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The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1943-06-24
Nettle Knob News

Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Wilcox
visited their daughter, Regina, at
Boone, on Sunday.
Mrs. c. o. Yates has been sick
for some time. She is now taking
treatment at the Ashe hospital.
Earl Moretz returned to his
work in Pennsylvania, after Wis
iting here.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roby Walters Wis
tied Mr.. and Mrs. J. D. Baker, on
Sunday.
Miss Lorayne Yates spent the
week end at her home. She is
taking radio course at Charlotte.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1943-06-24
Cr'll'nlpler News

Mr.. and Mrs. J. S. Baker and
daughters, Miss Odessa Baker and
Mrs. Clay Harmon and children,
were visitors of Mr.. and Mrs.
French Baker, Sunday.
Mrs. Worth Miller is seriously
i'll at this writing.
Mrs. Cora Baker, who has been
real sick, is improving, we are
glad to say.
Mr.. Zeb Barton, of Abingdon,
Md, is visiting his parents, Mr..
and Mrs Frank Barton.
A large crowd attended the
funeral of Mr.. Guy Badger. The
services were held in Healing
Springs Baptist Church. Burial
followed in the church cemetery,
last Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. F. Shepherd
and daughters Elizabeth and Mrs.
Marvin Fawlkes, Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank Barton, Mr.. and Mrs. B. H.
Shepherd and daughter, Thelma,
and Mrs. Guy Neaves and boys,
Richard and James and Mr.. Jones
Phipps, were visitors of Mr.. and
Mrs. M. Gaultney and Mr.. and
Mrs. A. F. Rogers, Sunday after
noon.
A large crowd attended the
baptising at New River church.
Sunday.
Mr.. James Teaster visited Mr..
and Mrs. John Goings, Sunday.
Mr.. Troy Kelly, of Beckley,
w. Va, is visiting relatives in this
community.
Mr.. Upton Blevins left Monday
morning for employment.
Mrs. Jones McNeill and chill
dren, Vita Lee and Johnny, spent
the week end with her parents.
Mr.. and Mrs. Rufus Handy and
family were visiting friends and
relatives Saturday night and
Sunday.
MIR. and Mrs. Lee McNeill, of
Bina, were Sunday evening
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. l.. w.
Owens.
Miss Eve Blevins was right ill,
Sunday. She is improved at
present.
Mr.. Donald Mcmillan and Mr..
Lee Eller made a short visit to
Kannapolis, last week end.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1943-06-24
N. Carolina To
Get $l3,67l,O22
For Education

Washington - The Senate Edu-
cation and Labor Committee this
week reported favorabiy the fed
eral aid to education bill design
ed to appropriate a total of $780,
100000 to the 48 states of which
$13,671, O22 would go to North
Carolina.
Out of the $2OO,OOO,OOO fund, to
be allotted on the basis of aver
age of daily attendance, North
Carolina would receive 81, 500.
The States share of the remain
ing fund, of $100,000,00O allotted
according to financial need, would
be $6,491, 422.
The Tar Heel total of nearly
fourteen million constitutes al
most five per cent of the total ap-
preparation of $500, 100000, a very
substantial share in view of the
fact that every State in the coun-
try will receive aid if the bill
becomes law.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1943-06-24
GOVERNORS F~rTERESTED
IN PUBLIC WORKS PLAN

columbus. o. - Chief execu-
tives OF four states agreed that
government must supplement
private industry to provide post
war employment and contended
that broad authority should be
delegated to the states under any
Federal Public Works program.
Governors Herbert R. O'Conor
of Maryland, John w. Bricker of
Ohio, Leverett Saltonstall Of
Massachusetts, and J. Melville
Broughton of North Carolina par
: ticipated in a radio discussion
university of Chicago round
table) of The States and Post
war America"
The executives are in Column
bus for the 35th annual Cover
nors' Conference, which continued
through Wednesday.
Under wartime operation, rail-
road freight cars must travel
about Is per cent farther on the
average haul.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1943-06-24
N. C.. 4-H Girls Remodel Or
Patch Clothes For Victory
Elk it up Wear it out
Make it over Do without.

