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The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-02-20
Laurel Sp'gs News

Sergeant ]. Dean Mickey, OF
Fort Sill, Okla, is spending some
time here with his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. j. c. Moxley.
MIR. and Mrs. Lonnie Busic and
Jane Bledsoe, of Galax, were
guests of Mrs. Hazel H. Taylor,
Sunday afternoon.
Bryan Taylor, of Mocksville,
spent the week end here.
Miss Pauline McNein, OF
Greensboro, spent the week end
with her father, Mr.. w. r. Nc
Neill.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. G. Taylor,
Bryan and Hazel Lee Taylor visi-
ted Mr.. w. c. Blevins who has
been seriously i'll, at North
Wilkesboro, Sunday.
Mrs. Clete Choate and Miss AL
ice Taylor were dinner guests OF
Mrs. M. E.. Reeves Sunday.
Other guests during the after
noon were Miss Ivy Grace
Doughton, w. F. Doughton, Mr.
and Mrs. Eugene Shepherd and
family, Mr.. and Mrs. Lonnie Blu
sic and Jane Bledsoe, of Galax.
Miss Alice Taylor attended the
funeral of her uncle, Mr.. A. j
Taylor in Wilkes county, Monday
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-02-20
Save Children
Group Met Sat
Organization Is Giving Aid to
Demonstration Schools.
Reports Are Made.

The committee of the Save the
Children's Federation enjoyed
very interesting meeting at the
West Jefferson headquarters, Sat
urday afternoon.
Mr.. George Miller explained
the steps of making school a
demonstration school. Other teach
ers related interesting facts about
their demonstration school and
told how the SCI had given aid
to them. Mrs. Mary Sue White
explained the need Of first aid
material in school.
The SCI committee invites
those interested in the Save the
Children's Federation to be pre-
sent at the March meeting.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-02-20
McNeill's Under
New Management

It was announced this week
that .McNeill's store here had been
bought from E. A. McNeill's es-
tate by James McNeill and would
be operated by Robert Mcneil
and Howard Stanley. The store
has been operated for the past
several months by F. B. Jones.
Robert McNeill is a grandson
Ct the late E. A. Mcneil and is a
popular student Of the Jefferson
high school. Howard Stanley who
has been connected with Coward
Oil company here for some time
has a number of friends who will
be interested to know of his
change.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-02-20
Milk Industry Produces A
High Cash Income In N. C.,

-
position in the dairy industry is
wildly depicted in a new hand
book issued by the Milk Industry
Foundation. According to the
book, Milk Facts, $4,000 cows
valued at $16,170,000 produced
$12,630, 900 in cash farm milk
income for --orth Carolina far
mers in 1899. Production Of farm
milk in the state for the year to-
tailed 100000 quarts; cream
cry butter - 2,232,O0O pounds;
cheddar cheese - $4,000 pounds;
ice cream - 100000 gallons.
Practically all of this cheese is
produced in Ashe county.
The United States is one of the
ranking milk using nations in the
world with per capita consump-
ton of fluid milk totaling 153
quarts a year, photographs show.
Milk and its products comprise
over Is per cent Of the 1900
pounds of the principal foods
consumed each year by the aver
age American, the book says,
with As million quarts of milk
delivered daily to homes and
stores.
Pictorial charts and figures
show the Importance of the milk
industry to the country's eco
nomic picture and illustrate how
milk costs less in the U. S. in
minutes of labor. Diagramatic
charts illustrate how the annual
milk supply Of some 81 billion
quarts is utilized.
Fluid of fresh milk for cities
and villages providing the farm
er's highest cash return, ac-
counts for 1913 per cent of the
country's yearly production.
Creamery butter takes 31.6 per
cent, farm butter-9.2 per cent,
while III per cent of the milk
is used as fluid milk on farms
where produced. Hin making
cheese 6.3 per cent of the total
milk is used; ice cream-3.1 per
cent and canned milks-4.5 per
cent, according to charts.
A chart of the distributors
milk dollar shows 1921 per cent
going to dairy farmers for milk;
1924 per cent to delivery labor;
8.21 per cent to divery expense;
6.33 plant expense; 494 plant
labor; 2.78 administrative labor;
2.18 administrative expense; 1853
office labor; and profit 233 per
cent, representing only fraction
of a cent per quart of milk.
''The production and utiliza-
ton of milk have so increased in
this country" says the booklet,
"that today we are the greatest
of dairy nations. Milk, butter and
other dairy products annually
create an output valued at 3 IL
billion dollars.
Facts about the COWS and the
farmers that furnish the milk,
the distributors whose efficiency
has made wide usage possible and
the consumption Of this most
yearly perfect food should lead
to a clearer understanding of
milk economics.
Zone out of every fifteen fam
lilies in the u. S. is dependent on
milk for livelihood. Milk is the
largest single source of farm cash
income, larger than cattle, twice
cotton, three times wheat, five
times tobacco. There are Is mil
lion cows on three quarters OF
the nations Z million farms.
american enjoy the best milk
in the world and economical dis
tribution, meticulous sanitation,
pasteurization and other safe
guards have made our milk sup
DIV a world standard"
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-02-20
PIT. A.Observed
Founders Day 18th

