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Page Two Hyde County Herald our democracy PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY AT SWAN QUARTER. NORTH CAROLINA, BY TIMES PRINTING CO., inc. THOS. E. SPENCER Editor Entered as Second Class Matter at the Postofflce at Swan Quarter. N. C. Subscription Rates: One Year $2.; Six Months $1; Three Months 60c. THE HYDE COUNTY HERALD. SWAN QUARTER. N. C. by Mat SAYS OPPORTUNITY ! f AWAITS SOUTH AT GOOD HUSBANDRY MULTIPLIES THE YIELD END OF THE WARi Tlie Farmer and War Bond Purchase® n I/ll I 7 Vol, VI Swan Quarter, N, C., Thursday Sept. 7, 1944 No. 1 BEGINNING SIXTH YEAR OF PUBLICATION THE HERALD 'begins its sixth year of publication with to day’s issue. At this milestone, we pause to thank our subscrib- | ers and advertisers for their business. There have been times, such as we are now experiencing, when we could not give you the service we would like to give because of lack of help in every field, especially the mechanical end of the business. It is our hope to improve the paper whenever con ditions permit, and to even enlarge it when business justifies this step. THE HERALD has not been a profitable venture for the publishers. Publication has been carried on because those backing it believe that Hyde County has possibilities of great development and that a newspaper can speed and play a part in this development. The disappointments in the struggle to survive have been many a great. We have had to overcome obstacles, and some are yet to be overcome. It is doubtful that this newspaper would have ever lived this long had those who worked at it foreseen the rough road ahead. Newspapers, like politicians, often find disillusion ment in life in Hyde County. There is always conflict. But thankful is THE HERALD to its 3,000 faithful readers and to those who have used its advertising columns. The as sociation with you has been a wonderful experience and we look forward to our continued friendships. It is our sincere ■hope that we may continue to serve you. ^0 WHEN WILL THEY RETURN? (Santford Martin in the Journal and Sentinel, Winston-Salem) Progress of the war in Europe has led to sanguine expecta' tions. Many Americans are now saying “The boys will be home by Christmas.” , More realistic citizens as well as Government officials do not share this very optimistic viewpoint. The Nazis aren’t licked yet, and Hitler may have several more tricks up his bloody sleeve. But even if we should grant that Germany will be defeated within the next few weeks or months, it may be many months longer before our boys in Europe come home. One writer quotes a military authority to the effect that it may be 18 months before the bulk of the A. E. F. is able to return to this country. It is explained that from 300,000 to 500,000 American sol diers will have to share in policing and garrisoning Germany and other countries ioi an appreciable length of time after the war. Many thousands more will be transferred from the European to the Asiatic war theatres to speed up action against the Japanese. Aliother problem has to do with transports. Quite a few of the vessels which were used in hauling troops to Britain, North Africa and other European and Middle East regions have been lost. Some cargo vessels which might be used in transporting troops back home after alterations for this pur pose may be pressed into service to haul relief goods to stricken European peoples. The popular demand will be for an early return of G. I. Joe once the war in Europe is won. But many fathers, moth ers, wives and sweethearts may have to be patient for several long months after the war is over before Joe actually touch es foot again on the soil of “God’s country.” o F-ll When the early Indians planted corn they put in LIMA beans to climb ON IT- SREW THEIR WINTER. VEGETABLE SUPPLY FOR SUCCOTASH P/ZOM ON£ PLANT/Na. ■7 p ////// Pfjl IP V//- '//a President of Southern Dairies I Praises Part in War Effort; j Predicts Great Opportunities by Charles W. Holman, Secretary The National Cooperative Milk Producers’ Federation ^^MERICAN farmers have a “No part of the nation has don« a greater war job than the South and the South is already eagerly laying plans for the peace,” said R. A, Brodesser, president ol Southern Dairies in a recent statement. “Careful scrutiny shows many things: Natural resources, a mild climate and a population intelli gent and able to take care of it self in any kind of problems that : might confront it.” he continued. l.HM iih 'f'-i ■1,1 KU ■'HI' ’lO lOli I/U'*’. lyt The modern practice of sowing red clover with OATS OR BARLEY GIVES A SECOND CROP —AFTER THE GRAIN HAS BEEN HARVESTED. SO, TOO, WHEN WE PUT OUR MONEY INTO WAR BONOS AND LIFE INSURANCE AND SAVINGS ACCOUNTS V/E ACCOMPLISH TWO THINGS — H£LP TO