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Pa"e Two THE HYDE COUNTY HERALD. SWAN QUARTER, N. C, fj-i ■ m i ill li * : jt '.y. ■ ■* ’ If.- '-/wr, ■ Jt' W .fi "TU:' 5 ll'-: ' m Hyde County Herald ! oUR DEMOCRACY by Mat PUBLISHED EV-ERY THURSDAY Ai iWAN QUARTER. NORTH CAROLINA. BY TIMES PRINTING CO., .'m:. THOS. E. SPENCER Editor, 'THEY- NEVER NEVER GAVE UP, NEVER GAVE IN, -J- STOPPED UNTIL THEY HAD WON." ~ -L.UMAtTLANp -/A/"K/V/6»rs OFrf^a.. 1*1 THURSDAY, FEB. 1, v Gkitered as Second Class Matter at the Postoffice at Swan Quarter. N. C. Subscription Rates: One Year $2.; Six Months $1; Three Months 60c. u Vol. VI THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1945 No. 22 HOMER. ^CROY Ai il« m U4 ov. WAR BONDS KEEP FARM DEBTS SAFE ‘ “Encourage farmers 'to m'aintain a proper balance between making payments on mortgages and investing in War Bonds,” says the American Bankers Association in a bulletin address ed to the rural 'bankers of America. Banks are advised to “encourage farmers to maintain a: proper balance'bdtween making payments on mortgages and investing in War Bonds. If a person pays a mortgage all up now, and then has to get another one after the war he may: not be able to get terms as favorable 'as those he now has.” ] The bankers also call attention to the fact that “wear and' team on farm m'achinery and buildings must be paid for even-1 tually, whether or not the mortgage is all 'paid off. A farmer | will probably be in a safer position 'to end up the war with a moderate sized mortgage at a low interest rate and a good 'iV'/'i'.4 ■; nest egg in War Bonds than no mortgage, no bonds,,and bad- ‘ ly run-doiwn buildings and equipment.” j This is a part of the program of the American Bankers As-1 sociatiop aimed at getting farmers to build up large enough War Bond reserves to give them financial protection in the post-war period. —i 0 'ill CHAPTER Xn He was swinging his trunk, and, In a mornenr. would be on top of me. 1 jumped up. But a man next to me put his hand on my shoulder and said, “Sit down. You won’t be hurt." I saw other people were risking their necks, so I did sit down, none too comfortably. The circus pro cession turned a corner and missed me, seemingly, by inches As I looked more carefully, I saw the whole thing was a fake. It wasn't a circus procession at all, but only a picture. I had heard vaguely of ,! moving pictures, but they had al ways seemed off at the other side of the world and had nothing to do with i me personally. But here they were and I was seeing them! BACK FROM THE DEAD FROM THE NORFOLK LEDGER-DISPATACH The 513 thin, ragged, sick and hungry men released by Am- ericjan Rangers and Filipino guerrillas from the Cabanatuan prison camp are the first prisoners to be rescued in mass from the Japanese in this war. Thousands of others are en during What 'these men endured at the hands of brutal cap- tors as they waited three years and more for such ^n hour to strike. This rescue has lighted a bright candle of hope for them and for the thousands at home Who endure the waiting •with them. I The rescue operation 25 miles behind the enemy lines was i an exploit of great daring, apparently executed with the ut most skill. The Japanese garrison at the prison camp was tak en by surprise and every one of its members killed or dis abled, with the loss of 27 of the rescue force. The operation ^ was of little military value, measured in the cold terms of | Strategy or tactics. In its spiritual value it was onb of the j outstanding achievements of this war. | For three years these prisoners had endured indescribable | hardships. Some of the 486 Americans in the rescued group | had taken part in the infamous “March of Death” \from Ba-| taan. In a living death, they would not die. They, have lived j in all its horror the story of inhuman treatment which has i deeply blackened the record of Japan in this war,/. The procession of gaunt and haggard men Which made its way across the dusty Luzon plains in ambulances, trucks, wagons and on foot, back to life again, makes one of the most moving incidents of this war. It was a splendid thing for these survivors of three years of terror to be able to march back in triumph as if from the dead, to see their flag again on the road to victory, to breathe free air again, to' _ pjpove that their country still produces 'men whose spirit can not be conquered. 