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Fulfill the Oath

DRESIDENT EISENHOWER in a mes sage to the Rov Scouts of America as they celebrate the -1:5 rd anniversary of the founding of their organization, urged each Scout to remember the oath. The Boy Scout oath, very simple, yet inclusive, is indeli bly' engraved in the memory of every true Boy Scout. On my honor I will do my best: To do m\ duty to God and my country. To obey the Scout law. To help other people at all times. Keep myself physically strong, mentally awake, and morally straight. I he oath is as appropriate for adults its for youngsters, is lion-controversial and would assure it citizen of the highest stand ing. More than 20.200.000 Americans have been members of the Boy Scout organiza tion since its establishment in 1010. The active membership today has reached an a 11 time high with :5,2r»(),Oi)(l boys enrolled. Tin' movement in this area of Virginia is probably at its highest in organization

and leadership. An executive has been as signed to this area and the work is being developed rapidly. In addition to the reg ular program for boys 11 Jo 18, a Cub Scout organization is attracting boys from 8 to 11 years old. Thus the principles of scout ing and its beneficial programs begin at the age of 8 years and continue through the adolescent period. Roy Scout Week this year places a ma jor emphasis on “'I he Scout Family. Vo be successful the interest of mothers, fathers, and adult leaders must be keen. Individual troops, or dens are sponsored by schools, churches, civic and fraternal groups, which maintain an interest in the work and are responsible for its conduct. This emphasis on family life and activity builds a strong er citizenship and a stronger America. 1 he Roy Scouts of today will be the leading citizens of tomorrow. Therefore, the move ment warrants the enthusiastic support of every good American citizen. It is typically American and it teaches the highest prin ciples of Americanism.

Pardon Information

ATTORNEY-GENERAL Howard Brown ell, Jr., recently announced that all par dons and commutations of sentences grant ed by President Hwiirht I). Eisenhower will be piven full publicity. The names of per sons roi ummendinjr pardops or commuta tions will also he made a matter of public record and it will be open to inspection by Congress, the press and others who have ;i legitimate interest, according to the At torney-General. The new policy is basically different from that followed by former President Truman, who granted twenty-six pardons and two commutations of sentence in the period between the deletion and the inau

juration of President Eisenhower. Of the twenty-six pardons, seven were granted without any recommendation for clemency from the Department of Justice’s Pardon Attorney, Daniel M. Lyons, Mr. Brownell pointed out. The Eisenhower policy' will •>.-* applaud ed by most Americans, who can see nothing objectionable in normal publicity on pard ons. While complete secrecy was, of course, impossible under any President, the new policy is appropriate and removes a cloak of secrecy which would be used as a cover for mixing politics with pardons, it any President were susceptible to such pres sure.

Looking Forward

pENERAL JAMES A VAN FLEET, who ^ recently retired as Commander ol the Eighth Army in Korea, has performed a creditable job for his country. I lie big. smiling American general told a crowd ol some 25.000 people, gathered in Seoul, Ko rea. to see him off. that he left his heart with them and would some day return. His main regret, he said, was that he could not sta\ and finish the job. Van Fleet has served his country, both in Greece and in Korea. He was one ot the Americans responsible lor the successful defense of Greece against the Communists, and came to Korea when the Communists

were preparing to hurl massive attacks against the U. N. line. In every such attack, the enemy was hurled back, with severe losses, by the forces under his command. We especially like one part of the Gen eral's remarks, as he addressed the crowd in Seoul, just before departing for the Unit ed States: "We live for our children. I wish for them greater peace and freedom than we older people have had or been able to provide for them." These words are to the point and, when one recalls that the General’s only son is missing in action in Korea, the force of his words is brought home.

Babson Discusses Business Cycles Babson Park. Pla.—I don’t be hove in a universal business cycle, r do believe in many business cycles. Under Newton's Law of Action and Reaction, business cycles are inevitable with human nature as it, is. MANY CYCLES When someone teds you he does not believe in the business cycle, it is because he pinned his faith on one business cycle and tried to make the same cycle ap ply to the stock maiket. interest lates. real estate, labor strikes, building, retailing, and manufac turing. Not only do all the above have their own cycles, but different in dustries may have different ey ries. For instance, wheat has a 9.6-vear cycle, iron and steel a C-year cycle and automobiles a i3-year cycle. MAIN CYCLES Although there may be A score of different cycles, all working at the same time. 90 per cent of the readers of this column are tied up with five main cycles. These are < 1» the 35-vear cycle, which ap plies to agriculture, weather, and insect pests. Every other 35 years the cycle is very severe. Hence, some talk about a ~ '-year cycle: and others about a 50-year cycle. : The cycle which affects us all 1 is <2' the approximate 9-10 year j cycle. Every other ten years this ' cycle is especially pronounced. Hence, some talk about 13 > t.h 20-year cycle. This particularly applies to real estate, new budd ing. wholesale prices and general business—although as above sta- j ted, different lines of business i vary as to when their special 20 year cycle starts and ends. Ed ward R. Dewey, who is perhaps j the best living authority on cycles.' shows that a 9-10 year cycle ap* I lilies to forestry, fish life, ozone .

