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Pa^e Two THE HYDE COUNTY HERALD. SWAN QUARTER,. N. C, THURSDAY, MAY lO' ', ’"V;, w HE Hyde County Herald PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY AT SWAN QUARTER. NORTH CAROLINA, BY TIMES PRINTING CO., Inc. THOS, E. SPENCER Editor Catered as Second Class Matter at the Postoffice at Swan Quarter. N. C. Subscription Kates: One Year $2.; Six Months $1; Three Months 60c. Vol. VI Thursday, May 10, 1945 No. 36 ALICE IN THE COAL FIELDS Anyone Claiming that the United States has conscientious ly been fighting a total war, Should read the following editor ial from the New Vork Times; “Under the terms of the Smith-Gonnally War Labor Dis putes Act, the soft-coal miners of the country have just com pleted a ballot on the question, ‘Do you wish to permit an in terruption of war production in wartime as a result of this dispute?’ This ballot was conducted under government aus pices and by government machinery. The taxpayers of the country, in 'fat,. including the fathers and mothers, brothers and sisters of the men now in the armed forces, will have to pay a tax of $300,000 to defray the expense of taking it. And under the ballot more than 208,000 miners voted that they did indeed wish to interrupt war production if their new demands were not satisfactorily met. Only 25,000 of them \'oted against such an interruption. “As many of these miners are themselves the brothers or fathers of men in the service, of men whose very lives de pend upon the maximum American production and the unin terrupted flow of the stream of supplies, one can only won der at the perverted reasoning which made them vote by the cverw'helmdng ratio of eight to one in favor of willingness to wreck the whole war effort unless their new demands were met. This mystery only becomes deeper when we recall that the average weekly pay of these miners has already doubled since the outbreak of the war. “But even this mystery is as nothing to the mystery of the Congress which over the veto of the President passed so fan tastic an act, and which refuses to amend it even when its most fantastic consequences have become evident. Nothing in Alice in Wonderland 'surpasses the topsy-iturvy logic of a gov ernment at war drafting one group of men to face-death and then solemrily taking a vote among another group as to whe ther they wish to sabotage all, the efforts of the men at the OUR DEMOCRACY by Mat SPRING Spring brings new hopes, a freshening OF AMBITION AS NATURE STARTS ANEW ITS CYCLE OF PRODUCTION. IT IS THE SEASON OF NEW LIFE, OF NEW GROWTH-BEARING PROMISE OF FRUITION FOR THIS YEAR AND FOR THE YEARS TO COME. Traditionally, in America,spring is the season FOR home-making, FOR HOME-BUILDING, FOE CARRYING OUT FAMILY PLANS MADE BY THE FIRESIDE IN THE WINTER MONTHS- PLANS THAT THIS YEAR MAY HAVE TO BE DEFERRED AS WE CONCENTRATE ON THE BUSINESS OF WAR. WHILE WE HELP THE JOB AT HAND BY PUTTING OUR MONEY INTO WAR BONDS, LIFE INSURANCE AND SAVINGS ACCOUNTS,WE ARE LIKEWISE PREPARING FOR THE SPRINGS TO COME — IN STEP WITH THE SEASON OF6POWTH. WANCHESE NEWS Mr. and Mrs. Willis Daniels of front and to increase the risks to thCir lives that the men at weekend here the front are taking. , , • I Mrs. Ralph Tillett has return- “At least Alice ha dthe sense to rebel. ‘I can t stand this any from Norfolk where she visit- longer,’ sihe cried after her adventures through the looking ed relatives for a lew days, fiilass Hundreds of thousands of Americans have been showing Mr. and Mrs Victor Daniels and fntelligence and magnificent courage on the field battle i gjiMren^ have returne^^^ Why hasn’t there been enough intel'Mgen'ce and enough morai ^ -vveek here with relatives, courage among our representatives in Congress for them to. Mrs. Willie Etheridge spent speak out against this fantastic provision and to repeal it?” j ^o^'dayjn ;Norfolk^_^^ , ^ ® and children of Broad Creek Vil- THE BAIT SMELLS lage, Va., visited relatives here At 'a time when our government is scratching the bottom Tuesday. ill. Mrs Charlie Crank spent the weekend in Norfolk with rela tives. Royden Tillett ai the Coast M rs. Coolidge Basnight and children of Portsmouth, Va., are visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Will Barnett. Mr. and Mrs. Huges Tillett of Norfolk are visiting Mr. Tillett’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Dewey Til lett. Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Vanderslice and Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Tillett spent Sunday in Norfolk with Mr. and Mrs. Grady Owens. Mrs. Dewey Tillett spent Wed nesday in Norfolk. Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Johnson of the tax barrel to find funds to meet current obligations, visited relatives here this and children of Norfolk visited it is the height of folly to propose a hundred-million^ollar i Mrs. Johnson’s sister, Mrs. Billy public expenditure annually to establish a Rural Telephone j Mrs. Ina Barnett continues very Tillett Thursday. Administration, which after all the camouflage is removed, is just a device for putting the government into the telephone business, the same as into the electric power business. In a country that has more telephones than all the rest of the world, there is no excuse for the government spending taxpayers’ money in this manner. The bill which would authorize this $100,000,000 expendi ture and new government bureau with high salaried offi cials, ■would loan money to 'small telephone companies, for 1 3-4 per cent, lower than they ■could possibly get it any other way. Significantly, the small companies did not fall for the cheap money bait, for the United States Independent Telephone As sociation has gone on record in oipposition to the measure. Aside from their objection to government in business, the telephone com'panies oppose the Rural Telephone Adminis tration idea as contrary to the best interests of the United States, and of the farmer in getting telephone service. They feel that the logical expansion of the industry as private en terprise, will get more telephones to more people more quick ly, when material and manpower are available, than would any political agency. AVON PERSONALS (Too late for last week) Mrs. Bert Loveland of Tucker- ton, N. J., is visiting her mother, Mrs. Lula Austin. Oscar Gray, SSGG, who has re cently returned from duty in the Pacific has 'been visiting his par-' ents, Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Gray. Mrs. Mahlon Williams and chil dren, Jill and Mahlon, Jr., of Curtis Gray last week. Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Midgette and sons, Lance and Chester Mor gan, were recent visitors here. William Miller and sons, Bem- bra and Earl, visited relatives in Elizabeth City recently. Charlie Fields Meekins has re turned home after visiting rela tives in Norfolk. Mrs. Curtis Gray visited rela tives and friends in Norfolk re cently. Eliza'beth City have returned! home after visiting her parents, j Mr. and Mrs. Luther Hooper Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Gray. I and son, Luther, Jr., have 'been Columbus Baum, Jr., USN, of visiting their children, Mrs. Ed- Florida, nas just concluded a vis- | gar Gaskins and Mrs. Carl Gray it with his mother, Mrs. Beatrice in Norfolk. jjaum. I Mrs. Vernon Miller of SaRta Nix. and Mrs.' Fred Gtay and i Anna, Calif., arrived Saturday to children, Coilins and Belton, who visit her mother, Mrs. Elmitta READING &WRITING i 1 “ A jCx rmles fight to stab an enemy country’s heart. That means, generally, take the capital. But to take the capital you have to destroy their army. To destroy their army, you have first to take the roads behind them so that they can’t run away. To do that you must take high ground. To take high ground you must have an army. To have an army you must have men. To have men, you must have supplies. . . . Our present battles are for supplies. We don’t even fight for our lives. That would waste bullets. We just run for them. But we fight Japs for supplies.’’ That was the first lesson on guerrilla tactics given to Lieutenant Hifi David Richardson, of the United States Navy, who refused to surrender when the Jap anese came to the Philippines, and stayed on to fight. In "America Guerrilla in the Philippines” the journalist and novelist, Ira Wolfert, has -written for him the amazing and inspiring story of his adventures. American Guerrilla in the Philippines” is the Book-of-the-Month Club May Shortly after the Japanese occupation, some fifty guerrilla bands sprang Into existence, some of these unfortunately run by racketeers more interested in raiding the country side than in killing Japs. Richardson thought of himself as a technician rather than a fighting man; his main assignment was to set up radio communications with the world outside. But he also helped to punish collaborators, stamp out the law less elements, and to organize the work of the different bands. His abilities finally led to his being appointed liaison head be- IRA WOLFERT liLVC iheen living in Norfolk for i veral months, have moved back i...,nae. Mrs. Gibb Gray and son. Har- rj, were recent visitors in Noar- fbik. Wil'liaim E. Albright, Sr., of Bluefield, W. Va., has ibeen visit ing ihis son, Rev. 