| What important February date
| is celebrated by more American
people than any other? Is it Lin
coins birthday? Washington's? ST.
Valentines Day? Well, we have
mo way of checking the number
of people observing those time
honored dates, but we do know
that
/ Two million, five hundred
thousand parent-teacher associa-
ton members of this country cele-
brate February the seventeenth as
i their FOUNDERS DAY. It was
forty-four years ago, February
III, 1897, that Mrs. Alice McLel-
Ian Birney and Mrs. Phoebe Ap-
person Hearst called an organiza-
ton meeting of the National Con-
gress of Mothers, later to become
the National Congress of Parents
and Teachers. Every state and ter
ritory in the union was represen-
ted at that historic meeting in
Washington, D. c., at that time
the tome of both Mrs. Birney and
Hearst. Mrs. Birney was born in
Georgia; Mrs. Hearst was a ma
tive Missourian.
It was twenty-five years later
before the parent-teacher move
ment had gathered sufficient i'm
petus to warrant state organiza-
ton in North Carolina. The
dream of that small band of wo-
men, meeting in Charlotte in
1919, may be better visualized by
reading their objects as recorded
in the minutes Of the day.
tS~
THE objects shall be to raise
the standards of home life; to
give to young people opportuni-
ties to learn how to care for
children, so that when they as
sumo the duties of parenthood
they may have some conception
of the methods which will best
develop the physical, intellectual
and spiritual nature of the child;
to bring into closer relations the
home and the school that parents
and teachers may cooperate in
diligently in the education of
the child; to surround the child
hood of the whole world with that
wise, loving care in the impress
sionable years of life that will
develop good citizens; to use sys-
tematic and earnest effort to this
end through the formation of pa
rent-teacher associations in ev-
cry public school and elsewhere;
through the establishment of kim
dergartens; and through distribu-
ton of literature which will be
of practical use to parents in the
problems of home life; to secure
more adequate laws for the care
of dependent children, and to
carry the mother-love and mo-
ther-thought into all that con-
Germs childhood. The Congress be-
lieves that, with the aid of Divine
Power, these objects will be ac-
complished."
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-02-20
Raising Funds
For Hospital

Among other projects, the Wo-
mans club is now raising funds
for the Ashe county hospital, by
serving dinners to the Rotary
club.
The dinner was served to 81
persons for the father and son
group last week by Mrs. P. G..
Wright, Mrs. Levern johnson
and Mrs. Ed M. Anderson.
The club members serving to-
night are Mrs. w. B. Tugman,
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1941-07-10
KNOX:
And His Speech

Secretary of Navy Knox, in his
Boston address, stirred up an out
break on congress which threatened
to bring out an impeachment reso-
luton and found administration sup
porters repeatedly working under
cover to prevent this outcome.
In the address the navy secretary
limited that the time had come"
for the navy actively to sweep the
German menace from the seas, and
spoke of the Russo-German war, &C.
cupying Nazi attention. as a God
given opportunity" to insure the ar
rival of lease-lend aid to Britain.
Leading non-interventionists, head
ed by Senator Wheeler Of Montana.
leaped on this speech with all their
power, declaring that the navy Sec
rotary was stepping beyond his pow
ers and seeking to get President
Roosevelt to order a shooting war;
between the navy and the German
submarines and surface raiders.
The question, when Immediately
put to President Roosevelt brought
from him a denial that he thought
American participation was neces-
sary at this time. and holding out
continued hope that this country
could remain out of the war.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1941-07-10
PLANES:
4 SLoudo1Un?

