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The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1940-09-12
County Agent Lists
Penalties On Farm
Full Cooperation
Of Holmes Formers
Is Sought

A $500 penalty in 1941 will be
deducted from the Soil Conservation
Payment of any cotton farm that
does not plant at least IS percent
OF the farms crop land acreage in
erosion resisting or soil conserving
crops. For example, a farm having
100 acres in cultivation, or crop
land, would need to plant rs acres
in these crops to avoid the $500
per acre penalty.
Using the above mentioned farm
again and supposing that it has a
800 pound lint average per acre
and can plant 80 acres of cotton,
the Soil Conservation Payment
would be approximately $135.OO,
whereas, the penalty for not plant
ing rs acres of erosion resisting
or soil conserving crops would be
$4,000, leaving a payment of ap-
proximately $1,000 for the producer.
Winter legumes planted this fall
and summer legumes planted next
spring will meet the rs per cent
requirement, provided, the plants are
a good stand and make sufficient
growth. Seeding pastures with re-
commended seed mixtures will also
count.
This change in the Triple A Pro-
gram for next year will doubtless
have a definite tendency to raise the
price of legume seed. Therefore, ev-
cry farmer should make every effort
to save as many seed as possible,
plenty for himself and some to sell.
Lespedeza Glover is unusually fine
this year and if cut for hay while
in the bloom stage should produce
a splendid seed crop from the Sec
ond growth. This seed crop should
be saved either for next years crop
on the farm or for the market.
If your lespedeza seed crop will
not justify the purchase of a COM
bine, a simple pan can be built or
purchased for this purpose.
You should not overlook the har-
vest of sufficient peas and beans
for next years planting.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1940-09-12
Holmes Farmers
Have Until Nov.
Both To Comply
Rate Of AAA Payments
Given In Detail
Are Set Herein

Farmers of Holmes county who
have not already carried out suf-
ficient soil-building practices to earn
the maximum soil-building payment
under the 1910 AAA farm program
have until November 80 to carry out
such practices, says County Agent
/. w. Carson.
Approved practices which farmers
can carry out this fall include plant
ing winter cover crops, building ter
races, seeding perennial or biennial
legumes, establishing pastures, plant
ing trees, applying phosphate and
lime on soil conserving legumes and
permanent pastures.
The county agent can give far
mers information on specifications
for various soil-building practices and
rates of payment. The payment for
application of 48 pounds of available
phosphate to or in connection with
the seeding of perennial or biennial
legumes, winter legumes, lespedeza,
crotolaria, or permanent pastures is
$1.50.
Materials which will supply this
amount Of phosphate are: 800 pounds
of 16 percent superphosphate, 240
pounds of 2 0percent superphosphate,
100 pounds of 48 percent triple sup
erphosphate. The payment for appli-
cation of 500 pounds of basic Stag is
also $3.50.
The rate of payment for applica-
ton of l ton of ground limestone is
$3.50. Materials equivalent to / ton
of ground limestone are: 1000 lbs
of burned limestone, 1,40O, pounds
of hydrated lime, 1000 pounds
ground oyster shells ,or 5000 pounds
of calcium s~ilicate Stag.
The rate of payment for seeding
winter legumes is $1.5O per acre.
Winter legumes must be seeded not
later than November Is at the fol-
lowing minimum rates per acre:
vetch, % pounds; Austrian winter
peas, So pounds; clean crimson clio
yer, 20 pounds; bur clover in the
bur, 10 bushels. The application
of at least 300 pounds per acre OF
16 per cent superphosphate, or its
equivalent, and at least 500 pounds
per acre of ground limestone, or it's
equivalent, to a minimum of % per-
cent of the acreage seeded to winter
legumes, on any particular farm is
required for full payment except in
designated counties in the delta,
brown loan, and prairie sections.
The rate Of payment for establish
ing pastures by seeding mixtures of
~clovers and grasses and planting sod
pieces of perennial grasses is $3.50
per acre.
Construction of standard terraces
for which proper outlets are estab-
lished will earn payments at the rate
of rs cents per 100 feet of linear
terrace.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1940-09-12
Services At Local
Methodist Church.

