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THE HYDE COUNTY HERALD, SWAN QUARTER, N. C. HYDE COUNTY HERALD PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY AT SWAN QUARTER. NORTH CAROLINA, BY TIMES PRINTING CO., fnc. THOS. E. SPENCER Editor Gstered as Second Class Matter at the Postoffice at Swan Quarter. N. C. Subscription Rates: One Year 32.; Six Months 31; Three Months 60c. Vol. 5 Swan Quarter, N. C., April 20, 1944 No. 33 GANGWAY! CO OUT AND VOTE. It is only little more than five w^eks until the primary, May 27. There has been little interest shown by the gen eral public in this important event. It is only natural that the war should hold part of the interest that might be aroused in normal times,., but never-the-less, the public should not, neglect to take advantage of its privilege and go out and vote. Voting is not only a privilege, it is a duty. Too many people in this day and time leave the run ning of the government to a few. Every man and woman of voting age in this country is in a sense a stock-holder. They should act to see that it is managed efficiently and for the benefit of the entire citizenship. A partnership or cor poration would not exist long in the business world if the stockholders, the owners, did not take an interest. Sometimes people are heard to remark: “What differ ence does it make.’’ It matters a great deal. Govrnment from the smallest municipality to the Federal government need experienced and qualified men as officers. One short coming of local self-government in America has been the lack of men with training suiting Them for posts with gov ernment, and as a result much has been left to the lawyers and professional politicians often to the sorrow of the citi zens. How to vote is a matter for the individual, and in the case of local office seekers, we do not attempt to tell any one how to vote. But there are some factors that should be considered when one goes to the polls. One is that the voter should study the record of the person seeking office from every source available and cast his vote for the one that to him seems best qualified to serve in the office for which he is a candidate. The character; the educational background; the ideas; and their community life are factors to be considered. Citizens should mark May 27th on their calendars and go out at that time and cast their vote for the persons whom they think can best serve them in the halls of gov- esnment. It is not only your privilege, one which you are fortunate to have, but it is a duty which you owe, not only to your country, but yourself. MANAftEtlSHT LAaoa m ■■m V /■ Thursday, April 20' Long Range Earnings Best Sign of Property’s Value What goes up must come down! Many people are forgetting the truth of that saying now adays in their over-optimistic calculations on the value of f^m land, according to the U. S. department of agriculture. Those ^miscalculations often lead individuals under a boom influence to pay too much for rural property an econoinic error that concerns everybody, not just the person who made the unfortU“$>— — ^ nate and costly purchase. When the OTHER EDITORS DON’T BE DISCOURAGED. The time of the year is approaching when many boys and girls will finish high school and start out on the road to life. War times are difficult for young people as for all people, but they should not be discouraged. Many who are finishing high school this year have al ready felt the effects of the war. Now they will feel it even more. Some, the boys in particular, will be called to distant battlefields, or to do other great tasks. More than ever be fore, young people have to make great decisions. But despite he dark outlook, and the continued cry of the pessimist that mankind is drifting into a rut, it should be remembered that there have been other periods in his tory that have tried mens souls. Those who have had what it took—courage, determination, a will to learn and work, and a desire to do right—have gone through life and suc ceeded. To the young men and women who go into life from this section this year, we would say: Have faith and cour age; go straight; be determined to succeed, and study and work to attain that goal. The world is holding out stretched hands for young people who want to go out and make life worthwhile by working in science, music and entertainment, journalism, preaching, engineering, government, business administra tion, homemaking and scores of other fields. Resolve that you will find the place you prefer. The path may be long and hard and the going tough, but it can be n#gotiated. Don’t be discouraged. Remember, levery cloud has a silver lining. It may get darker before it gets brighter, but it will get bright. INVASION PREPARATION As the hour approaches when Allied invasion troops will be al erted, the physical stage is being carefully prepared. But what of mental mobilization? Are individ uals on the home front sufficiently alert to the need of spiritual and mental preparation? Material sup port of the war effort and pro duction of munitions, important as they are, will not suffice. The