Ia IL OP = VSoA IL ONt
Make it over Do without.
That's what hundreds of thou
sands of All Clothing Club girls
throughout the nation are doing
to help win the war In short, the
girls are remodelirg or patching
up not only their own clothes,
but these of their fathers, mo-
theirs, sisters and brothers, so that
new cloth will be saved for our
boys in the armed forces.
And that they will do master
full job of 'Make and Mend for
Victory" is reflected in last
years records of roundly 100000
participants in the National All
Clothing Achievement Activity,
which disclosed that these rural
girls had remodeled or repaired
more than ~ million garments
and other articles!
Many of the current years par
Elephants in this activity will re-
c i've honor awards provided by
the Spool Cotton Company's Ed
ucationa1 Bureau for outstanding
recor::s Ct achievement. These
special recognitions, which are
based on county, state and ma
tional levels, include medals, Ma
tional All Congress trips, and
$500 college scholarships.
North Cardinals state winner
in this activity last year was Lau-
ra Louise Lucas, of Lucama, Will
son county.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1943-06-24
Timely Hints
BY RUTH CURRENT
State Home Demonstration Agent

You spend one-third of your
life in bed, so it is logical that
the choice ard care of mattress
should be important in the
housekeeping plan.
You can guarantee long life
for your mattresses by observing
a few simple rules. First and
foremost mattresses should be
turned frequently to help keep
their shape and resiliency. Many
mattresses have loops on the sides
to ease this operation. Brush
weekly with a whisk broom so
dust won't settle.
A "Dust Proof mattress cover
made of heavy muslin will pro-
tect it from dust and wear. You
can make these covers with an
envelope type closing so they
can easily be washed.
Uncle Sam tells us to waste
nothing, to buy only what we
need, to make what we have last,
and that means everything.
Our grandmothers used left
over Scraps, cloth-silk, cotton,
and woolens. Mothers, why not
plan a quilting party for your
neighbor friends? Or interest
your teen-age girl who is enroll
led in All Room Improvement in
making a quilt for her bed.
''The Presidents Wrath" !,
''Rare Old Tulip" "A Star that
Travelled" "Star and Crescent"
are all beautiful in design and
easy to make. We want to see
this art revived. There is no
better time than now when we
must spend more time at home.
Let's not squander time.
Who wants a pattern? Write
me at N. c. State College, Ra-
leigh.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1943-06-24
Obids News

Mr.. and Mrs. G. A. Miller,
daughter, Sallie and Mrs. Willie
Galloway and daughter, Ophelia,
visited Mr.. and Mrs. J. H. Col
ward, Sunday.
Mr.. Harrison Ashley, who has
been working in Pennsylvania for
a while, is visiting his family,
here.
Mrs. Jean McNeill, of West
Jefferson, visited Mr.. and Mrs.
R. S. McNeill last Thursday. Her
daughters, Betty, Mary and Ethel,
had been visiting here re-
turned home with her, Friday.
Mr.. Rudd Faw, of Lands, Wis
= relatives here, the past week
end.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1943-06-24
n. & w. PAYS S148,92O
in RELIEF FUNDS

Benefits amounting to Sl48,920
were paid to members of the
Norfolk and Western Employees
Relief Fund during the first quar-
ter of 1943, according to the quar-
terly report of the railways Re
lief and Pension Department.
Receipts of the fund during the
quarter, which ended on March
81, totalled $212,097, the report
showed. At the end of the quar-
ter the fund had a balance of $4,-
615,7O2.
Since establishment of the fund
in July, 1917, members and their
families have been paid in sick
ness, accident and death benefits
a total of $14,519,712. For the
establishment and operation of
the department, the entire ex-
pens of which is borne by the
railroad, the Norfolk and Western
has spent $3,178,744.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1943-06-24

About 40 percent of the calories
in the food we eat comes from
meat and livestock products.
Milk, dairy products, pork and
lard make up three-fourths of
this group.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1943-06-24

Iron and scrap collections in
Rhode Island average about 5000
tons a week, or more than nine
pounds per capita.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1943-06-24

At least 20 per cent more bak-
cry goods are being produced this
year with the same amount of
shortening as was used last year.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1943-06-24
Conservation
Farming News
BY ]. r. McLAURIN

Fulton Reeves, whose farm Is
located in Nathan's Creek COM
munity, planted a quilted area in
sedicea lespedeza four years ago.
This year, complete coverage and
protection has been obtained on
this area along with producing
growth sufficient to provide a
good cutting of hay by the first
of June. With good season,
Mr.. Reeves will get another good
cutting by frost.
Farm plans were prepared by
the New River Soil Conservation
District during the past week on
the farms of E. O. Woodie, Paul
Perkins, Wade Vannoy, c. c. AL
exander, S. V. Alexander and c.
A. Goodman.
Evening star., 1943-11-08
THIS AND THAT
BIZ Charles E. Trdce1UeH,