Church School at 9:45, Walter
Odom superintendent.
Worship Service at IL o'clock.
Prelude, "Calm Assurance"
Offertory, "Lord God Omnipo-
tent"
Anthem by the choir.
Sermon message by the pastor.
Epworth League at 6:45.
Evening worship at 1880.
Missionary Society meets Monday
afternoon at 8 o'clock.
Prayer meeting Wednesday even
ing at 1880.
Choir practice Friday evening al
1880.
The entire community is inviteS
to attend these services
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1940-09-12
1000 Vacancies Are
Open In Marines
$4,000 Authorized
By Congress In
Program Now

Jackson, Sept. 9-There are ap
proximately 1000 vacancies open tc
young men who desire to enlist in
the United States Marine Corps, &C
cording to an announcement by Ser
geant Edgar B. Stock, in charge oil
the recruiting station in the Pos
Office Bldg. Jackson. Miss.
Upon filling this quota, the Marine
Corps will have a maximum strength
of $4,000 men, as is authorized
by Congress-; and, as 2,814 young
men were enlisted during August
throughout the United States, it is
expected that recruiting activities
twill be sharply curailed late this
month.
Opportunities for travel and ad.
venture are enjoyed by all "Sea
Soldiers. Young men who aspire to
a military career and those who de-
sire to prepare themselves for better
civilian positions are especially in
vited to enquire regarding the free
educational facilities, both technical
and academic, which are available in
the Marine Corps.
Basic qualifications are: white, u.
S. citizen, single, between Is and
30 years of age, of sound health,
and with at least a grammar school
education. Full information will be
to interested people who
write or visit the u. S. Marine Corps
recruiting office, Post Office Bldg,
Jackson, Miss.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1940-09-12
Memphis Stors To PIoy
Goodman Sun. and Mon.

The biggest attraction Of the year
is in store for base ball fans on
Sunday and Monday, Sept. Ia and
18th, when the Memphis Stars will
invade the Goodman Black Devils
at Goodman. Memphis is coming to
Goodman with 68 victories.
White friends are cordially invited
to come out and see these two great
games. Games called each day at
$3.50.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1940-09-12
w. A. Mortin Rites
Held On Sunday

Funeral services for W. A. Mar
tin, who died at his home near Gen.
~terville on September 7, were held
Sunday, Sept. 8, at Mount Pleasant
Church, with the Harrell Funeral
Home in charge.
The Reverend William Miller was
the officiating minister.
Mr.. Martin is survived by his wife
Mrs. w. A. Martin, and two sons
Rufus J. and w. A.. Jr.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1940-09-12

Miss Cargill Howard spent the
week end in Jackson. While there
she attended a luncheon given for
the debutantes.
Master Charlie Pete Phillips spent
the week with his grandparents, Mr..
and Mrs. N. E. King.
Mrs. F. A. Dobbs of New Orleans
is spending the weekend with her
sister, Mrs. J. d. Howard.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1940-09-12

Miss Elizabeth Ramsey returned
to Starkville Friday to esume hei
teaching duties.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. E. Swinney of Kos.
ciusko spent Sunday with Mrs. J. M
Howard.
Mrs. Montague, Miss Van OsdeH
and Miss Henderson, teachers al
Holmes Junior College, were shoppers
in Durant Monday.
Mrs. C. S. Order and Miss Louise
Crider are visiting relatives in Ten
neSSee.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1940-09-12
AAA Requirements
On Soil Building
Pradites Given
rs Percent CropIonds
Must Have Soil
Conserving. Crops

