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GREATER PRODUCTION OF
FOOD FOR 1941
BY MRS. C. E. GRUBB
County Food Preservation Project
Chairman.
I expect you are mighty tired of
all the war news you’ve been read
ing and listening to over your radio
these long winter evenings. It will
be a pleasure to get your mind on
other things—starting to plan your
work for the coming season; see
ing in your mind the fields and
garden green growing crops and
vegetables that will cover your farm
in a few months. We can all learn !
one important lesson from the
events overseas and that is: “The
Lesson of Adequate Preparedness.”
We cannot control the weather,
but we can do a number of things
to make possible a good crop and
garden. First of all, let us make, in
our minds, plans for a better gar
den and more vegetables in 1941
than we have ever had. Then work
toward that goal.
Some may ask, “When must I
start planting my garden?” We
have fifty-two weeks in the year,
and by planting something at least
forty weeks out of the fifty-two.
the garden will produce maximum
results. Too often planting is done
all at one time, causing a super
abundance of vegetables for a
month or two, and leaving only a
weed patch by mid-summer. Plant
ing should continue from late win
ter to following fall with a good
many plantings of the different
vegetables. The following table
shows approximately how many
plantings should be made during
the entire year of each vegetable:
Suggested
Vegetables Plantings
Per Year
Bush Snapbeans 6-10
Pole Snapbeans 2- 3
Bush Butterbeans 2- 3
Pole Butterbeans 2
Beets 3- 4
Cantaloupes 2
Roasting Ear Corn 6- 8
Cucumber .. 2- 3
Egg Plant 1- 2
Irish Potato 2
Lettuce 2- 3
Mustard .. 4- 6
Okra _ 2
Onions 2-3
English Peas - 2-4
Table Peas 3- 4
Pepper _ 2
Parsnips .. 2
Pumpkin .. 2
Kale 2- 3
Radish .. 6- 8
Salisfy 2
Spinach 2- 4
Squash 2- 4
Tomato _ 3- 4
Turnip .. 3- 4
This may seem a great many
plantings, but that is what it takes
to get the most from your garden.
Then you may can the surplus veg
etables that you have, so when win
ter days come and we cannot get
these vegetables fresh or growing
in our gardens, we can still have
the food we need containing the
right vitamins to keep us well and
strong. We may also have some veg
etables to sell, and in this way help
our government’s plan of “Live-At-
Home.” Also to supplement our
cash income by the sale of these
vegetables.
Some may that “I haven’t time to
make a garden or can.” Let ms ask
you one question. Which is cheap
er—to take a little time and grow
and can these vegetables, or to pay
out the majority of family income
for food.
A pantry of canned fruits, vege
tables, jellies, jams, etc., will in
sure you of a more nearly balanced
diet for all members of the family.
Inadequate diets were the cause of
the majority of men being turned
down in the former war.
We need to grow more vegetables
and to can more than we ever have,
so all housewives, please let us get
this in all our minds and all do our
best. Some may say, however, that
their garden will not grow things.
Is the garden soil really rich? It is
well supplied with all the needed
plant food elements, or it is over
supplied with nitrogen and defici
ent in phosphate and potash? Many
gardens are in this condition due
to the use of only barnyard and
poultry manure. These manures are
excellent for vegetables, but they
are not properly balanced and
highest yields of vegetables cannot
be produced without the proper
balance between the plant foods.
For this reason, at least, five to ten
pounds per 100 feet of row space of
a complete high-grade fertilizer,
such as 6-8-6, 6-8-8, or 4-8-8, should
be used in addition to heavy appli
cation of manure. Let me say here 1
that vegetables are not all we want
to raise and can. We want to raise
fruit and can all possible, drying
some such as apples, figs and
peaches. Can all kinds of berries ‘‘
and grapes. Make jelly, jams, pre- '
serves and pickles. We can have a 5
few fruit trees for shade trees if ,'
we have no place for an orchard i
and where we have old trees, prune] J
and treat them and you will gath- : *
er quite a bit of fruit from them. J 1
We can put out a few berry vines | (
around our garden fence.
Then we also need meat. Let us
raise our own meat, averagely *
speaking, one pig for each two
members in the family. This along r
with preserved fruits and vegeta-J'
! BIT OF GOOD NEWS
By HUBERT DODD
“Today shalt thou be with me in
paradise.” Luke 23:43.
This is the second word from
the Cross.
Dr. John Watson had preached a
{sermon on “The Shadow of the
Cross.” At the close of the service
the hymn, “When I Survey the
Wondrous Cross,” was sung. At
lunch Matthew Arnold referred to
the hymn which he considered to
! be the finest in the English lang
uage. Reference was also made to
the illustration which Dr. Watson
had used in his sermon, drawn from
an earthquake.