best military equipment in the world could not bring victory without courage, wdsdom, good judgment, faith in the right, and like mental qualities. We need then to pray for a full er recognition of these qualities as MUSTERING THE LAND ARMY the inheritance of God’s man, and (Christian Science Monitor) As successful military strate gists plan their moves months in advance, so the farmer is quietly making his preparation for the summer campaign. He has not been lulled into a mistaken sense of se curity by the fact that, in the face of a serious labor shortage, last year’s crop is safely in barns and bins; for he knows that to meet the emergency women worked in the fields and that much of his grain I W'as garnered by the “white-collar”! workers who came out from towns and cities. So now, when he drives to town. land boom bubble is pricked, acres that were purchased at exorbitant prices must be sold at auction, taxes can’t be paid, bonds go in de fault, and banks ,close their doors. Yet indications now point, say USDA officials, to a land boom in the making of proportions never be fore known in America. The history of land price inflation in the United States has shown that it takes but a relatively small per centage of transfers, compared with the total number of farms in a community, to open the road to eventual disaster. Demand for farm land and the number of sales made in a given region determine price levels, and both are influenced by the general level of prosperity. War Inflationary, Because war has a way of stimu lating inflationary tendencies in a nation’s economy, it is pointed out that periods of conflict are usually accompanied or followed by a sharp rise in demand for farm land and a parallel upward mevement of prices. The last land boom—the one that reached its height immediately after World War I (1919-20)—ended with land values being on the down grade for 13 years. Beginning in 1920, reports show that farmers lost by forced sale a total of more than two million farms. During the last 22 years, the equivalent of one- fourth to one-third of aU land in farms has gone through forced sale. Chief cause of most of these sales was found to be the initial mistake of paying too much for land. During the lush period from 1919- 21 rural speculators received only 31 per cent of the gains that were realized from farm real estate trans actions. The remaining 69 per cent went to town and city people. In 'addition, three-fourths of the sales were effected through agents whose commissions are estimated at some three million dollars. As a result of World War II, a land boom exceeding anything yet recorded appears to be a certainty, unless steps are taken to stop its onrush. Factors contributing to the current increase in transfer of farms are varied, government stud ies show, but they all point to a growing "boom psychology.” These factors Include: (1) Country banks report that de mand deposits are about three times the level of five years ago, and double the period immediately before Pearl Harbor, (2) Potential city investors In farm land have had their purchas ing power materially increased. (3) AU prices are feeling the pres sure of surplus funds in the hands of individuals. (4) Tendency is to forget that nor mally it takes a long time to pay for a farm. People are inclined to overlook the possibility of being forced to make large payments on land in a future period when farm commodities are no longer bringing such good prices, and demand is down. (5) City or town dweUers often feel that owning a piece of farm land, regardless of the price they pay, offers them security. They ig nore the fact that the purchase of land at inflationary prices may have as much influence as anything else in undermining their own future se curity and the stabiUty of the com munity in which they live. Si)eculative Profits, Experts believe that reductions in land price fluctuations could be achieved if the possibility of lative profits was largely re®'’® They point out that little disturbance would result if able operating income proba'’’! plus the value of the farm 1 > home were the chief moti''p force in farm land purchase- As an Indication of price tions, farmers received an aV^T of 14.07 per pound for hogs ia ..iaup- ary of 1943, in comparison *1 10.55 for the same month and 7.26 in 1941. Prices dipP®‘ 5.18 in 1940. , Ca The price of wheat was e'Jjj’lesg spotty, a bushel bringing M: January of 1943, $1.06 for th® „ w period in 1942, and .73 in 1940, it was up to .84. „■ , * Whereas milch cows b®*- Mi $103.20 in January of 1943. yten drew only $81.70 during the SMrg month of 1942, and $64.60 in 1* fco Since much of the difficulbU,. ‘ boom times come from a Sion of mortgages—second, fourth, and even lower order-'T are taken by various owners ^1 farm in the period before the , comes, efforts have been ina' idC.Mi keep appraisals on a conserve’S s basis. Farm land appraisers w now urged to use a "normal’',”jpox. ation based on earning capae’*;,! the land, calculated on avefl'*’ yields for the particular gether with estimated averag® mal prices for farm