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THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. CU APRIL 30, 1943 FIR^ ■aid AILlJl iBlibsE by Roq.r B. Whitman ffpHI i Racer B. Whitman—WNU Fraturaa. Farmer Plots Crop Acreage Under New AAA Program; Agency to Assist Drive To Meet Record Wartime Production IMPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL S UNDAY I chool Lesson By HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST, D. D. Of Tha Moody Bible Institute of Chlcayo. (Relaeaad by Western Newspaper Union.) Tea asay net be aMe ta replaea wera as a as eare at wbat yea bare . . . aa wen aa yea peaatMy saa. This aelasaa by the bemeewa. er a Mead tells yea haw. DOUBLE-GLAZING Committeemen Will Carry Grievances to War Boards; Goal Is to Raise Yields Per Acre; All Problems Will Be Dealt With on Local Basis. Question: I intend to double-g'ars my steel casement windows instead of putting.on storm sash. Natural ly, extreme care would have to 1>« used to avoid soiling the glass. What do you think of the possibility of condensation between the glass, causing spots on the surface of ei ther pane? Answer: The possibility of con densation between the two sheets of glass will depend entirely on how well you seal the spaces between the two pieces of glass. Eventual ly, tbe inside surfaces of the glass will become soiled by infiltration, making it necessary to remove one pane of glass in each frame for a thorough cleaning. You can get a double glass that is factory sealed, with a dehydrated air space be tween. Ask your glass man about this. Time to Paint With the winter months behind, your home may be due for a coat of paint. Surface dirt should be brushed off with a wire brush, then wipe off with rag. Blisters should be scraped. Dark Woodwork Question: The woodwork in my house is oak, finished quite dark. I wish to paint it ivory, semi-gloss. How should I go about doing this? Answer: For the best job, remove the present finish with varnish re mover, which will soften the finish enough to be scraped off. Clean off all traces of the remover with ben zine—being very careful of fire. Sandpaper, wipe off dust and then refinish with two undercoats of ivory and the semi-gloss enamel. An al ternative method is to roughen the old finish by sandpapering, wipe off dust, apply a sealing coat of shel lac—thinned half-and-half with de natured alcohol—and then one un dercoat of ivory, to be followed by the final coat of enamel. Wood Floor in Basement Question: During the past two years a new wood floor has been laid twice in our basement, and each time the wood decayed. What , can be done to stop the floor from I warping and rotting within a year? Answer: I presume that it is a cement floor. For a good job, you could use the following method: First, mop on a coating of liquid tar or asphalt. Then put down a layer of heavy asphalt or tar-satu rated felt, overlapping the sheets half their width, with a mopping of liquid tar or asphalt between the laps. The wood flooring, in parquet like blocks, then is laid in an as phalt mastic cement. Most flooring contractors are familiar with this method. Faded Curtains Question: Grayish-tan crash win dow drapes were drawn most of the time, so that the folds exposed to the sun became faded, the under folds remaining as they were origi nally. What can I do to them to get a uniform color? Answer: Have the curtains dyed a slightly darker shade. If done by a reliable dyer, the color will be uniform. Cracked Door Panel Question: I have a cracked panel in a bedroom door that I should like to fill before giving the door a coat of flat white paint. How can I fill the crack? Answer: You can get a prepared crack filler, which is on sale at hardware and paint stores. Or you could try filling the crack with thick ened paint, scraped from the upper part of a half-used can. After dry ing, smooth with fine sandpaper. Pitted Laundry Tubs Question: Can you advise me about my two-part laundry tray in the basement? The bottom is pitted and very rough and it has been in this condition for a considerable length of time. Is there something I can put on it to ; make a smooth Job? Answer: If the tray is made of soapstone or slate, the bottom can be smoothed by rubbing with a block of carborundum stone. If the tray is made of china or enamek-d iron, nothing can be done to make it smooth. The 1943 farmer is on his honor! Like the boy taking an exam ination at school, it’s up to him and him alone. He’s strictly "on his own." Under the 1943 agricultural adjustment agency plan, the farmer for the first time has the full responsibility for measur ing his acreages on specific crops and reporting the results he gets. Formerly this was done by AAA employees, but the new scheme will conserve travel, cut down wear and tear on tires and cars, and decrease the use of gas and oil. Now it is up to the farmer to check on his own fields. He appears to be happy about this change in program admin istration, department of agricul ture reports show. While AAA committeemen — themselves farmers—will continue to give him every assistance, the re