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THE HYDE COUNTY HERALD. SWAN QUARTER, N. C.
Thursday, Aug. 24, 1944
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PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY Ai 5VN Q'JARlER.
MORTH CAROLINA. BY
THOS. E. SPENCER
Entered as Second Clars Matter ut the I'uNtoffu-e at Swan Quarter. N. C.
Kuhsrrintinn Rates: One Year Si.; Six Months SI; Three Months (iOc.
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OUR SYMPATHIES TO THE LLTTOX FAMILY
THE HERALD joins the neighbors of Mr. and Mrs. C. Rouse
Lupton of Swan Quarter in offering sympathies as they mourn j
the death of their son, Charlie Rouse, Jr., in the European
war. It is hard to find words to ;rite on an occasion like
this. We simply say our sympathiefgo out to you.
The price of war is heavy. The burden of it falls especially
hard on the shoulders of those who must give loved ones.
There is but one consolation to those who lose so heavily.
The soldiers have died fighting that the men of tomorrow
will not have to go through the hell of war or give their sons
in the blood of battle. Whether or not this will come to pass,
HO one knows, but should it, all mankind of the future will
be indebted to them. Regardless of what goes on here in the
world, they rest in peace beneath th soil marked by rows of
white crosses. They cannot be disturbed by worldly upheav
als. THE HERALD has reported the deaths of quite a number
of Hyde County boys during this war. The job is a touching
cne. Many of these young men were our friends and neigh
bors. Their lives have been snuffed out in cruel, bloody fight
ing. Like the young oats that were eaten by the wild cattle,
they were cut down before they matured and produced and
enjoyed life in full. They will not come back to mingle with
us in the peace for which they fought. But their spirit will
be present.
The killings that bring heart-breaking news such as the
Lupton family received Tuesday should cause man to live
better. It is tragic that those innocent in causing wars are the
ones that suffer so much. But until mankind learns to drop
selfishness, greed and power and to choose wise and able lead
ers for all nations the world can expect to be plagued with
wars more ghastly than the one we are witnessing. Men must
abide by .the law: "Love thy neighbor as thyself."
AMONG US PEACELOVERS
We respect Secretary of State Cordell Hull for his integrity
and his long public service; but really, this admirable gen
tleman can utter more pious platitudes in less time than any
body else we know of.
At the Dumbarton Oaks Conference's opening session day
i before yesterday, Mr. Hull made a speech of about 1,800
words, and in this speech he used the phrase "peaceloving na
tions" or equivalents of same a total of nine times. He was re
ferring to Britain, China, Russia and the United States pri
marily, this Dumbarton Oaks affair being an exploratory' get
together on the subject of maintaining world peace after this
war.
Maybe you have to deal in corn when you are a leading dip
lomat But let's take a calm, detached look at the three great
peaceloving nations Britain, Russia and ourselves which are
running the Dumbarton show.
Britain did not acquire an empire covering 25 per cent of
the earth's land area and embracing 25 per cent of its popu
lation by keeping peace and holding plebiscites. The British
.did it by war. Russia didn't become by peaceful methods a
nation stretching from the Pacific to the Baltic over one-sixth
of the earth's land area and including 10 per cent of its pop
ulation. Nor have we Americans been chronic peace-lovers. Our na
tion was born in a bloody war; we fought Aapoleon unoni
cially by sea; we fought the British again in 1312-15, and the
Mexicans in 1846-415. We fought one another 1361-65, and very
bloodily; fought Spam in 1393; and have been in two world
wars in the last quarter century.
Why spew pious platitudes about "peaceloving nations" at
Dumbarton Oaks or anywhere else? Why not face the facts of
.life? Washington. D. C, Times-Herald.
WHY THEY .STRICK
By Frank C. Waldrop
There has ju?t come to hand ajLumbert Manufacturing Company
review of petty strikes in 1944 walked out because they were
from January to date, as repnr'ed
in '.he official complaints. A fair
amp!ing of these tells its own
tory:
DETROIT. Feb. 13 Thirty
employes of the Chrysler tank ar
senal went on a si'down strike
because they had o wa;k 2o feet
to pick up coveralls.