product* I .Mj pected to prevail for a giveojigo riod of years. Costs of labor. chinery and other production ‘’jiiji.v are taken into consideration ^reasonable return is figured c® investment. The Farm Credit administr^.'iPVe of the U. S. department of ag® ture uses the normal valuation-.ly praisal exclusively in making to farmers. A number of insur®'^ ’'i companies that invest funds in ^ mortgages also follow a sh®" fUli plan. Preliminary figures for 1943 sU total farm-mortgage debt of Wj 263,000, of which $2,104,632,00®^'^ held by federal land banks and land bank commissioner; $891 ul; 000 by life insurance c’ompa®*f; $476,676,000 by conamercial baCji $163,378,000 by the Farm Sed®!; administration, and $2.714.136,0(* all others. Even with farm Income a, TOth wartime stimulation in 1^ 3,270 farms with mortgage val^^^iw $10,988,599 were foreclosed general delinquencies on morW payments amounted to $131,239. claim them for ourselves, our ser vicemen and their leaders. We, and they, need not so much the “fighting mad” spirit that has the farmer is prudently marshall ing his forces, acutely aware that, with a large portion of the United Nations armies looking to the Uni ted States for food, the issue mav been urged, as the inspiration that comes from love—love of God, of country, and of neighbor. Hating can well be left to the enemy. The world has seen what the hate-filled mind, though seeming at first to display cleverness and sagacity, has brought upon itself. Remembering that the Allied ar mies are bent on liberation, not conquest, and prayerfully seeking the guidance and protection of that Love which yields not to appease ment but opposes evil to the ut most, both invasion troops and the “rear guard” at home can ap proach D Day with a quietness and confidence that will be their strength in the days to follow. And who knows how far such a spirit might go in bringing about the enemy’s early capitulation to the forces of good ? be decided not only upon the bat tlefields of Europe, but on grainfields of America. the SWEET POTATOES CAN BECOME LEADING CROP LARGE LOSSES FROM PULLORUM DISEASE The home town newspapers are playing a vital part in The pullorum disease, the war. They deserve the su' of the citizens in the ujpport territory that they serve as well as the nation as a whole. America awaits the day of invasion with confidence that her soldiers and their Allies will be victorious. Spring brings bauty to the Southern Albemarle, but fewer people will see it this year because of the gas shortage and other wartime problems. Naturally a woman wants to save her face. That’s why she paints it.—Ayden Dispatch. K- \^HA1 ARE WE FIGHTING FOR? Victory is never cheaply bought. It is only a means to an end. What is that end? What dflB we lighting ior? We are fitting ior liberty, the most expensive luxury known to manf ’ -» We fight for simple things—for the little things that are all important. We fight Iq; schoob built on a founda tion of books, not bayonets. We fight for town meetings, for the high school debating team, for open doors to cathedral, church and synagogue. We fight for the right to organize for any decent purpose; ior labor; for employers; for the Grange and the Legion and the Ladies' Literary Qub. and ior lodge meet ings in full regalia on Tuesday nights. We fight for our candidate for sheriff and for the other fellow's candidate; and for the right to be sorry we elected him and to soy so. We fight ior the country editor and for the metropolitan daily, and for the editor's right to say the wrong thing if he thinks it's right. We fight ior free radio, ior the right to to listen to what we won^ond to turn off what we don't want. We fight for the right to work at jobs of our own choosing; to read the books we want to read; to listen to the music that pleases us, without regard to the race or nationality of the composer. For these things we fight. {From an address by Lt. Gen. Brehon Somervell, commanding Army Service Forces, to his troops, March 9, 1944.) Bureau of Public Belatioua U. S. War Department commonly called white diarrhea, causes lar ger losses than any other poultry disease and is especially bad dur ing the first four weeks in the life of the chick, reports H. C. Gauger, poultry pathologist at State Col lege. He points out that chicks infect ed with the disease generally have drooping wings and ruffled feath ers. They huddle together, chirp a good deal, and act as if they were cold. Internally, the chicks will show one or more of the following abnormalities, — small gray spots on the lungs, heart and gizzard; unabsorbed yolk and swollen kid neys. Spread of the disease may take place in the incubator. Again, it may spread during the brooding period from infected droppings. Range stock and adult birds may also become infected by coming in to contact with droppings from infected birds, and hence the need for clean range. Gauger explains. He suggests that poultry grow ers kill and either burn or bury all sick and undersized chicks. Al low at least one square foot of floor space for every two chicks started. Thoroughly