1t is imperative that every Mis-
sissippi farmer should know about an
important provision of the new 1941
AAA farm program which requires
that at least % percent Of the crop
land on each farm shall be planted
to soil-conserving or e~rosion-resist-
ing crops.
Crops, which, when grown and
cared for in a workmanlike manner
on cropland, will count toward meet
ing this requirement are: biennial or
perennial legumes, perennial grasses,
lespedeza, crotolaria, cowpeas, sweet
clover, velvet beans, winter legumes,
soybeans from which seed is not
harvested by mechanical means, small
grains which are (1) used as a
nurse crop for legumes and the
nurse crop is cut green for hay, (2)
seeded in a mixture containing at
least 25 percent by weight of win
ter legume seed and harvested for
hay, 90 grazed and not harvested
for grain or hay, or (4) turned un-
der as a green manure crop.
Forest trees or cropland planted
under the 1910 or 1871 program
other than those planted in the fall
of 1941 will also count. Land on
which approved terraces are con-
structed under the 1941 program and
on which no crops other than one or
more of the erosion-resisting or soil
conserving crops listed above are
grown in 1941 will count toward
meeting this requirement.
Winter legumes to qualify under
this provision must be planted in
the fall of 1910. Hence, every eff
fort will be made to acquaint all
farmers with this new provision so
that they may plant an adequate
acreage in legumes and other qualify
ing crops during September, Octob-
err, and early November of this
year. ~
Advantages Of the new provision,
according to T. M. Patterson, admin
istrative officer in charge, AAA, in
clude the simplification of the pro-
gram and elimination Of a lot of
work in both the office and field.
Double cropping is also permitted in
qualifying under the rs percent soil
conserving, erosion-resisting pro-
For example, oats al be
grown on the land during the winter
and seeded to lespedeza in February
or March, and if the oats r cut
green for hay, the acreage will count
twice--first in oats and second in
lespedeza.
Failure to produce soil-conserving
or erosion-resisting crops equal to
ut least Is percent of the cropland
the farm will bring a penalty OF
IS per acre for each acre by which
the producer fails to reach the %
percent requirement, Patterson said.
For example, if a farm has 100 acres
of cropland, a total of rs acres must
be planted to soil-conserving or err
osion-resisting crops. If only Is acres
are planted, the producer will be
penalized SIS an acre on 10 acres,
or $50.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-09
Not Easily Scared

AS it is shaping up now, the policy of the
is plainly aimed at the intimidation of the
United States. The alliance among the three
country to keep hands off while the Axis
powers, including Japan, divided up Europe
and Asia among themselves. Since then a
reported warning from Tokyo that any Ameri.
can interference with Japan's expansionist
program in the Orient will mean war has been
coupled with a new tide of abuse from Rome
and Berlin.
If the diplomats of Japan and the Axis think
that this is going to scare the United States
into a deeper isolationism they have badly
miscalculated the toughness of the American
mind. They are right in believing this country
wants peace and is determined to keep it as
long as possible. They are dead wrong in
thinking that the policies of intimidation which
they have employed successfully against so
many European nations will work here. Ameri.
!
cans, whatever their doubts and Commissions
about this country's place in world politics.
do not scare easily when the pinch comes.
The net result of open or covert threats will
be an angry stiffening of the American spine.
Nothing could convince Americans more thor
oughly of the necessity for continued and in.
creasing aid for Britain than the open hostility
OF the aggressor powers. Nothing could make
it clearer on which side our vital interests lie.
At the same time this is not the moment for
loose talk or hasty or ill-considered action.
If we are now keenly aware of the realities OF
the foreign situation, we must also maintain
a clear awareness of the realities OF our own
position. A nation which is unprepared and
poorly armed has no business talking tough
Our policy must be to say little and arm with
all possible speed until we are able to defend
our vital interests from nations which respect
no argument but superior force.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-09
For The Boys In Camp

Dr Edwin F, Keever, retired Lutheran MIN
lister who retains his lifelong habit OF looking
ahead even in retirement, sees an opportunit!
for the good women of the community to d
something eminently helpful for the boys WHIT
left so recently for military training.
He thinks, with reason, that they could de
vote their spare time making warm clotnlnE
for the soldiers with as much spiritual benefit
for themselves as physical comfort for the
boys in camp.
He puts it this way:
After bidding farewell to the splendid
bows of our community who departed 10
enter the military camps for training this
winter it occurred to me that we might
profitably forget the filters which seems to
afflict a few citizens, and do some reflect
ing as to how we may add to the comfort
and health of the men during the coming
winter months.
The oldtimers will recall the severe
weather of the winter of 1878, and the
consequent sickness of the men who had
not been provided with uniforms adapted
to the stress of the season. Stoves-there
were none. Nearly all the soldiers in the
Greenville and Spartanburg camps were
totally unfit for service due to sickness.
Perhaps the government is planning to
issue winter clothing. I do not know, or
know who does know. If not, the dear
women should polish their knitting needles
and purchase yarn. Early in the winter
above alluded to I appeared before a ma
tional convention of the Women's Mission
Societies and solicited wooden socks,
sweaters and wristbands for the men IN
the camps. So prompt was the response
that three months before the Red Cross
could lend it's aid l was able to distribute
nearly 1000 wooden articles among the Of
ficers and men in Camp Wadsworth, S. c.
The work I am advocating, if the coun-
try, preoccupied with the herculean task
of furnishing other equipment, should de-
lay, would constitute an excellent project
for the Women's Mission and Parish Guilds
of the churches. 1t would also be an
eloquent and compelling mode of uttering
a concrete Christian prayer. And it is to
be hoped that no one would offer a con-
scientious objection. The time to think
and act is now, not wait until the men are
FRUSTRATED. In this way we may be able
to give Uncle Sam a timely lift and attune
our minds to the slogan of the w.. l.. I.
which freely translated, reads: BE ready
for anything, anytime, anywhere"
His recommendation ought to stir Whining
tcn's fine womanhood to this splendid enter
prise. Nothing we can say could add to his
clear statement.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-09
Editorial Comment
POLITICS AND DRAFT BOARDS
Durham. Herald