'WilUa'm E. Al bright, Jr. Rena Gray of Elizabeth City visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Gray recently. iMrs. Mhton WCeekins of New Jersey is visi'ting Mr- P. F. Mieekins. Nonma Faye Gray of Norsoik visited her parents, Mir. and Mrs, Scarborough. Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Gray and Ena Gray ■were recent visitors in Elizabeth City. Rev. Tichanchik was a recsent visitor in Mianteo. Arthur Gray, USCXl, visited his mother, Mrs. Dorcar Meekins, re cently. George Meekins visited his mother, (Mrs. Moody Meekins in Elizabeth City last week. {Mrs. Lizzie Gray and Yvonne Gray ■were recent visitors in Manteo. Mrs. Hulda 'Williams has re turned ‘home after visiting rela tives in Norfolk. * tween the whole Leyte guerrilla movement and MacArthur. There are some scenes of grim horror here; for example, the de scription of the tortures devised by the Japs for captured guerrillas; there are thrilling moments, as when an American submarine lands secretly to leave its marvelous supply of ammunition, food, cigarettes. There was also a little time—though not much—for romance. Richardson was out in a small boat with three of Ms Filipi^ fighters, when he met up with an American destroyer, part of the fleet invadinx Leyte. He efidn’t know llov fleet invading Leyte. He didn’t know Jfcw to answer their recognition signal, and the ship turned all its guns upon him. He shouted his nam^ but they were still suspicious. "I am an American guerrilla," he called, giving it the Spamsh ^onunciatioa. They thought he »id "gorilla.” “The guy is crazy,” commented one of the sailors. “He thinks he is Gargantua.” After they were finally recognized and taken aboard, Richardson introduced the three Filipinos as his soldiers. The boys were dressed in abaca shorts, all dirty and ragged, and wore no shoes. “Is this the army?” said a sailor. "Where’s their clothes,” One of them held up his trigger finger happily. "Sir,” he "here i* “7 uni|orip. onJy.’|_^ ““—"' Last Year’s Crops Worth 20 Billion for New High Cash receipts from farm market ings plus government payments — most accurate measure of the effect of the war on the American farmer’s pocketbook — totalled $20,000,000,000 last year, a figure never before at tained in the nation’s history, says the New York Trust company. Pre viously the $14,600,000,000 in 1919 held the record. But while the agricul tural Industry made more money last year than ever before and food production stood at a new peak for the eighth year in succession, the basic farm problem of surplus pro duction and declining prices has not yet been solved. Lend-lease shipments of farm prod ucts last year were $4,900,000,000 or 14 per cent of total American Lend-Lease aid. The over-all total of the country’s Lend-Lease shipments of agricultural products has amounted to 10 per cent of our total agricultural production since the be ginning of the program. Cash income per farm advanced from a low of $726 in 1932 to $3,577 in 1943 and farm wages Increased 150 per cent since war broke out in Europe. The four years 1940-1944 wit nessed the largest movement of peo ple from American farms ever re corded in a comparable period, with 1,500,000 men joining the armed forces and 3,500,000 to 5,500,000 civ ilians moving into cities from farm areas. Military food procurements are now running at the rate of 8,000,000 tons a year but will be cut In half when hostilities end in Europe, it is esimated, while our civilian re serves of 5,500,000 million tons in England will probably follow a simi lar contraction. Here’s Way to Handle Synthetic Rubber Tires Synthetic rubber tears more easily than natural rubber, so be very careful when you put a synthet ic tube in a tire. W. C. Krueger of Rutgers university, points out that the tube must be mounted in such a way that no tension whatsoever is exerted on the tube when inflated. There are certain tricks for doing this, and Krueger passes them on from a leading manufacturer. 1. Coat the inside of the bead, the outside of the bead, and the base halt of the tube and flap with a sudsy solution of a mild soap and water. 2. Before placing the tire on rim, inflate tube until it starts to round out. Then mount the tire on rim. 3. Be sure tire beads are on rim seat. Then inflate to recommended pressure so that beads and flat be come seated. 