0 “I call upon 'the millions of victory gardeners who have done so much to swell the nation’s food supply in these war years to continue their good work,” s'ays President Roosevelt. —) ^0 “Mail is the biggest morale builder of our armed forces, but it can be delivered prom'ptly overseas only if the Ameri can public cooperates by using V-imail as much as possible,” says Rear Admiral Joseph R. Rodman, USN, Director of Nav al Communications. In I896 THE WRIGHT BRdTHERS DETERMINED TO BUILD AND FLY A HEAVIER.-THAN-AIR MACHINE — WORKED, STUDIED, EXPERIMENTED. IN 1903- AT KITTY HAWK, NORTH CAROLINA—THEY SUCCEEDED. From the twelve seconds of that first flight MODERN AVIATION HAS DEVELOPED - A MAJOR. RELIANCE OF AMERICA AT WAR — HOLDING INFINITE PROMISE FOR PEACE-TIME AMERICA TOMORROW— IN JOBS, IN THE OPPORTUNITY FOR SCIENTIFIC PROGRESS AND ACHIEVEMENT- IN PROMOTING WORLD UNDERSTANDING THROUGH THAT FREE EXCHANGE OF TRADE AND IDEAS IV/y/CW /S BAS/C /N THE PROCESS OF PEMOCEACy. A GIANT INDUSTRY to WaM, Cktmged. in TflUk titUi^atiptu 1942-44 QmpcMii uHth CUmA^ 1935-39 Increa.se of these for the fighting fronts. ■ i tor the iightinfif 1 t T total fluid evaporated, dry ice production milk milk whole milk cream hrings decrease here butter dou/n 4i IriUipn Un. up 14 UUiPKUfA Sourcg; II.S.D.A* up up up up up lOi 3 3 1 1 tnUunUa. UllioKlii.* Munlii* HUumlU* InUiMU^ ’*Fluia mUk e()ulv«Utit N.nc Beware of Complacency. When the war news is good, re double your efforts on the home front. Set an example your boy can be,proud of. Write your serviceman cheerful, re-assuring and frequent letters. Use V-Mail when you write overseas. FIRE DEPT. ANSWERS 'DON’T SEND POSTAL TWO CALLS THIS WEEK 1 NOTES OVERSEAS Persons writing to service men and women O'verseas are urged not to send Postal Notes—simpli fied money order forms—io their husibands, sons, and sweethearts i-n the service overseas. Although the postal notes go on sale by the Post Office •De partment on February 1, 1945, Navy post offices afloat and at overseas bases are not authorized to cash the notes. They may only be cashed with-, ■ in the United States and are good Wi’ton Pugh, 17-year-old Salvo two calendar months The Manteo Fire Department answered two calls this week, first to a chimney fire at the home of W. P. Basnight early Thursday morning and another Thursday evening at the Pioneer Theatre. Both fires were brought under control before serious damage was done. SALVO BOY GOES INTO COAST GUARD bey, began service in the Coast . Guard Tuesday, January 30, af- 13r having passed preliminary ex- l minations on January 23. Wil- ' n has been working with the '.gine»ring department for the past year. •J ilOMAS TWIFORD, S 1-C RECEIVES DISCHARGE Thomas Twiford, S 1-c, airb ed at his home in Kitty Hawk on Friday, January 26, having re ceived a medital discharge from the Najvy on January 24. Mr. Twiford’s wife and daugh'ter, Ophelia, live at Kitty Hiawk; a-iso from the date of issue. GETS GOOD CONDUCT MEDAL Opl. Wdllda*! C. (Billy) Berry, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Ber ry of Swan Quarter, who is lo cated in Italy, has recently re ceived the Good Conduct Medal. Cipl. Berry entered the Army in April 1943 and was sent overseas in October, 1943. He is 'locafed with a division of engineers. One-third of the heifer calves now saved and raised for re placement purposes turn out to be unprofitable cows. A new hie parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. T. method is being tested for jndg- IT'- k'’'- b°°n in active jin-a the four-month-old heifer service for several yetirs. calf. OurJ^erchan t^/ffar/ne v--; Our record farm crop would be of little value to the war effort without ships to carry it abroad to our troops...nor even ex- fst w/thout ships tohn'ny /arm o/ds such as fertif/zers; /nsecffades, totheCfS. 