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THE HYDE COUNTY HERALD, SWAN QUARTER, N. C.
THURSDAY, FEB. 15,
1945
Hyde County Herald , oUR DEMOCRACY
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MEMORIALS
4to w, great.,
Vcl. VI
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15 ,1945
No.
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LOAFERS AND HOARDERS
The Mead Committee has made public glaring examples
of loafing on the jdb and labor hoarding. j-L * I t- L
Stories of a similar nature from unofficial sources have ^ 1 hat mAKCS
long been common knowledge. Private citizens can recount
from their own experience, disgraceful examples of delib-
rate loafing on war jobs. Many conscientious workers have the end,d3irc fo rV
Abraham Lincoln-
‘*Lct us h&ve f&ith
and in that ^
faitk let us to
quit war jobs because they could not stand the waste of time
they were required to endure.
The answer to criticism of labor loafing and labor hoarding ^
is always, “We have produced the goods.*’ That may be true,
tout at what a price How much more could have been pro
duced otherwise! We have now reached the point where both
(money and man-hours are growing scarcer. Let us hope that
if the Mead Committee is not able to penalize or punish labor
loafers or labor hoarders, that revelations which it can make
will arouse the nation and shame the offenders into a cor
rection of their ways.
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do our duty AS
we understand
(f AMERICANS
K7
George WASHINGTON-
W: I can promise,
lli Y_ These, be the
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Iniep-it^ and
firmness are all
,,, oouatie lon^ or
neper fail me. **
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HOMER,
^CROY
(gW.N.U. SERVICE
CHAPTER XIV
With the secrecy of youth, I said
I nothing to anyone. Even when Ma
; asked me how I liked the city boys
I and girls I said. All right. I had no
I friends, yet I liked people and
yearned desperately to make
friends.
every penny they coiild see. jcTvery.
body would try to take advantage oi
me. But he never mentioned wom
en. And Ma did only once, and that
was when we were alone for a mo
ment on the depot platform. “Ho
mer, I am going to pray you won’t
have anything to do with bad girls."
Pa stood holding the telescope and
I wore shoes, except in stormy ' stood with her arm around me
weather when I wore boots, as I did
The train thundered in.
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WAR TEACHES FIRE PREVENTION
“Fire protection in the war effort has not been restricted
to the work at established posts, camps, and stations,” says
W. E. Mallalieu, of the National Board of Fire Underwriters.
“Fire Fighting has, and is continuing to play an important
role in the theatre of operations. The urgent need for trained
fire fighters oversea/ was' recognized early. In response, for
example, the Army engineers established a school in this
country to train men in fire fighting and in the use of the
latest firedighting equipment. Since the invasion of Africa,!
more than 6,000 men have undergone this specialized training. I
“Few persons in our sheltered home life in the United
States realize all that has been accomplished in this connec
tion. The record of low fire loss in the theatre of operations
is one which has already proved the value of such schooling.
This training will have an effect on fire prevention and fire
protection in civilian life. The very fact that thousands of
AND TO THE AMERICAN IDEALS OF
FAITH-COURAGE-INTESRITV- HUMANITY
on the farm One morning, as I
was saddling Dave, he bumped my
foot. That day at school my foot
was sore and I quietly slipped off
my boot. “Colonel’’ Cox, who sat
behind me, saw that I had it off
and got it away from me. In a
few minutes the teacher told me to
come to the board and explain some
thing. I said I didn’t know how, but
she told me to come and try. I j
limped up, one boot on, one boot >
off ... a humiliating moment.
People were fascinatihg to me.
But I had seen very few, only our
relatives and neighbors; now sud
denly there was a whole new world.
I listened to the students recite, in-
i trigued far more by them than by
what they were saying. I would
discover some item of interest about
one of the students; the next day I
would discover something else. Ev
ery day I added to my collection of
tacts about each student. No longer
were they a formless horde, all lined
up against me, each was an indi-
Ma kissed me and whispered,
“Don’t forget what I said”
Pa handed up the telescope.