Observers on the economic and
defense production fronts in this
country seemed skeptical Of the
OPM outlook that grand mass
production Of medium and heavy
bombers would be under way early
in 1912.
The OPM plan calls for the auto
makers to build airplanes in a num-
Der Of small sections, like wings,
fuselages and tails, etc.. and ship
these sections to large assembly
plants in Omaha. Kansas City and
Fort Worth and Tulsa, where they
will be put together in assembly,
line fashion.
That was the motor industry's
answer to %large-scale production Of
bombers.
Now those who feel that this OBJ
j~ective will not be reached until
some time in 1943 point out how the
aluminium shortage can possibly
play hob with the best laid plans.
They say that when a plane
weighs 10000 pounds, it actually
takes $4,000 pounds of ingot alumni
mum to do the job because of the
weight loss through scraps.
These scraps cannot be melted
down into airplane metal again
because Of the number of different
alloys required.
The observers who feel that OPM
is being too optimistic also point
out that the scrap losses under
the automotive plan of plane build
ing are likely to be more than in
regular plane factories, where the
workers have more experience and
will make fewer mistakes.
They also feel it is going to be
a huge problem for the big plane
manufacturers to operate in cities
as far distant from each other as
Baltimore and Omaha, for instance,
and still maintain a cohesive and
clever organization.
However, present plane produc-
ton, gloomy as this outlook might
be, took a step upward when North
American Aviation got back to its
scheduled 10 planes a day, and the
1,5O0 soldiers who had been sta
toned near the plant were sent
away to more distant points.
The wage structure finally decid-
ed upon turned out to be 60 cents
for beginners for the first three
months and then rs cents minimum
after that point, and on up to $l.5O
an hour for more skilled workers.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1941-07-10
Another Question

Tied into it all vas a question Of
fact, for Senator Wheeler had re-
ported rumors that an actual Incl.
dent or two Of the sinking of Ger
man ships of war by American ma
val vessels had been circulating.
To this, on the following day. Sec
rotary Knox fatty issued a sharp
denial. He said that no American
vessels on Atlantic patrols had en-
gagged in conveying, had become in
.volved in combat, had suffered any
loss Of life in their crews, or any
loss of equipment
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1941-07-10
Train Workers
For Defense Industry

One record of achievement in the
defense program has come out
over a hundred per cent better than
promised. and you hear very little
about it. Much of the credit goes
to a little, dynamic man. from out
where the tall corn grows.
He is John Studebaker of Iowa,
commissioner of education, and he
is the drive behind the federal pro-
gram of training for defense indus
tries.
Commissioner Studebaker prom
ised congress last October that the
vocational training groups of the ma
ton would produce 700, COO workers
trained for service at lathe or bench
by June 30, 1941. He now reports
that l.520,000 have actually been
trained. Moreover, although the
one-third more than the regular pro-
gram was undertaken, the cost of
the Washington end was only about
l per cent, and less money was used
for the entire project than con-
gress had originally appropriated
an achievement in these days!
The average cost of training, per
man hour. was 81 cents, and 81 per
cen Of the total amount Of money
spent in the training was spent in
the local community. That was part
Of the Studebaker idea-keeping the
training notwithstanding the To-
cal schools, shops. equipment and
teaching force-leaving the running
Of the program to labor, industry.
and the local school officials. This
not only proved efficient but it
served to bring labor and industry
together on a thousand advisory
committees which we're formed all
over the country. Labor and indus
try each furnished $500 members of
these committees. The rest were
made up Of consultants. Five hun.
dred systems provided the machin-
cry to carry out this task, and they
worked "a hours a day to do it.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1941-07-10
TAXES:
And Spending