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.jeling sand and start heaving iron
Mar. 6.--A walkout of 1,000 em-scrap into a furnace,
ployes in the Diesel equipment PITTSBURGH, May 24 Be
division of General Motors oc- cause the drinking water in the
cured because a woman worker I
was sent home when she refus-;
sent home when she refus-;
ed to take off glavos worn in too warm, 400 men and women
violation of safety regulations, j walked out. The company said
AI.TOONA, Pa.. March 29 jthe water cooling system had
Coai production slumped because! been undergoing repairs for a
1. i .- ..effused to be paid by) week.
cht; i. . y longer at one m;ne. 411
o'n. r.s walked out in pr.est
auai.ist t-a.isfer of night mine
L.o.or mtn to the day shift.
PITTSBURGH. April 4 Grease
dripped on an American flag
hanfc. g u :oer a crane runway,
to tilt foreman ordered it taken
down, vhereupon 8i9 steel.vork
ers wi;ked out the seamless
tubing n.ills of the Jones &
Laughlin S.eel Corp.
BOSTON, Mass., April 8 The
Bethlehem Steel Company chang
ed the time of day for cashing
checks, so 3,000 workers quit
work for two hour.
DETROIT. April 21 - The tank
assembly line at Chrysier shut
down and 1.000 employe? were
Idle because of a dispute with
the management concerning a
rH" of thp lunch hour for 350
TIMES PRINT NiG CO., inc. ;
Editor i
Thursday. Ausr. 24. 1944 No. 51 i
I employes from 7:Ij p.m. to 3.
FLINT, Mich., May 15 About
. employes of the Clayton and
refused a 5-minute washup pe
riod o:i company time just be
fore the end of the day's work.
ATLANTA, Ga., May 21Be
tween 200 and 300 employes of
the National Traffic Guaid Co..
makers ot snips parts. walKea
out in support of a wor
er who J
objected to an order to q jit shov
w estmghouse tlectnc and wan
ufactunne Company plant was
uiactunng company
PASSAIC, N'. J., June 3 (D
Day was June 6). Deliveries of
cloth for the Army and Navy
stopped when 600 employes of!
the Botany Worsted Mills went
on a sit-down strike (ending
work for the plant's total of 5,
'ooo employes (because the War
! Labor Board irr Washington had
failed to act on a petition by the
company for approval of incen
tive bonuses.
117 tool grinders stopped work
at the Dodge plant in Chicago
where they were making parts
for B-29 Superfortresses, because
an apprentice demanded journey
man wages when he was fired.
The Graham-Paige Motor Com
pany at Detroit disciplined six
material handlers for leaving
their jobs before the end of their
regular shifts without permission,
all-american attack
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SALVO NEWS NOTES
Jim Hooper and Graves Mid
gett, Jr., spent their leave with
their people. They are employed
on the dredge Chinnook at Nor
folk. Mrs. W. E. Whidbee spent sev
eral days last week at Avon,
Buxton and Hatteras.
Mrs. Andy Brown of Norfolk
has been visiting her mother An
nie Douglas. Mrs. Brown left
Thursday fo rher home in Nor
folk. Mrs. Charlotte Tolson spent
several days last week with Mr.
and Mrs. L. S. Gray
Velma Whidbee spent Sunday
Whidbee.
Mr, Calvin Midgett and chll -
;wi ifL III fcJ w:r
dren, Feldon and Shirley Rae, - ,,7a LS d copies . . . always something in
spent several days last week with f has return. ! teresting down at the county a-
Mrs R D Gray and son. Hen- hU worft in Raleigh ( after f ?
r,Paeren;s,V, nTu Tl o.iddl town always busy
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months with Mrs. Gray s son, Hu
bert.
Linville Farrow
arrived home
Tuesday to spend his leave with
his wife and parents, Mr. and Mrs.
P. G. Farrow. He is stationed at
New York.
Mrs. L. Y Gray, Mrs. W. E.