'm OarAterchant Marine 'i year/y hrinys m//h'on^ of pounds ^nitrates, pnospdjaieSfPyrefArum, rotenqne, redsyaiff, binder tw/ne, fibers. Jute and burlap to America. " ' ' - ~Ts«i PERCENT OF LEJiOIHG U.S. CROPS EXPORTED m I93B [ f4^TOBACCO W/. COTTON^ IBS*/. ftCOARSE G-RAINS 26Y. ^BREAD GRAINS f 24% ' SHARE OF FARJd PROOOCEj ‘ lit AVU U.S. EAPOATS A IN SA*AE y EAR WAS 26% ^ When the war ends, our farmers will be assured of a strongJL Merchant Marine able to oduertise Atner/can in foreign markets and ' transport theni abroad} * ] information courtesy of Amernxn w' j rnrormanon courtesy of flmerri tprrr.foor Manure f^siduie, ffem (gW.N.U. SERVICE tion, we considerea kamr-corn farm ing about 'as low as one could sink Or he might want to try wheat in Nebraska, or South Dakota, so trade his land and take his chance on wheat. Or he might want “upland” farming and move to eastern Colo rado. Now and then one of our peo pie would pick up and go to Texa.*- where it was net farming but ranch ing, which was something we didn'i understand at all. One ot the Sew ells moved to Texas and bought an onion farni. No hogs, corn, or cat tie We felt it was a family dis grace. One who, sooner or later, came uj 11 against aristocracy ot land was the hired man. Our hand ate with us and nothing was thought of it. If a , , . • , ..u J 'family poked its hired man off into In two or three minutes the parade , everybody in the neigh- was over, and I was out on the street | borhood, would have been outspoken. Evening^ he sat by the same stofe and took part in the family conver sation; if the stove wasn’t going to suit him. he threw some cobs in; if it was going too briskly, he turned the damper and took care of that. There was a difference when “com pany” was heard outside. He might get up to go to his room, but usually we’d say, “You don’t have to leave, Dell. Stay and visit with them.” Usually he stayed. But on Sunday there was a decid ed difference. He would not dream Where did the butter go?”, is quickly answered by a study of this chart by the National Dairy Council. Eight billion pounds of fluid milk are necessary to make the extra cheese, dry whole milk, evaporated milk, and ice cream for America’s fighting forces and for Lend-Lease. An aMitiMal loy, billion pounds of milk are being consumed to main tain the efincieney of war workers and the physical stamina of Ameri- can civilians. This represents total increased requirements of 18% billion pounds of milk. production since the prewar period has increased over 14 billion pounds. This leaves a deficit of about 4% billion pounds of milk winch has been shifted from butter production to other concentrated milk products also needed on the fighting fronts. That shift accounts' ^ million pounds of butter, which, in addition to about 370 million pounds of butter a year taken by the government lor hghters and for Lend-Lease accounts for a reduction of nearly five pounds per capita for civilians. Most of the_ amount of milk sacrificed by civilians is going to the faghting forces in the form of their favorite spread—butter. The bal ance is helping to win the war by keeping workers and fighters properly nourished with other concentrated miIk*nroducts. As I was standing in front of the building, trying to decide which way to go, there was a commotion among tlje people and a great sight-seeing carriage drew up. A few people got out, and, immediately that they did, others scrambled into their seats. A man sitting ^t the front called out, “Come on and take a ride in a horseless carriage!” I studied the situation and saw it was free. By this time there was no place left except in the front row beside going to church with the family, a man wearing a pair, of gauntlet And it would never occur to the fam- gloves and sitting beside a wheel him. In the first place, as big as one on a corn sheller, Sunday was his day off and he left except this wheel was parallel with be rode away on horseback, the ground, and was fastened on an was a kind of trust with a hired up-and-down rod. I squeezed in, and *^00 to be back Monday morning in a moment the man shoved some choring time. Sometimes by things down and pulled other things boon he was pretty yawny and when up, and the great open-topped car-1 evening came he popped into bed as riage began to move. A man, also as the milk was strained. But sitting on the front row, stood up j there. You could depend on and put his hands to his mouth and , shouted. “Clear the path! Clear the j One spring. Pa began to hunt P^'-b!” I around for a hand. He went to town People