sponsibility for carrying out pro duction plans and doing his share in the national program rests with the individual opera tor. Spot checks will be made periodi cally to determine the status of com munity and county production, and farmers are being asked to keep records and lay out their crops so that reports can be made easily and quickly. Goals this year call for about 5 per cent more production than in 1942. Basis for the 1943 AAA pro gram to reach these goals is “local action.” It recognizes that the job of production adjustment—of shift ing crops to meet war needs and planning acreage to the best ad vantage—must be worked out and carried out on the individual farms. It can’t be done in Washington, say the committeemen. It must be done locally, to conform to the local situ ation. Instead of a national over-all goal “formula,” each state and county has been left free to adopt the means which seem best suited to the par ticular section concerned. Wide lat itude is given the committeemen in making goal assignments. They are not only allowed to determine such assignments on a "capacity of the farmer to produce” basis. They are expected to use such a yardstick. Capacity to produce varies accord ing to the character of the farm land, machinery and labor availa ble, and many other factors. Each region has its individual problems which must be taken into considera tion in determining what the specific area may reasonably do in a given period. AAA Committeeman Will Keep Government Informed The role of the AAA committee man will be that of an important go-between who keeps the govern ment informed on the farmer’s prog ress and problems, and the farmer informed on what the government Committeeman will hear grievance. expects of him and what it is doing to help him circumvent obstacles that present themselves. Adjustment, the process of help ing the farm operator to scale his crop production upward or down ward to fit into the national agricul tural picture, has always been one of the major activities of AAA. It helps farmers meet production problems by providing guidance and assistance in producing the kinds of crops that are needed in the re quired amounts, working in co-oper ation with other units of the depart ment of agriculture. Community farmer committeemen in 1942 totaled 89,000 regular elected committeemen and about 58,000 al- Kentucky Once Government plans to grow nearly half a million tons of hemp annually promise to restore to Kentucky the hemp industry for which the state was first distinguished. Kentucky’s blue grass section was adapted to hemp. Seed had come to the Colonies from Europe; Vir ginia supplied Kentucky’s early planters. In time practically all I hemp in the United States was grown from Kentucky seed. A generation temates. County committees totaled 3,029 with 9,087 members. The coun- -ty committeemen are responsible to the state offices, which in turn re port to the regional offices. Uncle Sam’s millions of farms depend upon the AA A committeemen to keep them informed of changing phases of the over-all national program, of the state’s particular part in the 1943 farm plan, and of the numerous de tails having to do with production goals and how they can be met. AAA county chairmen are also chairmen of the County Farm Transportation committees, which issue certificates of war necessity for mileage rationing, and the Coun ty Farm Machinery Rationing com mittees, which ration many types of farm equipment. In the matter of labor shortage, the community committees report localized needs to the county committee and war board chairman, the latter then car rying the problems on to the proper authorities. Chairmen of AAA state and coun ty committees head up the war boards which correlate the efforts of department of agriculture agencies to assist farmers in their war pro duction. Getting the right fields into the right kind of production and getting higher yields out of every acre through better farming practices is the basic theme of the committee man’s work in 1943. Committeeman Will Help Arrange Cooperative Action Among his activities is helping to arrange co-operative use of scarce machinery and co-operative trans portation programs. Many locali ties already have worked out suc cessful schemes for sharing trucks Mr. Farmer’* on hi* own. and trailers, as well as binders, combines, picking machines and other mechanical aids to planting and harvesting essential war crcps. Facilities for storage of crops are sometimes another item for him to handle. Assistance in the various loan and purchase programs instituted by the Food Distribution administration and Commodity Credit corporation is made available through the AAA committeeman. Increased produc tion of peanuts, soybeans, hemp (un der a special program), castor bean seed, Irish potatoes, and many oth er crops has been greatly aided by such programs. New applications for insurance on the 1943 cotton crop will be handled by the committee man, and he will in addition keep farmers informed of the availability of loans, insurance and payments under the program. Program objectives of AAA