W/N TP£ F/GPT POP OU/S COU/VTPy'S SECOP/Ty AA/O BUILD OUP OWN AT THE SAME T/ME. ENGELHARD NEWS and he also said further; [ “For generations our main crop was cotton, and its progress up until 1910 was gradual. By 1910, however, cotton was no longer King. It is still important, but so also are tung oil, citrus fruit, tobacco, soy beans, peanuts, dairy and beef catttle, pecans, potatoes, peaches, sheep, goats, horses, mules, garden products, timber and many other items. “Industrially, in small commun ities and large ones, there are now some 15,000 manufacturers who are turning out extiles, steel, and other products for homes and factories—the things we need to live in peace and harmony. “The dairy industry once pur chased about 70 per cent of its supplies from the North. The South today, can produce its own needs right at home. It has the land, the climate and the people. “Huge war industries have been located in former agricultural a- reas, and they have trained thous ands of men. Today, we have what we once lacked—a large group of skilled workers. And, great deal more at stake in purchasing War Bonds than sim- ■ ply a patriotic urge to assist'in financing the war so that it may be prosecuted to an early and vic torious conclusion. Modern war demands governmental expendi tures far in excels of those which may be met by current revenue receipts. This means Government borrowing. If a large part of this borrowing is through commercial banks additional inflationary spending power is created through the expansion of credit. On the other hand, if the borrowing is largely from individuals much of their excess funds are drained off. Hence, the pressure on prices re sulting from unusually large funds bidding for limited amounts of goods and services is relieved, and thus inflation retarded. A tremendously increased agricultural production and some increase in average prices received above those paid by farmers have raised the net income of all United States farmers from the 1935- 39 average of $4.7 billion to $6.3 billion in 1941, $9.4 billion in 1942, and an estimated $12.5 billion in 1943. With available supplies of farm machinery re placements and building ma terials limited. Agriculture has a fund available for either debt retirement, savings read ily liquidated for future pur chases of machinery, build ings, etc., or for present in vestment in land. A marked decrease in farm mortgages in recent years indi cates that much of this fund has been properly applied to debt re tirement. However, activity in land sales and a very marked in crease in land values demon- strate that farmers are diverting a large part of into land purchases. From N , 1, 1943, to' March 1, 1944, aver^Ji land values per acre rose 1® F. t tt* cent, with the larger part rise taking place in the la®*' jji- months of the period. T*)® pe- crease during this four-monta 'j, riod was the highest on being 20 per cent greater t^aa .j average monthly rate of iaaa f, for the 1919-20 boom year, agevalues per acre have inc: more than one-third in the years. In the 1916-19 period rise was about the same. ..,\v It appears that an overcapa/ljy zation of probably tempoa? ^ high farm commodity prices j process just as in World Large mortgage debts ia^aa j; now, at high levels of income, prove disastrous when both agricultural production and pa'^^j fall. Land values are based oD J net return to land. With the of the war in sight and wiw^pf prospect that farm labor and costs will require a relatively jp er return leaving the retuan land less, the logical course land values at present 'wn'ald p pear to be do'wnward rather upward. . Therefore, it appears t*!* farmers would do well t® vest every available doH^a; beyond that needed for dej. retirement, in Governmej'. Bonds. These can be he* against the day when sary farm replacements ^ be available and ■when land values will have becoi® more stable. In this way the individual farmer may a®®' list in hastening the day of ret®''? of his son, and also have caP'" lal available to help fina®®® him in ventures of his o"® choice. V. S. Treasury Depa' ,rm‘' S\v Wi 'th ts tie. Mrs ‘V 7 ttij !te I her husband. Lee Pinkham and son, Jimmy i'' addition t othose, we will have ooumern states >o Trioi+ori roic+.