turned, terrified to see our ' and on the street he stopped the giant conveyance bearing down on people he knew and told them he them, and darted out of the way, as | was looking for a “good, reliable we chugged and jolted past. But I. man.” He went to the hardware had to pay for every chug and jolt, store and left word there; then to because I was wedged in so close to '^the bank and asked Joe Jackson if he the driver that every time he hauled knew of any changes in help. Then indentation in his sKin unae* jaw, where something had out. On a finger oji his lef was a ring made out of a bor®® nail; and he had a silver pd which later I discovered he with a key. He had a round human-hair watch chain, night he looped it over the post and let the watch dangle it. We showed him to his rooa® got his trunk put away, ^^e® took him out to let him learn to chore. And I followed for an*' citement of it, tremendously someone was going to help When milking time came, 'b pitched in with a hearty will- Pa was watching. He’d seen ® brooms. i0' at the wheel, he dug an elbow into my ribs. But that was all right. Ev erything in the world was all right. At last we came to a kind of start ing station where we all had to get out, and where new people got in. I felt tremendously triumphant, for I knew very well I had had a horse less carriage ride and that it would indeed be something to talk about. But moving pictures—well, no one had ever heard of them, or cared about them. Thus, by an unusual combination of circumstances, I saw my first motion picture and had my first automobile ride within an hour. While we were there, my mother said she wished she could see a kin dergarten, so Mrs. Day found where there was one, and took my mother. The next morning at breakfast, my, mother was stiU talking about it. At last our stay was over, and Mrs. Day came to the depot with us and we got on the train. When we got off, the neighbor was there to meet us and \vhen we got home Phebe had supper ready. She sat, | with her gold-rimmed glasses and 1 little turned-up nose, listening while we recounted the wonderful things we’d seen and done. Ma said the most interesting thing she had seen was the kindergarten. I was glad, after I had gone 99 miles. I’d seen something more exciting than a kin dergarten. Pa said the most inter esting thing he had seen was the stockyards. I felt sorry for him. We had an aristocracy, founded on land. Our people did not judge each other by clothes, or education, or family, even by money. A per son may have been known to have money in the bank, or stocks or bonds, but we felt these would prob ably slip away from him and he’d end up living in an L with a rela tive. “If he has stocks and bonds, why doesn’t he turn them 4nto land?” we asked, and it was a ques- to the livery stable to see if the proprietor knew of anybody looking 'a id: After supper we sat around j, ing, going through the process b* * j,| ting acquainted. ’Renzo told * „ crops on the other side of the co and prices things were bringing- told about a "big farmer wbo .j put in a “hay tedder.” It was first time I ever heard the word- ^ “I see you brought your Pa said, finally. “Would yon playing us something?” “I’ll try it,” said ’Renzo oblil’® ly, and began to tune up. ing one string after another wn jjj thick, work-hardened thurnbnai • got some rosin out of a paPf^ put his violin under his chin ^ drew his bow across the string®' a moment his ^oot was going down and our4iving room was .jj with the first fiddle music whole existence. ' l3P 'Renzo rested his violin on b'® and talked a while. Then back his fiddle and again the thrillib^’ ^j. citing sounds rang through the ro When ’Renzo went off to b*® bed, our room seemed lonesom®' ^ was the best evening we’d ba months. “We’ll wait arid see how be P®” out,’* Pa said. I hoped to God he would ^ I am glad to say he did. a good worker and didn’t rest horses too long at the ends c* rows, and didn’t mind pulling b®’y weeds. It was understood on r® days a hand could do light the bam, such as greasing ness, or cleaning out the cobs the mangers. ’Renzo would do t® than that. If it stopped raining’ j would dart out to the woodpf® ® jt begin to split railroad ties. ^ started to rain again, he wouW back to the barn and