“■Write whenever you can, Homer.”
I leaned over and looked back and
there they stood as far as I could
COAST FOLK SHOULD
PLAN FOR A GARDEN
‘but if properly cared for will
furnish a Ipt of fruit for family
use that ydu would not have if
men will return to their homes with pictures of the tragedy February Time to Get Seed and ^°The°couitf agent’s ffi
brought dbout by fire impressed upon their minds, while '; Begin Planting; Good idea To , special^'ass'iLnL
O'ther thousands will have basic knowledge of how to combat Grow Some Fruit i neighborhood that would
! like to cooperate in getting each
W'e snouid make fire prevention our motto in our daily 3vill be wise in growing a garden chard.
life. All communities Can pull together toward the control of '*5®cause the food —
th. common enamy, tire-.Which is never licked. Let us all S"he
Hpply common sense in avoiding unnecessary hazards., war. Feib^uary is the month for
starting gardens, and now is a
CIGARETTES COST MORE THAN ELECTRIC SERVICE ; wTbeTn. hand'^as'^^eyd.
SLADESVILLE NEWS
My problem began as soon as 1
arrived. What was I going to do
with my telescope while I went to
look for a job? There must have
been a checkroom, but I did not
know what it was lor. I solved this
problem which had suddenly jumped
up before me, by looking around for
a grocery store, tor a grocery store
was a sort of club for farmers;
where they met and visited and left
their packages and parcels and chil
dren. I found one and asked *a
man, who seemed to be the owner, if
I could leave my telescope. He stud
ied me a moment, then said I could
if I wanted to. I marched to the
rear, as we always did In our own
grocery store, and left It among the
onlf
shiiiie I wasn't Ccked. Not
that, but I would scoop his
A man was sorting letters
shoving them into boxes.
glimpse of want-ad answers.
“Where will I find the city ®
tor?” I asked professionally- j
“ ‘The city editor?’ ’’ he reP®®
“The city editor,’’ I said flr®
“His office is upstairs.”
1 stared in astonishment,
got there, for there were only
persons in the office. No green ®
shade. But I didn’t know wh®
I wanted to work on such a
paper, or not, for the other offi®®
been humming with activity. ^
T want to speak to the chy *
tor.”
A man stopped running hiS
typ®"
writer and looked at me curioP
“Do you want a job?”
“Yes, sir.”
“Come back at one-thirty.
vidual; each had traits and charac- boxes and barrels. TTien 1 started
teristics a good deal like my Knabb up the street to get my job.
neighbors. ’The discovery just abont
floored me.
I began to feel a bit more at home
and made a few shy advances, so
I had never read a Horatio Alger
Jr. story and, so far as I know, I
had never heard the name, so I had
no false ideas of what a young man
stimulatmg were people to me. Lit-1 must face. All I knew was that
tie by little I accumulated a few i I was going to get a job and nothing
1,1 . 1... , T . going to keep me from it
I asked the direction of the news
paper offices, and started north up
the street. I saw a streetcar, but I
1 crept down the stairs, beglP®*®j
to get the hang of the thing-
had known there were evening P
pers and morning papers, but o
Miss Ann Green of Norfolk is
spending a short while with her
narents, Mr. and Mrs. R. W
The American public spends almost 50 per cent more on May peas, "spring salad croip-s, (jj.g0p
cigarettes than on electric service. According to figures nub- carrots, beets, radishes, onions, „ ", „ , ,
lished recently by the Securities and Exchange Commission, rn^Ca^aje^ vlsi^nr ^ "
txie gross revenues of the six largest cigaretite manufadurers pianl^ should be put out. I Hu^h ^'ortescue formerly of
in th United States in 1943 totaled $1,553,032,000. During the H you have been having trou-' this place, who now is a Washing-
same period the revenues received by all American electric af-|ton re^dent, is quite ill at his
,utilities privately owned and publicly-owned—^for residen- put out sets to use for green! ^'I'^ery.
tial and farm service totaled $1,100,000,000, or nearly half a onions and plant seed of River- Whitfield is visiting Mr,
billion dollars less than the receipts of the cigarette manu- Spanish to use as dry
Onions. Those grown from seed
■ * I will keep better than the onions
O j grown from sets.