clean and disinfect the brooder house and its equipment as frequently as possi ble. If chicks have been on the ground around the brooder house, it is well to confine them until the disease is under control. “This frequent cleaning and dis infecting program will tend to check the further spread of the disease in the brooder house, but it will not prevent the loss of chicks which became infected in the incubator,” Gauger says. In making purchases, ask for jullorum-free chicks. USE POISONED BRAN MASH FOR CUTWORMS Cutworms, attacking garden vegetables and other crops, can be destroyed through the use of a poi soned bran mash, says J. Myron Maxwell, in charge of Extension entomology at N. C. State College. Sweet potatoes can become one of the best staple crops in Eastern Carolina, if farmers will get better I seed, improve yields, and fully utilize their tobacco barns for cur ing and storing the crop, says J. Y. Lassiter, Extension horticulturist at State College. “The average yield of sweet po tatoes at the present time, 37 bush els per acre, is entirely too low,” Lassiter points out. “The potatoes are not sufficiently uniform in size and shape, and in skin and flesh color. Entirely too many are infected with diseases. These are serious drawbacks and they must be overcome before the crop will be profitable for some growers. Many Eastern Carolina farmers have harvested two or three times the average state yield and a few report larger yields, according to Lassiter. He explains that good seed, proper fertilization, improved cultural practices, and other fac tors have been responsible for the increased yields. Reduction of diseases, careful grading, curing, and storage, and effective marketing facilities must he taken into consideration if the sweet potato grower is to make a success with his crop. Those growers who are interest ed in carrying out better practices in sweet potato growing, with much larger returns per acre, should write the Agricultual Edit or, State College, Raleigh, for a free copy of Extension Circular No. 250, “Approved Practices for Growing Sweet Potatoes,” and to D. S. Weaver, head of the Agricul tural Engineering Department, State College, for a blueprint, “Sweet Potato Storage in Tobacco Barns.” 100 pounds of wheat bran, 5 pounds of Paris green, and 10 gallons of water. The mash can be mixed on a concrete floor and turned with a shovel. AMBITION No man has earned the right to intellectual ambition until, he has learned to lay his course by a star which he has never seento dig by the divining rod for springs which he may never reach. In saying this. in all sadness of conviction, that to moving to the measure oi think great thoughts you must be thoughtthe subtle rapture heroes as well as idealists. Only postponed power, which the when you have worked alone— knows not because it has no when you have felt around you a ^ i i .. '+c black gulf of solitude more isolat- but which to ts P ing than that which surrounds the Pustu’ vision is more real ■ a®®' dying man, and in hope and in de- that which commands an spair have trusted to your own un- And if this joy should not be f®' shaken will—then only will you —still it is only thus that yo® ^ have achieved. Thus only can you know that you have done gain the secret isolated joy of the lay in you to do—can say tha^L. . . - „ , I thinker, who knows that. Long af- have lived, and be ready fo® I point to that which will make I ter he is dead and forgotten, men end. your study heroic. For I say to you who never heard of him will be -Oliver Wendell Hoi®®!! brown or tan inoth which deposit ed eggs in the weeds and grass last fall. As soon as the soil warms up in the spring, the worms be come active and feed on whatever vegetation is availble. They are now attacking cabbage, broccoli, lettuce, and tomato plants in the early gardens. They also attack radishes, peas, beans, and other crops. Maxwell suggests that the victory gardener prepare the following mash: 5 pounds of wheat bran, 1-4 pound of Paris green, and 3 to 4 points of water. The bran and Paris green should be mixed together dry. Moisten with water and stir thoroughly un til all flakes are moistened. “Do not use any more water than is necessary in moistening the flakes of bran. The mixture should not be sloppy,” Maxwell says. He recommends that the half be spread over the garden in late af ternoon so that it falls in flakes. Experience shows that this is bet ter than putting the bait in piles. Only one application is necessary. For the commercial gardener. Your County Paper It is designed to keep you posted on most things that directly concern you. It tells you where your neighbors went last week end, who died during the week, who had a baby, who’s ill, what’s news in rationing, and generally keeps you posted on the doings of this county. Subscribe to your county paper, read it and support it! It is the best and most economical medium through which business people and others can reach most of the homes in this section every week, with 3,000 interested readers. 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