climb In'® manger with his cob basket Bill We saw we had a treasure- Pa still was skeptical. Now and we would get a treasure: b®* ' night he would come home as o® as hell. Sometimes we’d go to town and bring him out- if one ever got drunk enoug j, land in jail. Pa was through * ^ him, no matter how perfect be in other respects. lil One day ’Renzo told Pa (je Pa would get him some ''®®bl(,ut would see what he could do a the gophers. Never before and enduring possession was land. A man who had a quarter section did not stand as high as the man who had a half section. After all. people had to be weighed on some sort of scales, and land scales were as good as any. We had a love of the soil, as have the peasants in Prance, but I don’t believe_ ours was as deep, or as touching. For in France they lived generation after generation on the same farm, while ours was a chang ing country. Our people bought a farm, tilled it a while, then discov ered what seemed to be a better “lo cation” and moved on to that. A farmer might try corn-hog-and-cat- tle farming in our section, then feel he could do better in Iowa and move there. Or he might want to try the “hardpan” in Kansas, and so give that a whirL Or he might want to try “Oklahoma red,” and move down there where he would have to raise kaffir corn. To us, in our sec- Exciting sounds rang through the room. for a “place.” But he didn’t go to the pool hail; anybody who hung around a pool hall wouldn’t be any good. When he came home he said he’d heard of a man who seemed promis ing. His name was ’Renzo Davis, he said, a man from the east side of the county. A day or so later a spring-wagon with two men in it * Fni , YVMgVil W 1 Lil L W U IIICII ill It tion hard to answer. The only safe turned into our drive lot. but we did not connect this with our new hand, for usually a new hired man came on horseback with a couple of suitcases tied to the saddle. If he came walking across the field carry ing just one syitcase, we regarded him with suspicion. A man with one suitcase wasn’t going to stay long. Especially if he wanted to see his room first. Or if he asked how many cows. It did not take long to see why ’Renzo had corne in a spring-wagon, for he had a trunk and, to our sur prise, a violin case. He had got a friend to drive him over; soon the friend departed and ’Renzo, our new hand, was left with us. It was exciting to have this break * in our routine; in fact, it was ex citing to have anyone come; and here was a man with a trunk and violin case! I could hardly keep my eyes off him. had ’ hand volunteered to trap for it meant additional work; o® p of this Pa didn’t think he could them, gophers being what they So he gave him a steel trap told him to see what he could do- In a day or two, ’Renzo with a gopher tail. Soon he bad other. So Pa went to town and half a dozen traps. ’Renzo '*'b jj dig a hole about a foot square it -crossed the run, then get o® knees and go through a careful ess of covering the trap and pt ing the tongue with just the ®*^p thickness of dirt. Then he y j fasten the trap to the board ®b the board over the top of tb® and cover it with dirt so as W ® out the light. In a day or two would have a gopher. ’Renzo became a most addition to our family; b® cheerful and had a sense of bu® , and could tell the simplest thinS had happened to him during ^ day’s work and make it absorb ^ I began to realize, after a “ that he exaggerated. But that . all right; the element of ®?f®®0l- truth was there; and by makinl ^ lowances we could come pretty ® to the kernel. The neighbors came to him and when we were invited party, 'Renzo went along as ter of course. Sometimes I uncomfortable feehng that h* the most welcome one of us. f He developed a quality tba* hands had. Of making ®obb®^j^ addition to his wages. A bo®®® gjn longing to a neighbor had shocked by lightning and was , sidered worthless. ’Renzo tr ^ for him, put him by himself pasture on soft ground and br® , him out of his shakes. He tr® tty I him for a better horse and P®^^ j i soon bought a set of harness ’Renzo was thirty, rather on the I Public sale. Little by Uttle he small side, with a th_in face and an ' “pick up” things. (i’lea.se turn to Page 4)
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