A young Fessenden street reader sug-
gests that swinging bird feeding sta
ton would keep the starlings away.
The idea that swinging station will
keep certain undesirable birds away is
mostly superstition.
Several years ago we were reading a
letter from correspondent suggesting
this treatment for English sparrows
Looking out into the yard we saw
our swinging feeder in the maple by the
garage fairly alive with sparroWs.
Keeping them and the starlings away,
if one desires this is not that easy.
Starlings and English sparrows are birds,
too, and quite at home on swinging OBJ
jects, such as tree limbs
y 4
This superstition arose from the plain
fact that sparroWs do not like to nest
in trees.
They prefer a solid ledge, although
at times some of them will make nests
in other locations.
From this habit of using a solid
support for the nest it was easy to infer
that they would not like swinging
feeding station.
1t does not work out that way, how
ever.
The sparroWs, being birds as well as
any, are quite at home in trees.
The desire for food is paramount. If
they must endure bit of tossing about,
they are willing to put up with it.
X X
Any one may prove this by erecting a
feeding station in tree.
Both sparroWs and starlings will come
to it.
SparroWs like almost any sort of food,
but starlings do not care so much for
seeds, but like grains better, and like
best of all any sort of breadstuff
The idea that starlings will not come
to swinging station also may have
arisen through observations made of
these birds eating on the ground be-
meath it.
In almost all swinging stations, much
food its tossed out. and scores Of birds
will eat on the ground, the natural
bird table
Starlings, being large, prefer the level
ground. Alter all, they are big, and
only one or two can find room on the
average feeding tray.
4
Our young correspondents suggestion
that spring be used to suspend the
station is good one.
This spring, giving sort Of bounce
when large bird drops down. might
tend to keep the starlings away at first.
But these are wise old birds
Not for long would a spring get re-
suits 1t must be kept in mind that while
starlings do not perch in trees as much
as some of the smaller species, they do
so whenever they choose
They never become seasick, either!
So little thing like spring while it
might deter them at first, would soon
be met as simply one of the problems
of life.
Evening star., 1943-11-08
The Right Man

War Mobilization Director James
F. Byrnes could have selected no
better man than Bernard M. Baruch
1oT the enormously important lob
OF directing the modification and
termination of war contracts.
The proper handling of this lob
may be expected to spell the differ
ence between chaos and an orderly
industrial transition from a war to
peacetime basis. This does not
mean that the war is over. nor that
the termination of contracts will be
begun on large scale tomorrow
But we have come to a point in the
flghting where there is need for con-
siderable contract revision to meet
changing military requirements, and
1t Is not a bit too early to begin
spade work on the comprehensive
program of contract termination
which will be needed when the war
ends.
Because this matter has already
been the subject of controversy be-
tween the War Department and the
Controller General, and because the
controversy could be expected to
grow in range and intensity without
firm and intelligent direction of the
termination procedure, it was essen
0al that this Job be turned over to
Evening star., 1943-11-08
Praises Terms
OF Moscow Agreement.

OF Moscow Agreement.
To the Editor Of The Star:
Text of the agreement arrived at at
the Moscow conference, as published last
Monday. disposes of so many heretofore
seemingly insoluble questions as to be
almost unbelievable
Russia in effect, pledges not to quit
the war for separate peace with Ger
many-as some had feared. Russia also
pledges full cooperation in and with
an organization for maintenance of fu-
ture world peace. Recognition is also
given to what seems to be an obvious
fact, that those who will win this war
(the fighting" Allies are, logically,
the ones to keep it won" and to main
tain the future peace.
Point (which is now the subject of
much diScuSSion-seems to be an in
dorsement of the League of Nations
plan, and, by employment of the term
sovereign equality" a remuneration of
empires.
Point contemplates an immediate
organization, for consultation purposes
among the United Nations, pending the
re-establishment of "law and ordered"
world
Point 6 answers the objection to the
future use of our boys for foreign police
duty. Point is concerned with the
future disarmament of postwar world.
Let's make the Moscow agreement
unanimous and the text of all Allied
aims and purposes in this war. Such
concrete avowal of common objectives"
has been needed. WILBUR H. CLOSE.
Evening star., 1943-11-08