-.TQ.. i ouor returning veterans, many of ample educational Mrs. Fannie Peebles was a Ra-jLee, visited relatives in Pantego leigh visitor this week. I Monday. Mr. and Mrs. R. B. TrotmanI siro, Mr^d »o™s gett. Mrs. Allen Osborn and Mrs. Calvin Watson of Norfolk were visitors here recently. Mrs. James Britain has return BLOOD TO S. C. EDITOR Pvt, Henry Melvin Ambrose of Manteo, who recently was induct- “All Southern states have, to- because it is not suitable for facilities ture or crops. ^ them with a highly developed me- everyone from rural primary “The timber crop has chanical skill and sense of coop- schools to highly developed col- brought many pulp mills iri*® jt eration which was obtained in the and universities where you South; the vegetable and military services. can obtain the maximum in pro- crop has brought many can®®' “Ways and means will be found, fessional and ecomonic knowled- and freezing plants; the fo* also, for those men who unfor- development of pastures ■tbf wi*' tunately were physically incapac- “Agriculture should always re re- bring many more slaughter ies, es, and a greater quantity of * .j itated to become a part of this main one of our major industries tii> ed into the Army, was among a great peacetitme agricultural and and to take advantage of thes.e milk, many pastuerizing group of volunteers from Fort industrial progress in the South, resources fully, we have estab- for fluid consumption, b0‘‘ de®' e to Suffolk after spending the j Jackson to give blood to help I “uJst previous to the war, in- lished major agriculture courses plants, cheese plants and summer nmnms with her daugh-1 sa've the life of Del Booth, night • dustry had shown a tendency to in our colleges and universities, sories; good roads have ^ er, rs. P. D. Midgett and Mr.'editor of the Columbia, S. C.,-'decentralize. The South received “We had a peacetime population transportation better. ^(0 its share of this program and that of about 35,000,000 people, one “The land and the farm i® Midgett and son, J. R. Britain and ; staff of the Associated Press, Mrs. Britain. iwhen a call was sent for volun- Mrs. I. W. Gibbs is spending j teers. Booth, suffering from in- some time with relatives in Wash, ternal bleeding, to taken to a hos- ington. Miss Edla ington. Marshall of Wash- pita land given an transfusion of blood emergency plasma. It EVERYBODY’S DOLLAR Expenses of the federal government in 1943 amounted to snore than 78 billion dollars; most of this was for national de fense which cost 72 billions. Other major items in the budget Included a billion dollars for aid to agriculture and almost 2 fcillions for interest on the public debt. % « ington is spending sometime here with her mother, Mrs. S. S. Mar shall. Mrs. Moir Edwards of Valdease has returned home after a visit with her mother, Mrs. Charles Farrow. J. H. Jarvis was a Norfolk vis itor last week. Miss Charlotte was a Washing ton visitor last Tuesday. Misses Elizabeth and Robena Gibbs were recent Norfolk visi tors. Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Etheridge were business visitors in Raleigh this week. Mrs. B. C. Spencer spent the weekend in Elizabeth City with was later learned that full blood was necessary, and the call was sent to Fort Jackson for volun teers. Pvt. Ambrose and one oth er soldier were selected for the donations. is the reason we were able to fourth of the population of the enduring base upon wL''" BROCKIE DANIELS NOW WITH WACS IN ENGLAND Pfc. Brockie Daniels, Woman’s Army Corps, wrote to her father, Capt. E'. S. Daniels of Manteo, on August 29, .«7,ating that she was somewhere in England. The letter reached Manteo on Thurs day, September 7. Pfc. Daniels was in Manteo on a visit several weeks ago. She was previously stationed in Seattle, Washington. convert rapidly our peaceful op- United States, and there is plen- national economy rests, a® erations to meet the emergency ty of land for many more. South we have the land, of a total war. Old plants were -‘xhe South realize! that it still 35,000,000 people to be kep* ® converted and new pl.nt. were econom/c .^d S problem" built, and we can use them to pro- and has many readjustments to farmer, the business „ duce our future needs. make. We do have the courage banker are ready W “The home of small industry the leadership and the resources anyone who b®® is in the South, and the oppor- j nraw materials to fully correct energy to wo tunity to get into such activity them. "— is waiting for the men interested «The South, fo rexample, can Plant more than a lull see®', in it. It is a country of homes grow excellent forage and pasture grains with two-thirds ® j and Amercan traditions where gn the year around, whereas the seeding of winter leg®' j men can live in peace and har- seasons in the North and North- and fertilize well for a » j,. mony with their families and gg^t are only a few months. Thus, spring hay crop and extra ro®® friends. jt can produce livestock and age. “Due to industrialization and dgij.y products more cheaply diversified agriculture, the pay- than in other areas. This can be rolls of the South have increas- true, but it is going to be neces- ed. These increased incomes will ggry first to survey our farms for bring permanent benefits to the soil type and then recommend communities in which they are the land usage. Some