also vary in certain instances from past planning. Emphasis is falling still more heavily on the need for better yields per acre. To achieve this, more attention is being given to pro duction practices which immediate ly increase yields. All-out activity in the use of lime and phosphate, contour cultivation and terracing, for example, is being urged. Over three-fourths of 1943 production practice payment funds for the country as a whole will be used to promote such “quick” helps to better crops. In the East Central region, about 80 per cent of such payments are going for promotion of this immediate-yield program. Production practices, reports show, are feeling the “localizing” in fluence just as are other branches of the AAA program. Formerly the rates of payment for different prac tices were worked out on what might be termed a national basis. This year the various regions determine the soil building allowances for the farms in their particular areas, with relation to the particular problems involved. In the Southern region each state has its own basis for de termining soil building allowances. Reason for this localization is ob vious. Production practices may be more easily adapted to the individu al areas and the individual farms witfcjn thetn. In turn; agitable funds may be used to the best advantage and with the greatest efficiency. Acreage limitations have been re moved on a number of crops which previously had such limits. Except for short staple-cotton, tobacco and perhaps one or two other crops, farmers are urged ts exceed their goals in 1943. This is particularly Will aid cooperative plan*. true of dairy products and meat. Goals for most crops are mini- mums, calculated as the least pos sible amount which will keep the na tional efficiency at a reasonable lev el, and at the same time provide for the armed services and war plant workers and give assistance to America’s Allies. AAA committeemen and the farm ers, working hand in hand, are do ing their best to develop and carry through the most efficient and pro ductive individual farm programs they can. Problems of every sort staqd in their way—labor, machin ery, transportation and material shortages being paramount. By their close personal co-opera tion, however, they make possible an equally close relationship be tween the farmer and his govern ment. America’s farmers have a tre mendous production job ahead of them. Demands for food such as they are now attempting to fill have never before been made upon any nation. Last year they upped pro duction 12 per cent over ’41. Another 5 per cent increase is hoped for in ’43. Grandma Learns Blueprinting in Aircraft School In San Diego there’s one school in a great building left over from the San Diego exposition—another in a church—another even in a once- vacant storeroom. They’re crammed with students the like of which has never been seen before. Two grandmothers, one white haired, the other pink-cheeked and marcelled, bend together with com pass and rulers over adjoining desks. They are both learning to be me chanical draftsmen, to turn out their share of the ten acres of blueprints required to build a single flying bat tleship. “How on earth,” you ask the Con solidated Vultee teacher, “do you manage to guess that a grandmoth er can learn some engineering, when she decides she wants to help in the war?” “It’s not so difficult at that,” you are told. “First we look for evi dence of artistic talent. Perhaps a woman has done painting, or draw ing, or fine arts design. Perhaps she laid a career aside to bring up a family. If she can draw, and if she is intelligent, we can easily teach her mechanical draftsman ship. She is straight on her way into the engineering department.” In California, where the airframe industry of the nation centers, lit erally hundreds of thousands of peo ple have gone to school, and are to day at work doing precision jobs. Most of them were never before in a factory. In an age that has been called revolutionary, here we have the real revolution. The lure of wartime money is not enough to have done this. In San Diego, for instance. Consolidated early realized that the sort of work ers needed must be appealed to on the basis of their patriotic willing ness to serve. Was Center of U. S. ago, the state was still producing nearly a quarter million pounds of seed a year. Grown for its fiber, the hemp shoots up seven to ten feet, and 14 feet when cultivated for seed. Homespun cloth was woven from the fiber by wives and daughters of settlers. A later use of the fiber included the making of bagging, cot ton baling, rope and sailcloth. Early in the last century Kentucky had a dozen mills making hemp bagging; Hemp Industry 40 producing hemp rope for fast clip per ships and other merchantmen, and for the growing U. S. navy. Lexington was a market for hempen goods. Foreign competition cut domestic output. Abaca, so-called manila hemp, from a plant of the banana family, made better rope at less cost. Jute supplanted hemp for many uses. Also Kentucky planters found tobacco a more profitable crop to raise. 