Whidbee and children, Irene and
Jean, spent Thursday at Waves
with their daughter and sister,
Mrs. Calvin Midgett.
Mrs. J. R. Douglas, Annie
Douglas and daughter, Elinor, are
visiting Mrs. Do;ia:as sister, in
Manteo, Mrs. L. R. O'Neal.
Van Gray, Jr.. of Wa richest' has
been visiting Henry Midgett. He
returned home Tuesday.
Mrs. L. C. Gray, Velma Whid
bee, Leslie Hooper. Graves Mid
gett, Jr., and Kendall Whidbee
motored to Buxton Monday where 1
Mrs. L. C. i.
ceived meJ
Mrs. L. V
Earl Whidi
Avon visit! i.
tives, they ret
iy and Velma re
"eatment. j
mid grandson.!
!'. . : Monday at
tr.eni- and rela
urriei home Tues-
day.
Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Whidbee and
children, Ful'on and Ella Marie,
of Manteo, spent several days re
cently with their parents, Mr.
and Mrs. V. H. Barnes.
L. Douglas and daughter, Mrs.
Milton Robinson, and children,
Douglas and Sandy, spent Satur-
and nearly 4,000 workmen on
amphibious tanks threw down
tneir tools.
The same things continued on
throush Julv in Ashland Kv.
the American Rolling Mills sus
pended operations in a walkout
of galvanizing department work
ers Lecause one man's hours
were changed.
In Cleveland, two inspectors
for the Ohio Crankshaft Co., pro
ducers t f parts for military ve
hicles, r. fused to accept transfers
to new jobs and were fired, so
1,500 otl er workers threw down
their too s.
I Newj.'k, N. J., 500 war pro
duction employes of the McKier-nan-Terry
Corp., went out on
strike because the War Labor
Board in Washington reclassified
their jobs.
August opened with not only
light strikes but heavy ones, such
as the walkout of "over-the-road"
truck drivers at Omaha, closing
35 truck terminals, to force their
employers to accept a WLH
wage increase order.
And in Detroit, August's big
gest development so far was the
12-day upheaval at General Mo-1
tors, involving five factories and j
7,000 workers making gears and J
axles, because six employe were
laid off who said they couldn't
maintain the production schedule,
the nation's hours of peril, what
will they do when the war is ov-
er?
4 Cy COLLIER
day in Manteo.
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Hooper and
son Bertis spent last week at East
Lake in a revival at the Pente
costal
church. Mr. Hooper con-
ducted the revival. He reports
a great meeting and much good
was occomplished. They return
ed home Monday.
WANCHESZ PERSONALS
Carolyn Daniels left Wednes-
day for Greenville, N. C, to vis-
it friends.
Mrs. Albert Young of Broad
Creek Village is visiting her
'grandparents. Mr. and Mrs. W.
I
Woodrow Stetson returned to
i"
. -
iels
Mrs. Vanefe Gudworth- and
daughter of NorfoIk. visited rela-
tives here this week.
Mrs. Bern Tillett continues ill.
Mrs. Dell Saunders of Norfolk
visited relatives here this week.
Mrs. Aphelia Daniels has re-1
turned home after spending a
few days in Norfolk with rela
tives. !
Mr. and Mrs. Ivey Daniels of
Broad Creek Village spent the
week end here with relatives.
James Buxton Daniels, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Kalb Daniels, re
ceived medical treatment at the
Norfolk General Hospital, Nor
folk, this week.
Mrs. Woodrow Stetson and Mrs.
Dick Tillett spent Wednesday in
Norfolk.
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nosui juieu visnuu ai maims
Harbor Wednesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Scarbor
ough spent the week end in Nor
folk with relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Daniels and
daughter, Laura, of Elizabeth
City spent the week end here.
Little Miss Shirley Mae Dan
iels spent the week in Elizabeth
City as guest of Laura Daniels.
Miss Lucy Tillett is visiting her
sister, Miss Ola Tillett, in Gra
ham. Misses Mary Frances Forbes
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The
Editors
Column
Every now and then I run a
cross a clipping that I think my
readers will enjoy. This week I
have one that is very true to life.