will seek to determine whether such
demands are justified in the light of
the present structure of consumer
prices and whether that structure
has been described with reasonable
accuracy by agencies like the Bureau
of Labor Statistics The time al
lotted for this is sixty days, during
which the unions, it is assumed, will
hold their fire, thus letting the pres
ent stabilization program stand at
least until January.
The outlook is no more promising
than that. Both the CIO and AFL
are reported to be ready to demand
wage increases Of ten per cent, or if
not that, a compromise figure of six
or seven per cent. And if they
should get it, upward adjustments
would be required for all the Ma
tion's workers, adding perhaps as
much as five billion dollars of dan
gerouS money" to the annual in
come Of wage earners. The inf1a-
tionary threat implicit in this is too
obvious to need elaboration.
More than committee to study
living costs will be needed to head
off this danger; to meet it, Congress
and the administration together will
have to be much tougher and much
more farseeing in respect to it than
they have been up to now.
Evening star., 1943-11-08

The best way to keep starlings at
distance is to refrain from putting out
bread in any form.
This is the preferred food of the tribe
Just where they got the taste for it is
not known, since bread does not occur
in that state in nature.
These are large birds, and need plenty
OF calories, and bread will supply them.
Heat and energy are found in bread, as
we'll the starlings know. Though large,
they get cold very easily. Their claws,
in particular, are easily frozen.
This column had report one winter
of pair of starlings frozen to a metal
roof.
This does not often happen to birds.
Most Of them prefer tree roosting and
perching places, where they can get
their claws around a slender branch
People sometimes wonder why birds
do not fall in their sleep. This is be-
cause there is a special natural provision
to prevent it. The muscles of the bird
legs and feet are SO made that when the
creature relaxes in sleep, the muscles
concerned are frightened, pulling the
claws around the perch.
There is no chance Of the bird falling
off until 1t wakes up. It's very weight
keeps it on the perch. When the bird
awakens and straightens out It's legs, in
the universal stretching motion, it re-
leases the pull of the muscles and the
claws are open, ready for fight.
In the old-fashioned magic SETS"
designed for children, there usually was
long narrow cirle of fiber, into which
the victim was induced to put his hand
Then he was told to try to pull it off.
The harder he pulled, of course, the
tighter the "handcuff" clung, because
of the action of the fibers The principle
was great deal like that of the bird leg
and claw operation in perching while
asleep.
Considering how many starlings there
are in Washington every winter, there
is not much of a nuisance made by them
at bird feeding stations
1t is only now and then that band
will fly in at garden where bird feed
ing is being carried on.
They eat amicably enough with other
birds. if they can feed off the ground.
Usually they do not remain long If
they cannot find bread.
Persons who feed the birds only In
snowy weather, and then with bread
crumbs, must expect to have starlings
among their guests.
They should welcome them, and take
the opportunity to study them more
closely, because the starlings are wise,
interesting and capable birds Like
most wise and capable living things.
they naturally create some resentment
because they do things, and in world
such as this one, as presently consti-
tuted, any thing or any person who Is
wise and capable is going to make
enemies as well as friends. 1t Just
can't be helped.
Evening star., 1943-11-08
Reunion in Toxic

Ii there is anything in the saving
that imitation is the sincerest form
OF f1attery, the Moscow three-power
conference must have given the Axis
jolt, for it, too, is having a similar
conference in Toxic this month
under the auspices of the so-called
Japan Germany Italy Friendship
Society. The avoWed purpose is to
deliberate various problems of
military and political Importance to
strengthen the relations among the
Axis nations" Even Italian Fascist
representatives will show up, pos
slbly to pass the drinks and cigars
TO the good fellows at the table and
TO pick up any stray crumbs or butts
that may fall from it.
Unquestionably far-reaching tao
Tics will be discussed. Elaborate
blue prints will almost certainly be
of1ered-by Germany-for Japan to
invade Russia, with figures, fur
nlshed by Goebbels, to prove that
the Red Army would collapse in a
week and make the campaign a mere
picnic. Not to be outdone in DO
Hteness, the Japs, as the home team.
Will go to bat later in the inning
and offer the Nazis a scheme to
invade Britain, with figures to show
that the British Empire would then
fall like rotten plum and carry
the United States down with it.
Then the final decision will be
reached-that Confucius had the
right idea when he said that it is
bad business to bite off more than
you can chew.
Evening star., 1943-11-08
The Threat Grows