Some of the commentators, especially those
who specialize in connecting everything with
politics, have doped it out that governors Of
the several States have been put on the spot
politically by the draft regulations because
they have to select the personnel Of local
draft boards.
We would answer, not necessarily. Governors
are required to recommend the personnel Of
local boards, it is true, and miscues, of which
there'n be some, may pack potential political
trouble. But governors, as Governor Hoey is
doing, are privileged to enlist the counsel OF
certain folk in each community and thereby
recruit a sharer of the responsibility as well
as helpful advice.
Moreover, in this part of the country citizens,
we are sure, are sufficiently aware of the
seriousness of the job to insist that COM
petent persons are named to draft boards
and are sufficiently concerned to see to it
that the right men are named and proper
administrative policies pursued.
There is no pay attached to local board
membership, but lots of responsibility and
considerable work. Few persons invited to
serve are going to decline and plenty are
ready to shoulder the responsibility.
There should be no political flavor involved
and won't be if those in on the naming refuse
to tolerate it, as we believe they will do locally.
Local boards, it can not be too strongly
emphasized, can make or break administra-
ton Of the draft act. They must deal with
draftees direct on the most personal issue,
Individual liberty. And they must deal with
parents as well. Some will have to be certified
as eligible for the first call and some will
have to be granted deferment. Nobody is going
to complain much so long as there is no
excuse for charges of Partially. Nearly every
body is going to complain if there is an in
dication of favoritism. Everyone remotely &C
quainted with the rule in political affairs
knows that favoritism obtains in politics.
Hence, the politician knows better than any
one else that draft board membership and
favoritism clash. Certainly no politician in
his right mind is going to try to seek political
position or prestige by presuming to mix
politics with administration of the draft law.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-09
H0EY APPOINTS
LOCAL BOARDS
Governor Asks Many Other
Counties To Recon-
mend Draft Units

RALEIGH, Oct. 8.-LR-Gover-
O Hoey announced his selections
for draft boards for So more coun-
ties today and expressed the hope
that county committees in many
other counties would get their
recommendations to him prompt
ly."
This morning the governor had
received reports from 81 counties.
He asked county court clerks,
county election chairmen, county
school superintendent, and in
some instances mayors of princi-
pal cities, to act as committees to
recommend draft board members.
All of the boards recommended
by the governor must be formally
appointed by President Roosevelt.
The new boards named, with exa-
mining physicians a q appeal
agents, included:
New Hanover county: Board number
one, II. CASTOR Carney, Fred Poisson
II l.. HullluAu 1tOu6CIb, pAy olSldu,
DR.. Herbert A. Codington; agent, Will
liam B. Campbell. Board number two,
John A. Alexius, L. 7. Landen and c.
Heide Trask; physician, DR.. David R.
Murchison; agent, Marsden Bellamy.
Cumberland county: Board number
one, Paul Stewart, Thomas W. Rankin,
and Charles G. Rose, Sr.; physician,
DR.. Oscar L. McFayden; agent, John
A.. Oates. Board number two, Edwin
N. Brewer, Joseph s. Huske and Den
mis- G. Downing; physician, DR.. Junius
H: Mcleod; agent, Edward B. Hope.
Duplin county: Board number one,
William j. Middleton of Warsaw, Cres-
cent C. Ivey of Mt. Olive and Danile u.
Williams, Of Rose Hill; physician, DIR.
James N. Williams, of Warsaw; agent.
numbe one, J.. Aubrey Harrell of Wal
lace, John Rhodes of B%eaulaville and
John D.. Grady of Seven Springs; ply
stefan, DR.. Guy V. Gooding of Kenans-
Vile; agent, Norwood B.. Bonay of
kenansville.
Harnett county: Board number one,
Harvey p. Ferriss of Dunn, Edgar c..
Geddie of Erwin and James B. Will
liams of Coats; physician, DIR. Paul
e.. Parker OF Erwin; agent, Hector P.
Strickland of Dunn. Board number two.
Graham u. Monroe of Ellington, Char
lie M. Allen of Bum Level and Her
man 5. Holloway Of Varina: physician,
DIR. Arthur 7. Wyatt of Ellington;
Agent, Franklin T. Dupree of Angler
Onslow county: Board, W. D. Collins.
Maysville; Cleveland G. Mines, Holly
Ridge; S. William Shaw, Richards:
physician, DIR. J. P. Corbett, Swans,
boro; agent, John D. Warlick, Jackson
vile.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-09
Naval Reserve Unit