It is by Vivian Batman and ap
peared in her column, "Thinking
Things Over" in the Niles (Calif.)
Township Register. It follows:
LAMENT TO A COUNTRY
REPORTER
Do I know any NEWS? Well, now
let me see . . .
Oh, yes our VACATION! but
good gracious me,
Don't dare put THAT in the paper
my dear;
There's some things the Ration
Board just shouldn't HEAR.
Have I ha dany dinners? Given a
lunch?
Why, yes but oh my, there's that
odd Mrs. Scrunch!
If she should get word that she
was left out
She'd go in a really TERRIBLE
pout.
Oh, say, by the way now don't
breathe a word
But in March I'm expecting the
long-legged bird!
Why of COURSE the girls will
give me a shower; t
But heavens, don't PRINT it! My
husband would GLOWER.
And
isn't it awful about Mazie
Snorst?
i T 1 . a TTTi nno tin !
IUU "arau nctxtiu: wny, sne s
geuing aivorcea:
In the PAPER? Oh no, I wouldn't
do THAT
I promised I'd keep it under my!
hat.
:Well, 'bye now, dear, and a word
of advice.
I hope you won't think I'm not
i very "ice
;But your paper Now don't say
I'm choosey,
But h"J?t'y' , dear' U just isnt
I JEWS.
As I find things along the way:
w"u 8
ai some kiiiu oi jod.
Buy War Bonds and Stamps.
COTTON QUIZ
33!
' KHr-CCTWff SWES ABOUT
L FOUNPS OP BUB8EK IN THE
MANUFACTURE OF A RAINCOAT
FOK THE AEMEP FORCES
and Helen Midgett spent the week
end in ... orfolk with friends.
I aw
Tlie Farmer and
War Bonds
by Mr. A. S. Coss
Master of the Xational Grange
FREQUENTLY hear farm
V V ers raise the question as to
whether or not they should buy
War Bonds as long as they are in
debt. The answer to this question
should depend in large measure
upon the nature of the debt and
whether or not it is current. If part
of it is past due, and the borrower
expects to experience difficulty in
meeting past due payments, he
probably should bring his debt into
current position before investing
in Bonds. If, however, his pay
ments are current, there seems to
be no reason why farmers should
not buy as many Bonds as they
are able. Most individual invest
ors in government Bonds are car
rying debt in one form or an
other, at rates higher than the
Bonds will yield. This is as it
should be if the purchaser is in an
earning position which permits the
accumulation of some surplus, for
we all owe it to our government
to do our utmost in the financing
of the war, even though the trans
action may result in our paying
some extra interest on outstand
ing debts.
When a farmer owes money, he
is always concerned as to whether
his crops will sell at prices which
will enable him to repay his debt.
When prices are high it is good
business and conservative finance
to reduce the debt as rapidly as
possible because when prices are
low, it takes more crops and more
efforts to make the payments.
We should not forget, how
ever, that a government Bond
will pay off an equal amount
of dollars of debt, no matter
whether prices are high or
whether prices are low. It is,
therefore, a sound and con
servative practice to buy gov
ernment Bonds and lay them
TIPS ON PLANTING
WINTER LEGUMES
Winter legumes should be
planted after such crops as to
bacco, truck, soybeans, or enw.
pea and Jespedeza hays, says Enos
Blair .Extension agronomist at
N. C. State Colleee. He suepsts
that the soil be disced to a depth
of 4 inches, rather than plowed,
and that the crops be drilled rath
er than broadcast.
Drilling distributes the seed
more evenly, saves seed, and of
ten gives a good stand in dry
weather where other methods of
seeding fail. Blair recommends
that crimson clover be drilled a
bout inch deep as with les
pedeza. Vetch and Austrian win
ter peas can be covered about IV2
to 2 inches deep as with small
grain.
"It is impossible to prepare a
seed bed and plant winter legum
es or time after such late ma
turing crops as corn, cotton, and
peanuts," says Blair. "We can,
however, resort to planting be
tween the rows of the standing
crop.