You are urged to use V-mail when writing friends and rCla-- have a good sup-
+;-..Qo XT-~ -1 A . , Piy of home grown fruits, make
fives overseas. V-mail saves cargo space. A single reel con-1 a start on that this season :byput-
Itaining 1,800 letters fits into a three and one-quarter inch
space shipping carton weighing seven ounces. That many
letters weigh 45 pounds.
ting out strawberries, boysentoer-
ries, grapes, pears, plums, apples,
and peaches. For the home orch
ard the following is suggested:
100 plants each of Blakemore
North Carolina women were urged today by Governor R.! Massey strawiberries.
Gregg Cherry to give fullest support to the current campaign! f B^ncr^rTpesr Concord and
to enlist 105 women for training in the Women’s Arrhy Corps! Niagara.
to serve as medical and surgical technicians in Army General! ^ Scuppemong and 1 James or
Hospitals which are nmv receiving over 30,000 war casualties, ^^2“ plunS^TDamson, 1 Methley
monthly from the battlefronts.
FARMER SENCOURAGED TO
GROW SOME STRAWBERRIES
or Abundance.
3 or 4 apple trees.
6 peach trees.
Hundreds of communities in
North Carolina -will specialize in
the growing o.f small fruits this
year and the strawiberry is the
favorite of such fruits in most
of the communities.
' "^^6 above assortment will not
ha-i o tVi • 1 aro ina a rea y g great amount of space j W. Green
have their plans under way, ac-; '
and Mrs. J. M. Credle at their
home in Sladesville.
P. C. Simmons of Fairfield was
a visitor here Friday.
F. V. Harris and Miss Eva Mc
Millan of the FSA office of Swan
Quarter were business visitors
here Friday.
Miss Lantha Sawyer is sipend
ing a few days with her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Lee Sawyer.
R. W. Green, Lee A. Sawyer
and Statz Cullifer were Belhaven
visitors Sautrday.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter M-cHar-
ney of Norfolk visited relatives
here this weekend.
Mrs. Julia Williams returned to
her home Friday after spending
some time fwith her daughter,
Mrs. R. W. Green.
Miss Lois Ange spent the
weekend with Mr. and Mrs. R.
friends, like a tree making rings I
pulled up out of the areaway and
began taking my lunch to the school-
yard and eating it on a bench. Some
times some of the very boys I had
slid down the areaway to avoid
would rush through their lunch at
home to come and sit on tlie bench '
with me. |
A change had taken place. But I |
did not know why.
I became acquainted with a farm !
girl from another part of the county.
It seemed to me she was wonderful
and I began to “go" with her. I
knew her father owned more land
than mine, but I didn’t realize how
important this was going to be.
One day, when I happened to
mention that my father owned a
quarter section, she said, “I know
that.”
I was surprised, as I knew I hadn’t
mentioned it before. So I asked her
how she knew it.
“I looked it up In the plat book.”
' My ardor fell off, and a young
man whose father owned far more
land than mine succeeded, later, in >
winning her. Another example of I
the aristocracy of land. j
As I plowed and harrowed and j
hayed, I thought how wonderful it
would be to go to St. Joseph and get!
a job as a reporter. The same
feeling of doubt and lack of self-
confidence laid hold of me that I
had had when 1 had first decided to
go to high school. What if I should
fail! Yet I did want desperately to
work on a "city” paper.
I wandered around the
teeUng lonely but confident N®
spoke to anyone else. Hardly
horses on the street.
At one-thirty I climbed the »
again. The place seemed alive
people. The man who had been
ning the typewriter silently P® jgsl
a finger at a man sitting at a j
and I marched over and
wanted to go to wo^k for hint. T®
God he could hear!