land now located. farmed will be put back in timber i ll(i In 1944, federal government expenditures rose to 50.8 per .cent of total gross national product. ^ If: ^ Good Pastures Profitable Prior to the Civil War, interest on the federal debt amount ed to a little more than three million dollars; by 1870 it had jumped 0 129 millions but then gradually decreased to 21 mil lions in 1910. As a result of World War I, interest on the fed^ eral debt again jumped in 1920 to more than a billion dollars but had declined to 659 million dollars in 1930. Interest on the federal debt since 1940 has amounted to more than a bil lion dollars each year and now is estimated at $2,650,000,000. The largest single item in state expenditures for the 48 states during the year 1942 was for operation and main tenance, which in that year amounted to $4,083,877,000; of this amount, $1,030,117,000 was for the operation and main tenance of schools. * * In the fiscal year 1942, expenditures for the forty-eight states amounted to a grand total of $4,820,492,000. During the same year, total federal expenditures amounted to more than Z2 billion dollars. Federal aid to the states had increased from five million ■dollars in 1915 to 786 million dollars in 1942. During the same approximate period, state aid to local governments increased from 119 million dollars in 1912 to 1,789 millions in 1943. * * * In 1942, the 48 states spent more than 862 million dollars for hi^way programs. Of this amount, approximately 54 million dollars was spent for highways in the New England states; 138 million dollars for the Middle Atlantic states; 154 mil lions—East North Central; 92 millions—West North Central; 149 millions—South Atlantic; 58 millions—East South Cen tral; 95 millions—West South Central; 42 millions—Mountain; and 80 millions for the Pacific states. Good pastnres conserve soil and vater, reduce livestock-production costs, and when operated in rotation with cultivated crops result in larger crop yields, says the War Food Admin istration. Pasture establishment and improvement practices become espe cially important in meeting wartime food and fiber needs. Assistance in carrying out such practices is available to American farmers in most States under the conservation program ad ministered by the Agricultural Adjust ment Agency. Soil is protected in several ways by productive pastures, WFA points out. Excellent insurance against erosion and loss of moisture is provided by the thick sod or cover while it is being grazed, and when turned under it acts to reduce erosion losses while the land Is being tilled. The sod also makes the soil more productive when it is broken to grow crops in rotation. Higher carrying capacity of good pas ture increases the farmer’s income by making supplemental feed from culti vated land less necessary. In addition, much less labor, power, equipment, seed, and fertilizer is required to oper ate land in grass and legumes than in cultivated crops. Good pasture practices Include re seeding of depleted land and planting of new pasture, contouring, weed con trol by mowing or clipping, appli cation of lime and phosphate, stock- water developments, and a season-long system for preventing overgrazing. When plowing and reseeding are nec essary, or when new land is being opened up for seeding to pasture, says WFA, fertilizer and lime should bo applied before the seed is sown. In most areas, poor pastures can be reno vated by disking, liming, fertilizing, and seeding more productive grasses and legumes. Legumes return nitrogen to the pas- tureland, and under average condi tions they should form about one-tbird of the planting. Government studies show. Mixtures of grasses and lep umes produce one-tldrd to one-hau more pasture feed than grasses alone. In addition, it is pointed out, reseeding a pasture with legumes and supple mentary grasses aids in erosion con trol by filling in bare spots in the turf, and tends tq lengthen the pasture season. -gs Conditions^nnder which pasture grows vary not only from State to! State and county to county, but even from farm to farm and field to field. The kinds and amounts of fertilizer, lime, and seed that should be used, and the fanning methods best suited to the land, vary in the same manner, says WFA. Artificial reseeding of pasture and range land under the Agricultural Con servation Program has been increased nearly fifty-fold since 1936, according to annual reports. In 1942, the last year for which complete figures are available, 9,923,000 pounds of seed were used for reseeding, compared with 195,000 pounds in the earliel year. PIPE DREAM til ■ y ■■'.fe., :? 7 '4 .A - \ .y'j -ft, ‘J'fiJ ,- m « s • ; f -lue WAR i'j'- mi >1' V:.' It;® PS St I 4- •PPl J -j ' J h-irKi .
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