The tax structure by which the
congress intends to raise additional
revenue to the tune of So, 500, 600, 900
during the coming fiscal year was
practically complete.
In addition to the huge amount
expected from the new income tax
structure. the congress Lawmakers
had agreed that business would have
to yield about 81. 1850, 600, 900 more
than the 3d. 900, 0OO, 900 it is now rails
ing.
Excise taxes were to be increased
by a 10 per cent tax on electric
fans. cooking appliances and SINH
lar articles: a 10 per cent tax on rub
Der products not including footwear
and auto tires or tubes, which are on
other tax schedules; 10 per cent on
electrical and metal signs; 10 per
cent on washing machines for COM
mercial laundries; one-sixth of a
cent a bottle on soft drinks "a cents
a easel; 10 per cent on retail furs:
another 10 on toilet preparations; a
"use' tax on vending machines that
pay off in tokens; IS for vending
machines which dispense articles;
10 per cent on optical instruments
other than eyeglasses; 10 per cent
on office and store machines.
Thus the boil-down Of the tax
structure was this:
Excise taxes like the above)
1857. 900. 900.
Income levies including excess
profits, So. 1853, 500. 900.
Estate and gift taxes S113, 700, 900.
Giving a total of close to the
$500, 900. 900 sought.
This enabled the public to get a
generalized sort of picture of what
is coming to the American way OF
life, at least from a tax standpoint
during the next tax year.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1941-07-10
QMMNGMH .


To improve the favor of stewed
prunes, cook a slice of lemon and
a cinnamon stick with them. A
speck of salt added to any fruit
sauce helps bring out the flavor.
Window screens may be washed
with a hose.
Cook linked sausages in a COW
cred frying pan over a low fire.
The fat will then cook out so slow
ly that the links will keep their
shape and all the flavor will re-
main in the sausages.
A strong solution of borax and
water boiled in the coffee pot oc-
casionally will keep it sweet.
When frying don't put in the
article to be fried until the fat is
still and a faint smoke is seen
rising from the pan.
Add about a third of a cup Of
cooked crisp bacon to the regu
lar muffin batter. This addition
makes a delicious muffin.
When polishing hardwood floors
be careful not to use too much
wax. Put on too thick, it is hard
to polish. Let the wax remain on
the floor for "a hours and it will
be much easier to polish then.
Because berries mold easily
they should not be washed. In
stead, they should be sprinkled in
a thin layer in a shallow pan and
stored in the refrigerator. They
may be washed before they are
served.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1941-07-10
SHOCK:
To British

Scarcely less shocking to the Brit
lsh than the arrival of Hess on
Scottish soil was the news that Gen.
Sir Archibald Wavell had been re-
lieved of his command in Africa and
the Middle East.
General Wavell had been Britain's
Number One hero, the only man
who had won for the British an i'm
portant victory and one which chal-
lenged the imagination.
Wavells men had driven through
Cyrenaica and had taken it away
from the Italians. capturing more
than 100, 900 prisoners on the way.
True, the Nazis had come across
the Mediterranean and had taken all
this territory away from him, in
GLIDING the trapping of a number
of thousand of the Wavell troops.
1t also was true that there had
been a good deal of criticism of
Wavell at this time. 1t also was
being remembered that he had been
given at least a part of the RESPONSE
bility for the disaster in Greece and
Crete.
Although the war ministry simply
recounted that Wavell had been
transferred to the high command in
India and hat his place had been
taken by Gen. Sir Claude Auchin.
leck, a Scotsman, the general feel
ing in Britain was that it was a
shocking demotion.
This notwithstanding the war min
istry let out the rumor that perhaps
Wavell was being given a more i'm
portant task. the preparation of the
defense of India should the Russian
resistance collapse and find the
Nazis blitzing in that direction.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1941-07-10
MILLIONS:
Get Deferment

Just as all youths who reached
their majority since last registra-
ton day walked to their local boards
to register, a 30-day deferment was
granted to all draftees over q years
old.
This vas frankly a measure to
keep them out Of the armed forces
until congress could pass an amend.
ment to the selective service act ex-
empting them.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1941-07-10
DykStrd Returns
To Wisconsin University