Finally, when I was through’ ^
said, “How much money do '
want?”
I said, “I’ll leave that to you-
Maryvllle that would have be®
challenge for the man to be
ous. But I was to find city
were different. j
“I can pay you $9 a w®®^^en
told him I would take it. ‘ ^
can you go to work?”
“As soon as I can get a pi®®®
Uve.”
I found a rooming house and
on a streetcar and started for
to
grocery store. The telescope
was
there. I hadn’t been in the
city
long enough to realize Pa knew
he was talking about.
wba‘
I took my telescope to my
rooib-
I was shocked, after I had
tnad®
was
all arrangements, to find there _ ^
a toilet inside the house instead
being in the place 1 was accustoin ^
to. What a terrible roaring h h®® ,
It seemed vulgar and I felt ashan®
every time I slunk into it.
Well, I’d have to make uP
toy
mind to get used to city way®-
I was given a “run” of the
takers and the YMCA which ^
the first I knew about that org®''g*j
tion. A place for young men.
"What is it you want?” he asked
I had graduated from high school, ! * ®”ished.
but the world I knew was the Croy | wasn’t surprised. Hadn’t I seen one
farm and our town. But how thor- | in Omaha?
oughly I knew then, our neighbors
and the people I came in contact
I found the office of the paper.
T u J u A , ' w’hich is now the St. Joseph News-
w.thl I had been out of the county : and walked
H. R. Niswon'ger, in charge of
Horticultural Extension at State
College, is s'ponsoring this activ
ity. In the counties the farm and
-home agents are giving direct
supervision, and vocational agri
cultural teachers, rural neig-hlbor-
hood leaders, and representatives
of all agriicultural agencies are
c oiperating. Each neighborhood
ccnducts its awn project.
The neighborhood leaders, both
V lite and Negro, select some
It rchant or other centrally lo
cated person through whom all
8 orders are pooled. Every fam-
i in the community is encour- j
; ed to set from 100 to 200 straw- I
f. "ry plants, where this is the j
c. )sen fruit, and the county and ]
; L .ne agents supply the neces-1
f -y \ information for fertilizing, |
tuitivating, and consenvinig the'
crop. Several meetings are held
during the first year so that lo
cal proiblems connected with the
production and handling of the
crop may ibe worked out.
■With the rationing of fruits,
Niswonger says that the growing
of some such small fruits as
strawiberries for a specialty, with
all the families in a given area
cooperating, offers the very best
of mpot;in« the situation
and ij:.-u.in.g uu n ndeqi’Tc diet.
cording to Niswonger. Some in
dividuals have expanded their 1
growing of strawberries from a |
few' rows in the garden to as,
much as half an acre. Some go j
so far as to predict that North I
Carolina may one day be known
as the ‘‘Strawberry State.”
FULL SPEi-D ANEADi
, , J Ai. , , A ■ 1 ' ‘wain.cu boldly in, for I
rV n K ^ had that all studied out, and asked
fThn, f I?" ' businesslike where I could find
L! T ‘he city editor. Pretty soor, I found
NORTH CAROLINA MAY BE THE
"FIFTH STATE” IN MANY WAYS
but it’s a poor
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In Number of Hospital Bed*
Per 1,000 People
Why not ask your Legislator
to Support the proposed
State-Wide plan few
MORE DOCTORS-MORE HOSPITALS
MORE INSURANCE
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the other boys or girls had been any
farther. One day one of the boys
told me he was going to Oregon on
a visit.
I thought of it all the way back
on Dave. When I told Ma about it
in an awed tone, she laughed and
said, “He means Oregon, Missouri.”
And that was what he had meant, a
distance of about thirty miles.
It hurt my father when I told him
I wanted to go to St. Joseph and
myself standing by the desk of a
man wearing a green eyeshade. It
seemed to me that every man in tlie
office was staring at me and burning
with curiosity. Not very far from
the truth, as I can now believe, for I
was tali and lanky and thin as a
rail—six feet two inches—with an
overbit upper jaw and a large nose,
and I was painfully ill at ease. I
edged closer, for I didn’t want all
the staring people to hear, and told
try to get a job. Why did I want to 1 lb® baan with the green eyeshade
go off and leave our good farm?