“In one village,” Dr. Watson had
said, “the huge crucifix above the
altar, with a part of the chancel,
remained unshaken amid the ruins,
and round the Cross the people
sheltered.”
“Yes,” remarked Arnold in speak
ing of this, “the Cross remains,
and in the straits of the soul makes
its ancient appeal.”
There were three crosses at the
crucifixion. Art pictures the cen
tra cross as the highest, to repre
sent, perhaps, how it towers o’er
the wrecks of time. Actually, they
were of the same height, doubtless.
The difference lay in the two spir
its represented by the three men
who were crucified.
First is the spirit of Jesus, sec
ond is the spirit of the thieves.
The spirit of Jesus was that of
vision; of the thieves, blindness. Os
Jesus, selfless devotion; of the
thieves, self-assertive violence. Os
Jesus, dying for the future; of the
thieves, the future non-existent.
Os Jesus, the saint; of the thieves,
the sinner. Os Jesus, the Cross as
the last stage in his self-committed
task of salvation; of the thieves,
the Cross as the last expiation of
their folly and their fault.
Thus did the Cross on which Je
sus died tower above the other two.
Thus does it tower still. It was the
Cross with power to save; it is the
Cross with power to save still. That
day it won its first victory in moral
realignment.
“Today shalt thou be with me in
Paradise,” said Jesus to one of the
thieves. This really means that
right then the thief had been won
to Jesus’ side. Goodness had gotten
wrongness on its side.
Gaius Glenn Atkins thinks this
may be the meaning of non-resis
tence. “It is the most effective form
resistence can take, since no at
tack can break it. It breaks even
the morale of the opposing forces
and creates revolutions which are
themselves redemptive behind the
opposing line. Saul sees light in the
face of Stephen, and is thereafter,
though he does not know it yet, on
Stephen’s side. The martyr wins
his executioner. At last, the op
posing forces crumple like a piece
of paper in a man’s hand and one
does not see, until the smoke and
dust have been blown away by the
winds of time, what has really hap
pened.”
It would be well for the follow
ers of Christ today to consider the
spirit of Jesus and His methods in
their efforts to win wrongness over
to the side of goodness.
U. S. CIVIL SERVICE
ASKS EXAMINATION
FOR CERAMIC WORKER
The United States Civil Service
commission has announced an ex
amination for principal ceramic
worker. A vacancy exists in this
position with the Bureau of Mines
at Norris, Tenn., and vacancies in
the same locality in this position
may be filled as a result of this
examination. The salary is $2,300 a
year, less a retirement deduction of
per cent. Applications must be
filed at the commission’s Washing
ton office not later than April 7,
1941.
Completion of a four-year ap
prenticeship as a potter, or equiva
lent experience, is required, as well
as two years of experience as a
journeyman or master potter. The
duties of the position involve the
beneficiation and testing of ceramic
raw materials.
Full information as to the re
quirements for this examination,
and application forms, may be ob
tained from the secretary of the
board of U. S. Civil Service exami
ners at the post office or custom
house in any city which has a post
office of the first or second class
in the states of Maryland, Virginia,
West Virginia, North and South
Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Ala
bama, Mississippi and Tennessee, or
from the United States Civil Serv
ice Commission, Washington, D. C.
bles will furnish you a year-round
supply of pork. Too, let us not for
get to plan for a beef. Instead of
selling our calves for $1.50 and
$2.50, we can feed them for a small
sum for a while and kill them and
can the meat—in this way having
beef. We can also raise our own
milk cows by keeping our little heif
ers, and as we all know, milk and
butter is needed in all homes.
A small floc’: of chickens is also j
essential to every family. These also i
help the family food supply, and
may be used to supplement the j
cash income to the farm family '
budget.
THE SUMMERVILLE NEWS: THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 1941
Know Your Timber
(By Emily Woodward.)
Georgia pine trees are being
drafted for service in national de
fense.
A recent contract awarded to a
group of Georgia lumbermen calls
for eighty million feet of lumber to
be used in the U. S. Army’s con
struction program.
EIGHTY MILLION FEET OF
LUMBER! Approximately three mil
lion Georgia trees, fourteen to six
teen inches in diameter, will be re
quired to fill this one order. The
money return for these trees will
gross almost a million and a half
dollars. A part of this money will
trickle into the pockets of laborers
who must be employed for cutting
the trees and converting them into
the finished product. From the
pockets of the laborers it will find
its way to the coffers of the mer
chants, grocers, doctors and dent
ists who sell commodities and ser
vices which Georgia laborers must*
buy.
In addition to this, these eighty
million feet of lumber must be
transported to the points of con
struction. Here the railroads and
truck lines and their employes will
share in an additional money re
turn from these products. There
will be additional distribution fol
lowing the same channels.