The Presidents new fve-man
committee to investigate living costs
is linked directly to organized la
bor's developing drive to crack the
Little Steel" formula and win wage
increases not now permitted by the
antl-lnf1ationary stabilization pro-
gram.
All available statistical studies
make 1t abundantly clear that living
costs have not advanced nearly so
last or so far as the income of union
lied workers, but some weeks ago a
labor victory committee complained
TO Mr.. Roosevelt that such studies
Speclflcally the Cost of Living Index
OF the Bureau of Labor Statistics
old not reflect true conditions and
that actually the workers were find
ing it more and more difficult to
cope with rising prices.
This complaint is one reason why
the new committee has been called
into existence. Another reason-the
more important of the two-is that
the C1O. aided and abetted by the
AFL and encouraged by the Gov
ernment's soft and self-contradic-
tory policy in the coal strike SETTLE
ment," has begun to press for wage
boosts greater than those allowed
by the Little Steel" formula, the
first demand being for an increase
of at least fifteen cents an hour for
the Nations steel workers. Presum-
ably the Presidents cost-of- living
inquiry, to be conducted by five
members Of the War Labor Board,
Evening star., 1943-11-08
Cities in Dancer

From the ST. John Telegraph journal.
Thinking of Rome, the mind naturally
turns to other cities in enemy hands.
How will Paris fare when the Germans
leave? She escaped the worst when
they entered, but when they vacate
their temper will be very different.
There is Marseilles, too, and many other
French towns; Brussels, Antwerp, Rot
terdam and Amsterdam also. When
they must withdraw from Denmark, will
the Germans spare Copenhagen? The
trouble is that we are dealing with peo-
pile in whom the spirit of the old VAN
dals, Goths and Huns is still alive. Rome
has known these in the past.
Evening star., 1943-11-08
Administration Responsibility
From the New York Times

FROM the New York Times
The charges made by Vice President
Wallace. in his speech at Dallas regard
ing transportation monopolies," with
particular reference to the railways, are
extraordinary, to say the least, since
they were made by an official of the
administration that has exercised con-
troll over transportation for the past 10
years. The Interstate Commerce Com
mission has control of every phase of
railroad operation that affects the public
in interstate commerce Its members
are appointed for seven-year terms and
all now have been appointed or reap
pointed by Mr.. Wallace's chief, the
President.
Evening star., 1943-11-08

should be added to and governed solely
by the absorbing nation. In the case of
Japan, all of it north of Hakodate
might we'll be trned over to Russia, the
islands south of Hakodate and the in
land sea might we'll be governed by the
United States and China for period
of 200 years and then be ceded to China,
all of China now being held by Japan
to be returned to China at once. With
these operations completed future trou-
bles on account of Germany and Japan
would be reduced to minimum. The
200 years specified is not too long. Dur
ing that time all those now living in
Germany and Japan would have died
and suitable educational and migration
provisions would make better citizens
of their descendants
T. WARREN ALLEN.
Evening star., 1943-11-08
Drastic Penalties Urged
For Japan and Germany.
To the Edit

To the Editor of The Star:
Lovers Of peace are hopeful that we
are fighting our last war. To work to-
ward this end, I believe consideration
might we'll be given to the effacement
of both Germany and Japan as inde-
pendent nations. Throughout the CEN
turies they have been troublemakers,
and to permit them to continue as in
dependent nations even under strict
supervision will be to invite future wars.
1t will be insufficient to remove the
present troublemakers within these
nations. Others will arise sooner or
later. The people themselves are bar
barians by nature and should be de-
prived for all time of any status which
will permit them to interfere with the
right progress of world civilization. In
the case of Germany, the surrounding
nations, as determined by the United
States, Great Britain and Russia, could
be expanded to absorb all of Germany.
In each case the section cut off would
be governed as province of the alb
sorblng nation, by q board composed
OF representatives from the United
States, Great Britain, Russia and the
absorbing nation for . period Of 400
years. after which the section cut of
Evening star., 1943-11-08
Separation Needed
the Pittsburgh (Kans) Sun

From the Pittsburgh (Kans.) Sun.
Washington divorce cases have in
creased tremendously and the courts
now are hearing an average of 80 cases
daily Many wives are being officially
separated from their husbands and hus-
bands from wives. But so far practically
no bureaucrats are being separated from
their Jobs,