"In the mountains a very suc
cessful practice is to broadcast
the seed between corn rows at
Iaying-by titme. Vetch and Aus
trian winter peas are broadcast
before the cultivator and crimson
clover behind it, so that it will
OUR DEMOCRACY-
OUR'WESTERN RIVERS"
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-so called because the Mississippi was the western
BOUNDARV OF THE U.S. BEFORE THE LOUISIANA PURCHASE -AND
THE FAR-WESTERN LIMIT OF AMERICAN COLONIZATION.
VffpJ'f, The EARLIEST commerce was
" ,,; IN 6REAT BARGES... AN ACRE
IN 1811 STATELY STEAMBOATS
. STERN-WHEELERS AND
SlOE-WHEELERS- BEGAN
TO PLY THE RIVERS. J
HELPED BUILD THE
MIDDLE WEST. THE BULK OF
TRAFFIC WAS STILL DOWNSTREAM,
ft
r -. -.. '" 1 A-w.v?t..jLr J
KlOW, STEAMER TOWING BARGES NOT ONLY RUN
NORMAL LOADS DOWNSTREAM INTO THE MIDWEST
AND SOUTH, BUT WARTIME CARGOES OF OIL,
GASOLINE, COAL AND IRON ORE UPSTREAM
AND EAST TO PITTSBURGH AND BEYOND
'ONCE MORE-AS IN MARK TWAINS DA V
CARRYING TREMENDOUS TONNAGE
aside to make payments on
existing debts when they fall
due. In fart, quite aside from
the patriotic appeal, it Is good
business to buy Bonds rather
than make pre-payments on
debt, because the time may
come when the ready cash is
needed and the money tied up
in pre-payments cannot be re
turned. If this money is in
rested In Bonds, it can be con
verted into cash to meet any
needs which may arise.
If everyone followed the policy
of buying no War Bonds until their
debts were paid, few Bonds would
be sold to the public. We have an
obligation to help finance this war
which is vastly more important
than the income we may receive
on the investment of money in
War Bonds.
Farmers are finding it impossi
ble to maintain their machinery
and buildings in a satisfactory
state of repair. They are finding
that they cannot replace worn-out
equipment except at excessively
high cost.
It would seem to be sound
and conservative business
practice to lay aside money
to make the repairs and re
place worn-out equipment
when material and machines
are again available. No safer
place can be found to lay aside
money for such purposes than
in government Bonds.
Every time we buy a Bond we
are not only assfsting in financing
the war, but we are also doing our
bit to prevent that most dreaded
economic disaster called inflation.
If each one of us would invest as
much as we could in government
Bonds, the danger of inflation
would be greatly reduced.
V. S. Treasury Department
not be covered too deep. Laying
by time in the Piedmont and
Coastal Plain is too early for
these seed to be sown but this
method can be followed about
September 1. y
"Crimson clover should be cov
ered with a verv lifht harrnw In
1 stead 0 fa cultivator. In ridged
crops the seeds may be broadcast
jand followed with a middle burs
ter or 'cotton plow.' This has
1 the effect of planting two rows
1 of seed on each cotton or corn
ridge.
1 "A still better way is to use a
one-horse open furrow drill, that
plants three rows in each mid
dle. This implement, however,
covers the seed too deep to be
used for crimson clover, A corn
planter can be used in planting
a row of vetch or peas in each
middle of peanuts."
j
'' It is often necessary to wet the
'floor of the tobacco barn to has
'ten the softening of the cured
leaf.
WAR BONDS
by Mai
ALL RIVEat ULTIMATSLV
DRAINING INTO TM GUIVOF MEXICO
-FrpftAI. ttAWSAriON ULCS.
or so of white boaros, crew
of a dozen men. ..three o
four wigwams for storm
quarters. ..floating from
the upper rivers down to
new orleans.. .tediously
poled back bv hand."
fkom "iifc on th mississippi "
ffy MARK TWAAJ.
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