The proposal for a naval reserve unit, which
was placed before the county commissioners
by o. F. Cooper, retired lieutenant commander
of the navy, is to be presented to the city
commissioners today with a plea for joint city
county sponsorship. Individual members of the
county government are reported as favoring
the plan. The attitude of the city commission
ers is still to be learned. In the meantime,
it may be said that Wilmington and all south
eastern North Carolina would be the better
for a naval reserve unit, with a training ship
equipped to fit the young men of the area.
not otherwise engaged in the defense effort,
or emergency service.
Because of the position of Wilmington and
the great stretch of unprotected coastline be-
tween Norfolk and Charleston, any measure
for additional security would be in the public
interest. There is no reason that a reserve
naval unit could not perform as valuable even
as essential, service in emergency as the
home guard which is to stem from veteran
organizations during the national guards train
ing period.
to secure such a unit, but there is no reason
to suppose that they cannot be taken by Will
mington, which, in all matters pertaining to
defense, is anxious to increase its stride. As
a supplemental organization to function in
unison with the other defense projects Will
mington hopes to acquire, q naval reserve
unit is eminently desirable.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-09
Profiteering On Land

While the government has taken steps to
prevent. the creation of war millionaires by
levying stiff excess profits taxes, another
means of chiseling on the defense funds has
come to light. In only two months and on
only seven contracts, federal officials estimate
that half a million dollars in excess of legiti-
mate profits has gone into private Golfers on
the sale of land for industrial expansion.
These seven contracts involve an invest
ment of $11, 600, 900. 1t is easy to see where
we will get if $500, 900 Is scalped on every
ST.. 900, 900 invested in war-industry plants
requiring additional ground. With 81, 500, 600, 900
yet to be spent on production facilities for
munitions and warplanes, the drain. will be
tremendous if it continues at this rate.
There is one way to stop it and the govern.
ment may nave to resort to it If land owners
and spectators do not voluntarily mend their
ways. This way is to have a special board
Of appraisers fix the price to be paid. BY
this means it would be possible to halt the
profiteering.
1t is customary to employ this method in
acquiring land for highways, schools, etc,
when owners hold out for unreasonable profits.
Special rules could be created dispensing with
condemnation proceedings, which ordinarily
drag through the courts at a laggard pace.
And once it became known that the govern
ment would not submit to be bilked, it is
probable that owners would sell for a fair
price without hagglinR
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-09
Germans In Rumania

The movement of Nazi forces into Rumania
seems to have double significance. 1t may
indicate that Germany is bent IN preventing
sabotage of Rumania's oil resources. There
is no doubt that Hitler's war machine, whether
in the air or on the ground, is beginning to
feel the effects of Britain's continuous bomb
ing of continental petroleum stores, and as
Rumania is at present the chief source of
supply it is understandable that the fuehrer
it.
Or it may be that Hitler and Mussolini are
definitely alarmed at the possibility OF a
Russian attack in the Balkans. Russia's posi-
ton in the European embroglio remains an
enigma which neither Berlin nor Rome can do
more than guess at. Walter Winchell put it
patty in a radio broadcast the other night
when he remarked that the loudest noise at
the Bremen Pass was Russia's profound 81
lence.
Although both Berlin and Rome have de-
clared that Moscow is in perfect accord with
the Axis program it is believable that the
simultaneous announcement was intended for
home consumption and is in reality only wish
full thinking. German soldiers marching into
Rumania do not echo this view. IN the con.
trary, they give it the lie. .
But, whether it is for one of these reasons
or the other that Hitler has sent an armed
force into the troublesome little Balkan state
it is obvious that the Axis is spreading its
armed might mighty thin. 1t is questionable
if Germany and Italy, with all their man
power, can hope successfully to guard the
front door and the back door and all the
windows of their house Of cards much longer.