It pained me to Insist, but there
was that inner urge to do the kind of
work I wanted to do. And Pa was
pained, too. Never had a Croy, or a
Sewell for that matter, wanted to
leave the land. But finally he said
he would not “hold out.”
When we went to get the family
telescope, ^there was a hole in the
that I wanted a job.
“What is it you want?” he asked
when 1 finished.
corner. A telescope, I must explain.
I again imparted the confidential
Information. Then he cupped his
hand behind his ear, and I realized
he was hard of hearing. So I had
to shout at the top of my voice. He
took his hand down.
“Don’t need anybody. Got too
was made of two pieces. The top
of one fitted over the other, like a
pillbox lid. Around the middle was
a single leather strap, and there was
a handle. Some way or other a
mouse had been trapped and had
gnawed its way to freedom. “I
many now.
I could hardly believe my ears.
But I had come for that job and 1
was going to have it. So I started
all over again telling’him how good I
was. He took his hand down again
and calmly started to read copy.
Pretty soon 1 was out on the
wish you didn t have to go off to the j street, shocked and unbelieving that
city with a hole in your telescope,”
Ma said.
But I was not thinking of the hole.
I would make good. I would get that
job!
Pa and Ma and I got in the hack
and started to town along the road I
had traveled four years on old Dave.
As we drove .along. Pa told me how
I must g
Joe wa?
it could have happened to me.
There was another paper there,
the St. Joseph Gazette. The paper
Eugene Field had worked on, and
Henry M. Stanley and Walter Hines
Page. It was not as good a paper,
and 1 knew little about it. But it
W'as a newspaper.
.. t'Avcv.v 4.V* — .g,
they were playing pool. I was
ginning to see Pa was right.
i*
As exciting and thrilling
was. it seemed to me that w
night’s work would never end. t-'
hours. All my life I had got ^
early and gone to bed early-
must not only stay up, but work-
The first chance I had I went t
see the house where Jesse
was shot and stared, strangely
fected, at the hole in the wall- a
:nd
looked at the spot on the floor wn
his lifeblood had drained away-
Then
to the red stables where the
Express had started. I thought
myself, “Now I am really s®'
-eing
things.” But also I had seen th'®®!
at Omaha when I had seen Genet ^
Nelson A. Miles with his gold sWOt
Once you have your foot
finnly on the spil, a little of ‘
soil sticks. I missed the old ^
I missed the people I knew. I hk
Pa and Ma more now than I ®'' j
had; I thought of many
had done that I wished I
I made resolves I’d do better w
I saw tliem again. Show them
more
appreciation. Tell them I liked tb®^^
which had never been easy for h®® j
do. No one in our neighborhood e
said he “loved” anybody. That W®^
mushy. You “liked” people and J
had “regard” for them. If yo®
you had “high regard” for •
that was just about the same as
engagement.
Ma! wrote twice a week.
sleeping well?^ Was I getting P‘® j
ty of good wholesome food? "
kind of bed did I have? Was I
a good boy? Then she would
the family news. The price of ®®® j
who was sick. Uncle Will Sewell o
come up in the cart j«5
roads were muddy. The
had hog cholera. Ma hoped ^
wouldn’t get down our way.
Ma’s letters—always ended the sa
way: “Your fathers sends regards-
One day, after I had been
ing about a month, I came to
desk and there, on my Oliver tyP
writer, was an envelope with
name written in heavy pencil
side was a sheet of copy paper tyP,^
written with this sentence on
will
„ I 1 inquired where its office was and [
nrv se in the city. St. started determinedly down the
wno uould steal j^j-eet I W'" Id ww Old Green Fve-
“As of Thursday, the Gazette
have to dispense with your s
ices
(Teasn *■’”-7’ ?.n Paffp 4)