In view of such widespread ben
efits provided by the state’s forest
resources, is it not just plain com
mon sense for Georgians in all
walks of life to be interested in the
protection and development of
these resources?
It is because some Georgians in
the past have been actively inter
ested in forest protection and de
velopment, that such a large order
for lumber can be filled without se
riously depleting the state’s forest
larders. .
With such a drain on Georgia’s
pine products, it is comforting to
know that sixty-four million young
pines have been planted in the
state in the past three years, that
eighty thousand eroded acres are
now rehabilitated with a cover of
growing pines.
It is an unhappy fact, however,
that while Georgians on the one
hand are working to conserve and
increase the state’s forest acreage,
there yet remain in the state those
who persist in carrying on the work
of destruction.
The number one enemy of Geor
gia’s forests is FIRE. With the na
tional emergency existing, in which
forest products play so important
a part, it seems more essential than
ever to find some way to put an end
to useless forest fires.
PATIENCE NOT UNLIMITED
News reports tell of a threatened
strike by highly paid workers in a
big army cantonment, because the
contractor in the case has employ
ed some non-union workers—free
American citizens who have a right
to work.
If the “dollar-a-day” young men
who have been conscripted into the;
army threatened to walk out be-|
cause they didn’t agree with the j
ideas of a new bunch of conscripts
coming into camp, the crackdown j
would be swift and harsh.—lndus
trial News Bureau.
NO C.M.T.C. CAMPS THIS YEAR
Applications to attend Citizens’
Military Training camps in 1941
are still being received at headquar
ters Fourth Corps area.
These camps will NOT be held
during- the calendar year 1941. Ap
plication to attend these camps]
should not be made.
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By Gus Dyer
For 30 Years Professor of Econom
ics, Vanderbilt University, Nash
ville, Tenn.
DESTRUCTION OF WEALTH BY
TAXES
The rapidly increasing cost of
city, county, state and federal gov
ernments is destroying assessable
values in many cases and is entail
ing a severe hardship on everybody.
Very few governing or taxing
bodies ever try to reduce expendi
tures, but are always on the alert
to find new sources of revenue to
meet the increase in cost of govern
ment.
As the rate increases, property
values decline or are destroyed. As
values disappear, the rates of taxa
tion must be increased to make up
for the loss and we have a return
ing cycle of destroyed values and
increased tax rates which, if al
lowed to run uncontrolled, will de
stroy all the wealth of the country
and reduce the United States to
a land of poverty.
Wealth is measured by its pres
ent sales value and not by its use
fulness alone.
Business property provides a
great majority of real estate taxes,
and as two-thirds of the vast
wealth, of this nation is in real es
tate, it is easy to compute the bur
den placed upon business property
to support the various types of gov
ernment.
The power to tax is the power to
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GEORGIA. GASOLINE TAX
RECEIPTS SHOW BIG
GAIN SINCE 1935
“Gasoline tax revenue in Georgia
has made substantial gains during
the past five years, standing at
$22,802,364.66 in 1940 as compared
with $15,771,723 in 1935,” Neil W.
Printup, secretary, Georgia Petrol
eum Industries committee, said to
day.
“The additional millions of dol
lars in gasoline tax revenue are
enabling the state to speed up its
road building program, and to place
highway planning and financing on
a more effective basis,” said Mr.
Printup.
“Substantial gains in revenue
may be expected during the next
few years if the current business
upswing continues. The national
defense program will accelerate the
use of highways, thereby adding to
gasoline tax revenue. If, as the U.
S. secretary of labor has predicted,
six million jobs will be created in
1941 in this country, breaking the
back of unemployment, then sub
stantial numbers of families will be
able to elevate their standards of
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ural expansion of gasoline tax rev
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“Besides the contributions to
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highway users are paying millions
of dollars in federal gasoline taxes.
In this state the federal tax adds
25 per cent, to the average motor
vehicle owner’s gasoline tax. In 1940
the rate of the federal tax was in
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fense purposes. It is expected that
in 1941 highway users of this state
will pay $6,000,000 in gasoline taxes
to the federal government.
LAUNCH 4-H PROGRAM
EMPHASIZING USE OF
BEST DAIRY METHODS
Announcement was made today
of the continuation during 1941 of
the National 4-H Dairy Production
Demonstration program, which is
designed to promote a wider use of
approved dairy practices, especially
among rural youth. The program,
now presented for the fifth consec
utive year under the supervision of
the extension service, emphasizes
demonstrations on breeding, grow
ing, fitting, feeding and judging
dairy cattle, and the production of
high-grade milk and cream on
farms.
Reports from forty-three states
which conducted this activity last
year revealed that thousands of
demonstrations were given by 4-H
teams before adult and junior au
diences. disseminating information
essential to improvement of the
dairy industry.
County eliminations will deter
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finals. Medals are provided for first
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State winning teams will be given
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