down for commitments I of the United States and Great Bri t tain in this country shows that the money is being expended as follows: Airplanes, $11,967,000,000. ' Naval vessels, merchant ships and , transportation equipment, $8,483,- 000,00. Guns and ammunition, $8,081,- 000,000. i Industrial facilities, $5,530,000,000. Posts, Deports and other non-industrial construction, $4,353,010,000. Other equipment, $4,000,000,000. Miscellaneous items, $8,381,000,000. Nw Taxes To Pay For Nations' Safety. The new tax bill, under considera tion in Congress, is to provide about $3,00,000,000 revenue, in addition to present sources of income. It will be felt by nearly everybody. The enormous expenditures being .made for defense necessitate some (contributions on the part of taxpa7- AM ' I 'Vl t WA.fAnl.A tvi niiiaA ...111 nm I Will Gill , phpsize the world crisis, in the minds or some Americans, more tnan ail the killing that has occurred in the Far East, Europe and Africa. Gradually, the people of the United States are beginning to compreheno tha all-out defense requires sacri fices. Hitler's running amuck in Eu rope affects communities and indi viduals throughout the United States. In view of the general support for the nation's defense program, even by those who sternly oppose involve ment in war, one might conclude that isolation, as a national policy, has "Mled.. Even the bitter-enders, a- ong the isolationists, are for a i rongly-armed America. The joker in this isolation idea is that we are affected by Hitler's arm ed .might, even though he does not tttack us. We never know what he may decide to do. Consequently, we must arm ourselves to the teeth, "just in case." All-out defense, by any nation, in this modern era, is a national undertaking. .. There was a time when the defense of a nation could be left to the Navy and the Army. This is not true now. Mechanized warfare has made an army as weak as its industry and aerial warfare has brought the hor rorjtbf war. into the nursery. It is a frightful business but until peace is possible in the world there is no course for us except to be ready to f ightkif and when necessary. ' , . ijr. . ; Inflation Threatens. ; .v?:CoiltroNeeeBsa7.iV,', Spending. $30,000,000 a day for de Lnse, the United States plans to in rease'its expenditures and fears the sequences, especially in regard to ices which, will inevitably bound up ?.r4 under the pressure of. 'enter , mcy' demands. - Vlv'v" S"T President'; Roosevelt has requested Jongrfess for legislation to. deal with , i'.e threat of Inflationary, price rises hicflT will increase the cost of living i may seriously threaten - v the "nomic well-toeing" of the nation. Pointing out -that consumers-with ,ter incomes, are ' in the market -a ete&l"j, decreasing supply of ' 6iiS4W'(iu'.. ' '.?''' Farm Price Of goods, the Chief Executive adds that this, increasing demand coincides with increasing government demand. The result, unless something is done a bout it, will be that the bidding for existing supplies will force large In creases in price. The President's message to Con gress explained that the nation stands now, as it did in 1915, "at the beginning of an upward sweep of the whole price structure." Here are some of the facts presented: By the end of June 28 basic com modities had advanced 50 per cent beyond the August, 1939, level, with 24 per cent being recorded since January. Index of 900 wholesale commodi ties up 17 per cent, with 10 per cent recorded since January and, in the past sixty days, going up five times as fast rs during the preceding period since the outbreak of the war abroad. Index of the cost of living has ad vanced 5 per cent, with 3 per cent being recorded since January, and, in the past sixty days, going up five times as fast as during the preceding period since the outbreak of the war abroad. Index of the cost of living has ad vanced 5 per cent, with 3 per cent being recorded since January and "the upward pressure is now intense." For twelve months, as the Presi dent said, the nation has tried to maintain a stable level of prices by "enlisting the voluntary cooperation of business," which has been indirect and circumscribed, challenged ana evaded. The Congress will hardly fail to take appropriate action. The nation has abundant knowledge of the evil consequences of inflation and the damage that can be brought about by a false boom. There will be some outcries, of course, because specula tors and others are anxious to taue advantage of the situation to their own profit. U. S. Battleships Fear War In Pacific. "How many battleships has the United iStates in the Pacific?" This is one of the questions that the public generally asks in connec tion with the critical condition in the Far East, where it is believed the Japanese will continue their aggres sion until brought to bay by the arm ed might of western powers. Naturally, the Navy can hardly be expected to run banner-headlines to advise the Japanese of the exact strength of the fleet in the Pacific. Moreover, if we knew the exact num ber we wouldn't tell. This merelj explains that the discussion of our strength is entirely unofficial ana without any "inside information." Under the disarmament treaties the United States has fifteen battle ships, three of them being on the East Coast. This gave us a battle fleet in the Pacific of twelve battle ships. Two new battleships, the Nortu Carolina and the Washington, are m service. Whether they are in tae Atlantic or Pacific is not to be pro claimed. Neither will the Navy con firm the