4. Deflate and reinflate to recom mended pressure. This makes it possible for tube or tube and flap combination to center itself in such a way that no tension is exerted and the tube is stretched evenly all around. Vitamins’ Place in Diet Vitamin A stimulates growth. It also promotes tooth and bone for mation; its lack contributes to night blindness. Vitamin B tones up the body. It promotes nerve develop ment, sharpens the appetite, and helps the body to make best use of food. Vitamin C helps resist infec tion and builds good teeth and bones. Vitamin G (Riboflavin) promotes growth and keeps eyes and skin healthy. Iron makes rich blood, helps prevent anemia, dullness and tiredness. Calcium builds bones, teeth and blood. Everyone needs it, especially growing children and pregnant mothers. Bulk in vegeta bles helps digestion and prevents constipation. Crisp, raw foods en courage chewing and stimulate flow of saliva. The “greens” which fur nish tliese benefits and which can be grown easily include cabbage, tur nips, kale, mustard, lettuce, spin ach, broccoli, chard and coUards. Gas Attack on Coyotes The coyote is a pretty smart ani mal and sometimes he’ll escape traps and poisons. But a new de vice, a chemical gun, is proving ef fective in north Texas where losses of poultry and young stock have caused farmers and stockmen to swear vengeance. "Humane coyote getter” is what the gadget is called. R. E. Callender, wildlife specialist fob the A. and M. college extension service, says it’s really getting the job done. The coy ote getter consists of a cylinder loaded with .38 cartridges which con tain cyanide gas. After the cylinder is driven into the ground the trig ger Is covered with rabbit skin and a scent bait attached. When Mr. Coyote investigates he trips the trig ger and Is shot in the mouth with the deadly poison, and that’s the finish of him. Eyes Made For Daytime Use Human eyes are'best adapted for daylight seeing. They were built by nature on an "early to bed, early to rise" basis. Many animals, as rats and owls, have eyes that are much better suited for nocturnal seeing than are human eyes. “If people arose at five o’clock in the morning and went to bed about eight o'clock at night, the prevalence of eye defects probably would be lessened,” comments the Insti tute. "It is well-known that farmers, who get out of bed with the crowing of the cock and who retire with the chickens, generally have fewer defects in vision than have their city cousins. afs— ROPES ’EM IN—STRINGS ’EM ALONG Using tactics of the West, a Marine technical sergeant from Philadelphia used a lasso to rope in three Japs on a Pacific island. Un armed except for a knife when he saw a Jap disappearing into a covered shell hole, the Leatherneck improvised a lasso from a piece of rope, twirled it into the dark hole and hauled out a prisoner on the first try. A sec ond Jap came out of the hole and surrendered. A third Jap in the hole played “dead" f ... ^ A .Cl .C.CCV* and stayed there the sergeant scooped him out and marched them to the compu 1 GOING DOWN . . . DOWN . . . DOWN An Army squad had just taken over the third floor of » house in Germany when the leader decided it was to high up. They barely moved down one floor when artillery lieatly ripped off the roof and third floor. Xn men moved down to the first floor. A barrage hit tne vacated second floor. They rushed to the basement in time to miss the third barrage—which burst into tne first floor. Resignedly, the GIs moved out altogether to » neighboring pillbox. Ten minutes later the walls of tn house collapsed. . A P INCIDENTAL INTELLIGENCE AND SUCH The Jap soldier receives 10 yen (about $2-3o) month, of which eight yeh go to his 1.6 yen goes to compulsory savings. The amounting to about 15 cents in our currency. _ keeps as “spending money’’ . . . The B-29 fort has more firepower than a regiment oi -lery had during the Civil War . . . According some researchers, our present Army insignia ^ back to the 13th century . . . Over five times _ rp . ' many Navy men have been killed in action tag the present war as in all previous wars of the United » combined . . . Contrary to a widely-held belief, the aver^^. Jap has no difficulty pronouncing the letter “r.” But he ca pronounce the letter “1” and hence the frequent use by such passwords as “Lallapalooza” and “Lilliputian” . . • u-gila standard airplane parachute when opened has an umu spread of 24 feet. SMOKE SCREEN FOR THE NAVY The Navy rc'cently procured for ships’ stores afloat and Us advanced bases 343 million packages of cigarettes, 128 mil lion cigars, 8H million packages of pipe tobacco, 110,000 packages of chewing tobacco, 53,000 packages of snuff, 1,440,- 000 pipes, 1,200,000 lighters and 300 mil- lion boxes of maitclies. TAKES OFF TO PREPARE FOR LANDIH^ Shortest airline in the world_is between two islands in a Pacific o ^ where a Marine Air Wing is 'og- tlny plane flies the one-mile trip, m tag an average of 20 flights jgjie carrying everything from buck privates to admirals. The P takes six minutes for a round trip while a. boat requires an and Nation’s School Children Ready To Assume Part in Seventh WASHINGTON, D. C.