1 Lesson for May 2 Lanon *ub]*cte and Scriptura taste aa- (acted and ccpjrrichted by International Council o€ Hauateua Education; uaad by parmlaaion. CHRIST’S CHARGE TO PETER LESSON T5XT—John GOLDEN TEXT—Greater love hath no nun than this, that a man lay down his Ilia lor hla friend* John 19:11. Breakfast for a hungry fisherman —that is what our loving and thoughtful Lord had provided on the shore of Galilee. He wanted to talk to Peter, but He knew this was need ful first. There are some folk who think that following Christ is a dole ful matter, devoid of every pleasure. Jesus never taught any such thing. He attended weddings and dinners even in the homes of those despised by men. But remember that He al ways did it for their spiritual good, not merely for His own enjoyment; and that He always brought the gath ering up to His own spiritual level, rather than stooping to any worldly or wicked standards. Here we find Him with a glowing fire upon which fish is broiling, and with bread ready for these hungry men. It was just like Him thus to meet in most delightful and satis fying fellowship those who serve Him. Draw up to the fire, Christian friends who are standing afar off. You may be so timid that, like the disciples, you will not dare to call Him by. name (v. 12), but if you will come, you will find that the precious fellowship will soon warm your heart. With the meal over, Christ turned to Peter and in their conversation we find the latter required to I. Face Responsibility (w. 15-17). With kindly persistence our Lord brought Peter face to face with his responsibility of full-hearted devotion to Him. Before service can be ren dered there must be a right relation ship to the Lord. Three times Peter was asked to declare his love for Christ. Such a public confession was quite in place, before the man who had thrice de nied his Lord was restored to a place of leadership. The words “more than these” (v. 15) indicate that Jesus was asking of him a high measure of devotion. It is no more than He has a right to expect of us. The conversation after breakfast that morning was a very profitable one. One is reminded, by contrast, that few of our mealtime discussions are very useful. Many (perhaps most) after-dinner speeches and conversations yield little profit. Here is an occasion when such was not the case. One wonders whether we would not be wise to take the sug gestion and turn our thoughts and those of our dinner guests to spiritu al things. Surely it should be so among Christian friends and in a Christian home. II. Feeding Christ’s Flock (w. 15-17). We review the same verses to point out that an expression of love to Christ means nothing except as it manifests itself in service. Like Peter, we are to be diligent about feeding His flock, whether they be the young and inexperienced lambs, or the mature sheep of the fold. We tend to specialize. Even in soul-winning some give themselves to child evangelism while others reach only adults, and would hardly think of dealing with a child. True it is that we have varying gifts, and one does one type of work better than another. But let us avoid over specialization. Every needy soul is a challenge to us as we present the gospel. The word “feed” should be stressed. Here again the church has frequently failed. Men and women are won to a decision for Christ, and then forgotten. Sheep must be fed if they are to grow. A teaching ministry must accompany the evan gelistic effort. They belong together, and to neglect either is to fail, at least, in that measure. III. Follow Him to the End (w. 18-24). i Endlessly ingenious are the de vices of Satan. He who had sifted Peter like wheat (Luke 22:31) and had rejoiced in the weakness of his denial of Christ, now saw him step ping out into victorious living. Ho heard the prophecy of the martyr death of Peter. So he put into his heart a question. Why should he suffer? What about John? What was the Lord going to do for him? When our enemy cannot trip us up with temptation to personal sin, he resorts to the device of jealousy. Many promising Christian workers have become useless because they have taken their eyes off Jesus and put them on the persons and work of other Christians. Doing a work which was difficult and unnoticed but very important to God, they have felt the urge to quit because some one else seemed to have the easier task and receive more recognition. The answer of Jesus in verse 22 plainly states that it is not the place of one disciple to judge the course of life of another, nor to gauge his own devotion to Christ by another’s place or service. The word of Christ to us is the same as to Peter: “Follow me.” We have all we can do to live our own lives in a manner well-pleasing to our Lord. CLASSIFIED DEPARTMENT RAZOR BLADES KENT BLADES "^SlaJtevlSt*!! - * MISCELLANEOUS ■••rat Detective* auk* Mf m*n*y. Work in home town or travel. New training meth od. Rewards. NATIONAL DETECTIVB SERVICE. 3916 Lincoln. Strnthm. Okie. WANTED Waate4, i(M<t and rare antljyuf* tet «M1 WlaakMter . LaaterlU*. Kr old huittow* To buy for u*. M!.N3R C K-!N i(?S! 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