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PAGE THREE But with the farmers, the food indus try, and our transportation system working together at peak efficiency and at the same time increase our production of guns. Only a nation with energv, vision, and industrial LOOKING AT WASHINGTON B Hugo S. Sims. Wellington Correspondent THIS BUSINESS AC it can be done. We can produce more "know how could put over sucn an food than we've ever produced before undertaking. THE PERQUIMANS WEEKLY, HERTFORD, N. C, FRIDAY, JANUARY 15, 1943 1HHI 1 i ,f new Face Problem, atdon Needs Food, abor Supply Short. .rublem df the farmer has be hat of ' the nation. Despite prices fpr farm products, the fttirist Is short of labor, and ' i lery but confronted with a war- emand for increased produc- labor situation is aggravated i rh industrial wages which m- workers to leave the farm. are drafted into active ser- Even the Government expects than one million workers to the farms in 1943. Already Iction in some lines, notably products, is being reduced by - kck of labor. p problem is not altogether due ie war. By the census ot i40, were 6,096,799 farms in the id States. Of these, two million, bout one-third, produced only percent, of the nation's food, her one million farmers in the higher income groups contribut- j ji ery little to the country's food " has lwen known for years that, ;ohiaft regions, in Southeastern ! States, the Ozarks and in a irjsections, farm families ,ing to eke out a living on 0 small, or on land too poor, Lc .Itle-'hore than the barest sub- is one remembers that the past -oduced bumper crops, thanks 1 seasons, and that the pro for; 1943 involves the produc er seventeen per cent, more ., twenty-six per cent, more poul , two percent, more milk, thirty- per . cent, more peanuts, more 3 and bigger crops of soybeans, rotatoes and feed grains like :.h, oats and barley, and that in ad of an increased supply of farm Jxr,' there will be a net loss of more than one billion farm workers, 'ie mjnitude of the problem will appreciated. 1 . ny'a Growth Inspiring. ! v , rncrease Twenty-Fold. Th ..rplof the United States lavs 'ery reason to be proud of the -siade' by the Army, which, as f Stimson points out, has cm ' ,265,000 men yi July, more ,than 6,000,000 men, 30,000 already overseas, on stupendous growth naturally i many prQblem.s and diffi , The rapidly expanding Army not increase its size twenty tn Wi"" maBng mistSkes. ra Involved 'personnel and mater but a; we face the future, there reneral agreement that the Army "the beat equipped for war the rld bas ever seen." The Secretary of War pays tribute the work done by General George Marshall, Chief of Staff, and his ssociates. He warns against ap . eals arising from "the spurious pa riotism". that would seek to strip a em from their responsibility, saying t would be a rash thing for any man without their information and raining "to challenge their mature wisiona. The growth of the Army has been equalled by that of the Air Force. From 80,000 men, with 2,175 pilots in the summer of 1940, the Air Force , now contains "well over 1,000,000 men with tens of thousands of pilots." We have moved e long way from two yeari ago when there was not 1 enough ammunition in the country to S supply our forces now overseas for a single day's fighting; Moreover, in the making of arms, our production has been multiplied twenty times. , The American Army, says Mr. Stimson, is being organized in units equipped and trained as tactical units before they leave these shores. He tftressAfl the fact that our rifles, tanks. ; (self-propelled artillery and airplanes Vara among the world's best. Stimson declares that the sol are being trained "with . more licitous care for their health and any other points out "is a sober M Mr, Mens f lelfare than those of in hiHtorv." He .that the average soldier man," declaring that only ten per cent, drink distilled liquors. The Secretary adds that "their at tendance at church far exceeds the rate of attendance by civilians and that the general disease rate, includ ing venereal disease, "is less than in any previous war " Pearl Haroor Humiliating. Our Forces Were Surprised. Jap Treachery Evoected. The American Wnite Book, recently issued by the State Department, which reviewed ten years of American diplomacy preceding Pearl Harbor, reveals that Ambassador Grew warn ed from Tokyo that there was danger that the Japanese might launch a "surprise mass attack at Pearl Har bor" in case of trouble with the United States." While the warning of.the Ambassa dor was timely, the past history of Japan clearly revealed Japanese strategy. Repeatedly, against the Chinese, the Japanese Army moved without notice and without declara tion of war. In beginning the war with Russia, the Japanese instituted a surprise attack without any declara tion of war. Practically every