—The nation’s 30,000,000 school dren are again all set to assume as much responsibility ® . j. given them in helping to meet the $7,000,000,000 quota gp. sales of War Bonds to individuals in the Seventh War The demonstrated sales effective- ness of school children was an im portant factor in the determination of of the dates set for this new Drive— May 14th through June 30th. Insist ence on the part of many War Fi nance Chairmen throughout the country paid tribute to the vital sup port that pupils, teachers and school administrators have given previous Bond Drives. A recent survey reveals that more than 20 million people heard about the Sixth War Loan from school children. Over eleven million were directly asked to buy bonds by these boys and girls, a little less than a third of whom were solicited in no other way. The participation of school chil dren ranges from rallies at their schools to the taking over of actual house-to-house canvassing. In Penns Grove, a small New Jersey town, during the last Drive. E Bond sales were lagging behind. In desperation, the War Finance Committee turned to the students of the town’s two high schools and one grammar school. “If the adults won’t do it, it’s up to you,” the County Chairman told them. Accepting the challenge, within a week boys and girls had sold $25,000 worth of bonds, and be fore the close of the Drive, Penns Grove’s 6,485 citizens had topped their E Bond quota by $17,000. “Let’s chuck that worriment aboqt youth taking responsibility into the ash can,” said the local weekly news paper. In Michigan, public schools sold $23,750,560 worth of bonds in the Sixth War Loan, with Detroit schools contributing almost a third of this One school in figure. Detroit averaged sales of di* pupil; another, in a wealthi jjj trict, tallied up $349 for each 800 students. . sta?®^ Through special promotions by the schools of the small t Laconia, New Hampshire, , pupils manned booths, d®' Drive’s progress in downtow partment store windows ano vassed all the town’s to tricts, E Bond sales amoun „ $341,334 against a quota of In the state of WashiOgto"’jjj„g 80,000 school children ^ Counicr sold 27,763 E Bonds day—$1,182,281 worth. And in Kings County, New ^^[,poi elementary and secondary children tallied up $4,137,435 U j-jng the sale of 41,253 E Bonds 0“ the Sixth War Loan. .{e On Pearl Harbor Day in a t® Virginia county, school pupu ^pid vassed the neighborhood an $18,000 worth of Bonds: .gd f® sales for the last drive amoun $46.000—eight per cent of whi estimated to be “new” sales. Preparing fellow townspcoP ® solicitation by the pupils oi mount School, Hackensack, ^ j ’jpat principal w'rote: “You may t® ppji- we are placing an unusual resp bility on our children, unusual children, living m times. They are sincere m their be- Viiitco. Xiicj Oic . J, (JC' lief that the future of Lprf pends upon our continued supP„ jjjj every man in the line of batti^ pupils sold bonds worth rnore $1,000,000 in the Sixth War Loai To the People of this Community The 7th War Loan objective is four billipn dollars in Series E Bonds. At this time last year Americans had oversubscribed two war loan inaa quotas, each thi ree billion dollars in Series E War Bonds. It is obvi- ous your p ersonal shaire must be the great est of any of the war loans. And yet it may bf no higher than or even less than the combined amount you invested in bonds in the 4th and 5th War Loans. Why should you continue to put every dollar above the cost of the necessities of living into extra bonds? 1. Uppermost you owe an obligation to your fight ing men and women to back them to the limit as long as any enemy military strength re mains. 2. 'Think about Iwo Jima for a moment—sacrifice on the battlefields is still a way of life for your relatives and friends in uniform. 3. The self-interest mo tive is at a new high. (Civilian § oods are now scarcer than ever efore. Every doUar you spend for non-essentials works for high er prices. THE EDITOR EDITOR CLEM By Ralph Kemp It’s powerfnl nice to to clear with 'nongh Re- without bavin’ xnd ifln you folks buy Bonds we won’t ever h^Y® .{ ’ei» member there are 35 mill*® to beat.”
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