report that several battle ships have been transferred from tne Pacific to the Atlantic ocean. The Japanese were allowed nine capital ships, in the disarmament pacts. Since Japan gave notice of her intention to abrogate the naval limitations agreement it is fairly obvious that the Japs got a head-on start on us in the construction of cap ital ships. Nobody knows how many Japan has constructed but there are reports that she has nine, or more, completed, or under way. Cotton Not Retail Price Factor The improved farm prices of cot ton in the past several months may not be considered determining fac tors in the relatively increased prices of finished cotton goods says E. Y. Floyd, AAA executive officer at State College. "Rather," Floyd reports, "the in creased 'spread' of profit to the cot ton manufacturer has been tagged as responsible for the rapid increase in the price of cotton products. "While the farm price of cotton was moving up three cents a pound between June, 1940, and June, 1941, mill margins for cotton manufacture were moving up 11 cents a pound.' Last May, when a consumer bought an ordinary dollar cotton shirt, he paid less than nine cents to the farmer who spent a whole year in producing the cotton that went to make the shirt even less than the laundry price for washing the gar ment once." This year, for the first time in the history of the nation's oldest "money crop," the farmer has a government guaranteed price for cotton under the AAA loan program. The guar anteed price to the farmer, with loans at 85 per cent of the parity price, is 13.43 cents a pound for 1941 cotton, Floyd says. The same labor employed In cotton manufacturing plants produced 110.7 per cent more cotton goods in March of this year than for the average month of 1940, Floyd adds. On the basis of the consumer cost of the finished cotton article in March of this year, the farm price of the lint seed would have been 19 cents a pound, whereas, it was actu ally several cents a pound lower. "So, it is easy to see," the AAA leader concluded, "that the farm price of cotton is not pushing up the retail cost." Amazon Brazil contains the great est variety of trees of any known forest area, the Department of Com merce says. Bonner Seeking Jo Name New Destroyer In Honor Fessenden Congressman Herbert C. Bonner has requested the Secretary of the Navy, Honorable Frank Knox, to consider naming one of the new de stroyers now under construction, "The Fessenden" in honor of Pro fessor R. A. Fessenden, a pioneer in radio, the inventor of the fathometer, a scientist of international note. ' Professor Fessenden was a Lieu tenant, Senior grade in the Naval Reserve and conducted his wireless experiments on Roanoke Island. Better Chicks Mean More Eggs In Basket farm flock production and the pro duction of pullet flocks from which hens are selected to produce ROP cockerels. One way to make certain that chicks purchased are sired by N. C. ROP males is to get them from Cer tified or Verified hatcheries. County agents have available lists containing the names of these approved hatch eries or the information may be ob tained from the poultry department of the College. BURGESS NEWS Here's a tip from C. J. Maupin, extension poultryman of N. C. State College, to the poultry grower inter ested in increasing his egg produc tion: Buy only certified chicks sired by pedigreed cockerels. The grower following this advice would boost his average flock pro duction by 25 or more eggs- per hen annually. Then, too, the general use of such chicks in maintaining the laying flock, together with good feed ing, care and management, would provide several billion additional eggs a year for national defense, needs. To qualify for U. S. Record of Per formance rating under the National Poultry Improvement Plan, cockerels must ibe from hens laying, more than 200 eggs a year. The NPIP is a co operative effort to improve poultry flocks. Because the sire and dam are equally responsible for the level of production in the offspring, Maupin predicts ROP cockerels, or males of equally good pedigree, used in the average poultry flock, would raise the State's average annual production of 85 eggs per hen to 110 or more. This increase the specialist ex plained is midway between average Mrs. Tommie Matthews is attend ing Farm and Home Week at State College, Raleigh, this week. Mr. and Mrs. S. P. Matthews and Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Basnight attended the Home-coming at New Hope Church Sunday. Mrs. Howard Godwin has returned to her home in Portsmouth, Va., af ter spending a few days with her mother, Mrs. H. S. Davenport. Mrs. H. R. Winslow is spending the week with Mrs. J. B. Basnignt. Mrs. Thomas Watson, of Salisbury, Md., is the house guest of her sister, Mrs. Linwood Hunter. Shelton Davenport was discharged from Albemarle Hospital, Elizabeth City, Sunday. Alton Matthews spent the week end with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. :S. P. Matthews. Miss Elizabeth Nixon spent a few days last week with her sister, Mrs. Sidney Layden. CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR GROUP MEETS The Christian Society for the young people of Berea Christian Church met Thursday night, July 31, at the home of Miss Gladys Godfrey. Several members were present. Two visitors, Miss Virginia Harris and Ambrose Long, were also present. YOUR KODAK FILM DEVELOPED AND PRINTED 25c 6 or 8 exposure roll film developed and printed all for 25 cents. Post age 3 cents extra. 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