American, includ ing officers of the Army and Navy, familiar with the history of Japan, expected a surprise attack in the event 'that Japan decided to wage war against the United iStates. While the Japanese attack upon the American fleet in Pearl Harbor was treacherous, it was also humiliat ing to the United States. It is hard o understand the amazing success of the attack ,Which caught oui- armed forces flatwbted in the Hsftvaiian Is It is worth noting, however, that the surprise achieved at Pearl Harbor was duplicated, tome hours later, in the Philippine Islands when Japan ese aviators succeeded in damaging most of the airplanes that were as signed for service there. While battleship' were the chief victims of the attack at Pearl Har bofc it has been revealed that at the time at least two naval task forces, including carriers, were at sea. Cer tainly, the Japanese eluded the, vig ilance of these vessels and tliea planes. Moreover, they managed to avoid discovery by the long-range aerial patrol that was operating in the Is lands. Unfortunately, there was a failure to properly evaluate the pres ence of a small Jap sub, discovered before the attack, or to take advant age, of the fact that the Japanese planes were "discovered" by the sound detection appartus. With more than a year behind us, since the disaster at Pearl Harbor and with most of the damage repair ed, the nation can take pride in what its fighting men have accomplished in the Pacific since that time. How ever, we must continue to mourn the loss of the brave men who were killed and regret the unfortunate failure which permitted the Japanese to de liver such a humiliating blow. We Fight in Self-Defenae. Isolationists Resurgent. Ray Tucker writes that "the belief widely held here (Washington) is that the United States will be more isolated following this struggle than it was after the first World War." It is hard to believe that the people of the United States will make the same mistake twice but there is a possibility that Brother Tucker is rieht for once. Already, the politi cians are Davinc the way for the catastrophe by adopting extremely critical attitudes toward everything connected with the war. Mysteriously, there seems to be a failure of some citizens to under stand why we are at war. The Gal lup poll indicates that a large per centage of Americans do not have a clear idea of why we are engaged in the greatest war of our history. This' is more than amazing, it is a na tional catastrophe. The same people have another fancy of the same type, that Russia is fighting for us and that anybody who engages the Axis anywhere is fighting for love of the good United SUSAN THAYfft GUNS AND BUTTER We used to feel a great deal of pity for those poor German women who had to do largely without butter and other table luxuries in order that their country could build guns and more guns. It never occurred to us in those lavish days of a few years ago that some day we should have to do with a lot less butter and coffee and meat and fruit than we wanted. But coffee rationing has begun. You're lucky if you can get more than a quarter of a pound of butter, and canned goods rationing has been announced. So it seems that we, the privileged people of the earth, are going to have to pull in our belts and really do without! But think what a difference! We're not going to stint ourselves on butter and meat and fru't because we're producing less of these supplies, i We re actually producing much more of most of them. And we're not be ing cut down in order to build the materials needed for war because war production was increasing anyhow. Hut today America is fighting with both guns and butter. One reason for States. This reasoning, conversely, leads these same simple-minded souls into the hallucination that we are fighting for the Russians, the Chin ese, the British and other subject peoples. There is only one reason for our participation in the present war. It is the aggression of the Axis pow ers, including Japan, which made it as clear as daylight, to everybody except the congenital pacifists and the political isolationists, that, in time, the free-booting nations would gang- up upon the United States. There is positive proof to this ef fect. Japan attacked the United States in December, 1941, and within four days, Germany and Italy declar ed war upon us. Our declarations of war were meaningless, except that they assured the world that we were possessed of enough intelligence to recognize what had happened and that we had the courage to fight for our national existence. While every one of the t'r.ited Nations profits by the exertions of the other, insofar as they contribute to the downfall of the aggressors, each and every United Nation is at war in its own protection and in its own defense. If ever a group of na tions fought in self-defense, the United Nations