c. A. Dykstra, president Of the
University Of Wisconsin, has gone
back to his campus and his clois.
tered halls beside that shining lake
in the Middle West. He did a
historic job here in Washington, as
director of the Selective Service sys-
tenn and first head Of the Ma
tional Defense Mediation board, two
great jobs that required all, as Ste
venson put it, that a man has Of
7 fortitude and delicacy.
Mr.. Dykstra, as readers Of this
column know, did not get his knowl-
edge Of men and government solely
from books. He was a successful
city manager Of Cincinnati, he held
positions Of civic responsibility in
Cleveland, Chicago, and Los An
geles. But he was chosen to head
the draft because of his deep and
sympathetic understanding of Amer
lean youth. When he left Washing
ton, I asked Mr.. Dykstra for an ex-
elusive two-paragraph valedictory,
just for the Western Newspaper
Union readers. This is what he said
about his experience as head of
selective service:
MY experience with selective
service convinced me that the young
men Of America are neither soft nor
Indifferent. They can be counted
upon to give a good account Of them
selves. Moreover, public accept
nee Of selective service has proved
to be much more favorable than
vas anticipated"
Dykstra is an optimist, but not
one who can't see the hole as well
as the doughnut.
my experience on the Mediation
board" he told me. makes me
optimistic that labor and manage
ment are developing a better under
standing and a more cooperative
approach to a developing industrial
Jurisprudence. On the whole there
has been a minimum Of recalci-
trancy on both sides. The appoint
ment Of Davis is absolutely right"
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1941-07-10
b K EFS by Baukhage

When Mayor LaGuardia of New
FORK city forgot about the farmer
in drawing up the plans for civilian
defense. department Of agriculture
officials Immediately protested. As
a result the farmer will have a
chance with the rest of the civilians.
Just remember the city folks had
to get a COW for the Bronx zoo, just
to prove to Gothamites milk doesn't
come out of a tree like rubber.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1941-07-10

All the tall tales don't come out Of
Washington. 1t is reported that in
Montezuma. Ga, Mrs. Christine
Baldwin planted some Paul Neyron
roses last fall which bloomed
heartily in the early spring. A short
while later. according to the Hosch.
ton (Ga.) News. she found the rose
bushes were covered with bla OK
berries.
Can you beat that.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1941-07-10
Me Qnother
o A General Quis
The Questions

l.. What is a chuck-wi1' s-widowf
2. When it's II a. m. in Omaha,
what time il it in Galveston,
Texas?
3. Where are the Plains Of
Abraham?
4. What does a mace symbolic
in legislative houses7
5. How does the worlds record
for running and ice skating 100
yards compared
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1941-07-10
EZZZZZZZZZZZ.ZZZZ
Russian Help Welcomed
Despite Communist Bogy
Problem of Defeating Hitler Is Paramount;
Dykstra Returns to Wisconsin University;
Train 100000 Defense Workers.
BY BAUKHAGE
National Farm and Home Hom Commentator

obstruction Of the American de-
tense program to cease. Commu-
mist leaders here have already in
dictated that this is their new pro-
gram.
And then. it can be definitely
stated that the Communist situation
in this country has never been as
bad as certain publicity-seeking gen.
tlemen have painted it," the gov
eminent officials seated across the
desk concluded.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1941-07-10
The AnsUers

I. A bird. $50 called from it,
note.) I
2. II a. m.
3. Canada (Quebec).
4. Authority. A mace Is a staff
or mallet.
S. The record in both cases is
9.4-Identical to the split second.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1941-07-10
Day by Day

Let US be thankful that life
comes to US in little bits-one day
at a time with its duties. We can
at least accomplish that much
Colonel de Burgh,
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1941-07-10

Swift Growth
Report, that which no evil thing
of any kind is more swift, in
creases with travel and gains
strength by its progress.-Vergil.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1941-07-10
WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS
BY Edward c. Wayne
'ScorchedEarth and Guerrilla Fighting
Is Soviet Answer to German Thrust;
Revenue Bill for Defense Spending
Provides Many Additional New Taxes

EDITORS NoTE-when opinions are expressed in these columns. they
re those OIL In news analyst n rot necessarily Of this newspaper)
Released by Western Newspaper Union
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1941-07-10

This is the scene in the Brooklyn IN. " federal court 5 rs men,
bers Of the huge spy ring were arraigned by the government. Called
Of the most active. extensive and vicious" spy rings in the nations
history, rs men and 3 women were arrested throughout the country.
Most Of them we're Of German descent. They vel charged with
transmitting vital defense information to = foreign government. Three
men IN foreground r. lawyers.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1941-07-10
INDIGESTION

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Gas trapped In tho stomach or outlet may act lfks .
on the heart At the Arst sign Of distress
smart men and women depend on Bell-am Tablets %
nt ms free.. No laxative but made Of the fastest
acting medicines known for scid indigestion. II the
vTRST DOSE doesn't prove Bel.ans better. return
bottle 70 u and receive DOUBLE Money Bsck. 25e