fight to defend them selves and it is the only justification needed for their participation in the struggle. our early successes in North Africa was because the people of those coun tries wanted food and machinery which they knew we could send them. Our allies can continue to fight so successfully only as long as we supply them with food they can't provide for themselves; and, as our own aimed forces increase, more food is needed for them also. So the job of the manufacturers of this country is going to increase as victory draws nearer. They must continue to pour out the weapons of war and at the same time increase the supplies of food that must go overseas. It's a colossal undertaking. LET US WINTERIZE YOUR CAR It is time now to change over to Winter 1 i Lubricants and ADD ANTI-FREEZE. Let us t check.ybur car now and prepare it for Winter i driving. r- tire Checking Anti-Freeze X Sinclair Products . 21 Ar.'O CILL'S SERVICE STATION , . 'Where Service h' A Pleasure"' EltL WHITE, Prop.. ! PHONE ajd! Pig Production Up 31 Per Cent In 1942 In response to demands brought about by the war, North Carolina farmers in 1942 stepped up their production of pigs 31 per cent over the previous year's crop, according to a survey released today by the division of Agricultural Statistics of the State Department of Agriculture. The 1942 pig crop on North Caro lina farms was estimated at 1,568,000 head, an increase of 136 per cent, above the ten-year average from 1931 to 1941. Farmers' income from hogs in 1943 will set a new all-time record. From June 1 to December 1 of the past year, 120,000 sows farrowed. It is expected that this figure will be increased to 162,000 during the six months period from December 1, 1942, to June 1, 1943. The average number of pigs saved per litter in the State during the past six months was 6.33. This is a slightly higher figure than the average during the preceeding eigh teen months. In the United States, the 1942 fall pig crop, most of which will be mar keted in the spring and summer of 1943, is 23 per cent larger than the previous record fall crop of 1941. The indicated number of sows to farrow in the spring season of 1943 in the Nation is 24 per cent larger than the figure for spring farrowing of 1942. SNOW HILL NEWS Mrs. Jesse Harrell, Mrs. D. M. Cartwright and Mrs. J. H. Harrell spent Friday with Mrs. George Eure, at White Hat Mr. and, Mrs. Mason Sawyer and family, of White Hat, visited Mr. and Mr. D. M. Cartwright Sunday. John Elmer Wood, of the Marine Base at New River, spent Saturday night with his wife at the home of his parents. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Harrell and Mr. and Mrs. Moody Harrell qpent Friday afternoon in . Hertford. Amos Lane, of Route One, Lyn haven, Va., visited friends here dur ing the week-end. Miss Eleanor Eure is convalescing at the hone of her parents here. : Mrs. W. M. Mathews spent Thurs day afternoon in Elisabeth City. USE 666 TABLETS. SALVE, NOSE DROPS TAYLOR THEATRE EDENTON. N. C. "WE HAVE THE SHOWS' Friday, Jan. 15 Gene Tierney, John Sutton and Preston Foster in "THUNJER BIRDS" filmed In Technicolor Saturday, Jan. 16 Williant Boyd and Andy Clyde "THE LOST CANYON" Sunday, Jan. 17 Ann Corio and Buster Crabbe in "JUNGLE SIREN" Monday and Tuesday, Jan. 18-19 George Murphy and Pat O'Brien in "THE NAVY COMES THROUGH" With Jackie Cooper and Max Baei Wednesday, Jan. 20 Double Feature 10c and 22c James Ellison in "ARMY SURGEON" East Side Kids in "NEATH BROOKLYN BRIDGE" Coming Jan. 21-22 Tyrone Power and Maureen O'Hara in "THE BLACK SWAN There's A Big Job Ahead Yes, sir! ow is the lime to start preparing your land and doing odd jobs around your farm getting ready for the big job oi food production during 194, v That job calls for TOOLS . you want Tools to cat wood pare your Spring Harden, your needs. and we have them. I f , i can lenee row. sn;p lure today , or pre and get Of course, Tools as plentiful as they have . . the boys fighting the Axis ind are getting it by our giv- but are not been in years gone by . . need lots ot cij ipinent inn up some 01 the things we can do without we will endeavor to fill your needs to the best of our ability. WE HAVE IN STOCK Crub Hoes - Bush Hooks - Axes - Saws Wedges - Mauls - Spades - Shovels Weed Cutters - Hatchets HERTFORD HARDWARE & SUPPLY CO Hertford. N. ( . r : , 1 uealers a :-:-rx :-:-::::::; -:::::::-::::: ;.:: -.'.v:-':-:-:v-:-:-.-:-:-x-:-x-:-:-: of Cars and Trucks GET A SKILLED CHECK-UP NOW I J Check and rotate tires V Check lubrication y' Check engine, carburetor, battery V Check brake V Check steering and wheel alignment V Check clutch, tranimhdon, rear axle Chevrolet dealers have the leader's "know-how" in servicing all makes. Chevrolet dealers have had the broad est experience servicing millions of new and used cars and trucks. 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