.supply, atmospheric electricity and psychological changes in our desires and ambitions. STOCK CYCLES Two oilier common cycles are the 42-month cycle and the re i lated 6-year cycle. This last is the ' cycle used in the addenda of my autobiography recently published i by Harper & Brothers of New | York City. Here I show how $2000 J invested in 1901 in the Dow-Jones ! Stocks, approximately according to this cycle, could <as subse quently adjusted to include latest, data1 amount to over $1 000,000 ! today without borrowing a penny. T1 is is known as the Chapin Hos kins Cycle and appears in records of barometric pressuie. sun spots, j tree rings, certain commodity j prices and the sale of some 25 I leading L . S. corporations. ; Of course, all brokers ridic lie I this cycle theory. If too many of I their customers bought stocks ! only once in six years, they would starve to death. Even the Mutual Investment Funds, which last 'year did a business ol $4,000,000 - 000. cannot afford to go without dividends for three years while ' waiting for the market tfo drop. Besides t ieir sponsors could not s’ pport a sales force under such conditions. PATIENCE Operating under any cycle theory requires great self-control am. patience. It requires selling when the government, brokers! and magazines are bullish: like- ; wise, it requires buying when i (,v ryone is discouraged and sees \ no hope fo” stocks at any price. ; On the other hand, those who do ‘ so operate on ibis cycle theory j perform a great public service in > he.ping to level out business and j employment conditions Some conservative bankers do not believe in any cycle theory j because it misses one* in a while I when different cycles conflict. Furhermore. although they ad mit it might have worked under

a gold standard, it cannot be de pended upon—they claim—with a j planned economy and paper money. My answer to them is that khey can operate on an acturial basis the same as insurance com ] panies do. Stock losses can be i averaged the same as can fires, j accidents and deaths. ---

Double Check Farmville has its Jubilee and Cumberland gets the prize. My congratulations go to Mrs. Sam Traylor. The big day in a big town was attended by folks from all parts. Twenty cent sandwiches and good coffee will turn the tide of humanity any old time. It's getting hard to tell ifn the administration is getting out of controls or just loosing control of what control they have. They are still throwing at Truman . . they are going to make that guy popu lar ifn they keep on. Alls lacking now is for Margarette to marry nobility she will attend the coronation. There will be a race of Gover nor candidates held in Virginia. Two Byrdies and one Anti . and a Whitehead on a good will tour . . donations are now in order . . you can finance your own campaign or get one already financed. I'm not for anybody . . . out of politics this time. John Stan ley. of its "in the book" fame, is not running. Democrats are kinder scarse ... can hold their conventions in a telephone booth without getting crowded. Had a real nice visit from Mr. Billie Carson, Attorney at Law. Thanks for reading. Yours, J. Marvin Brown I

Poets and Poetry

Sometimes I read the poets who Write modern poetry; And I’ve about concluded that They do not write for me. They write a lot of highbrow verse » That critics say is grand; Hut it’s too deep for folks like me To like or understand. And when it comes to free verse stuff, I feel I must be dense; To me it seems a lot of tripe Which lacks both rhyme and sense. 1 once subscribed to “Poetry,” On which great poets dote; But found it full of free verse line Some guys of genius wrote. Though critics say this stuff is great And high class poetry. It is too far above my head, To have appeal for me. 1 much prefer the poets who Can write a simple lay, So folks like me can understand Just what they mean to say. 1 like to read these poets who Some lines to us impart, Which give to us the thoughts they have Within their mind and heart. •‘Such songs have power to quiet The restless pulse of care. And come like the benediction Which follows after prayer.” L. 1). Whitaker

Thanks . . . Farmville!

j Osaka. Japan | Editor i The Farmville Herald During my tour of duty with I the J5th Infantry Division in i Korea I was greatly pleased by 1 reports from Mrs. Huddell and ■ our children concerning their associations with people of Farm ville. They have written often of happy experiences in fellowship with the pastor and people of the Farmville Presbyterian Church. In sickness, too. the church has ministered to them without re serve

They have further written of many pleasant ana culturally valuable experiences in the Farin ville Public Schools. The teachers and administration of the schools have our sincere appreciation. I take this means of expressing my deepest appreciation to Farm ville Presbyterian Church and to the Farmville Public Schools for their splendid service in the best traditions of Christian brother hood and democratic education Sincerely Howard E Huddell Chaplain (Major) AUS

First In .1 Series Tooth Decay Destroys Body Tissue. | Called Most Widespread U. S. Disease

IF.ditor's Note — American Dental Association sponsored i the fifth annual National Ohil j dren's Dental Health Day. ' Monday, to focus public atten tion on the need for more ; dental health education and i care for children. The Farmville Herald, in eo-opeiation with ; F’armville dentists, presents the i first in a series of articles on j dental health for children. I I It doesn't command dramatic headlines, and you won't find it | on any list of chief cause of death ! but tooth decay is America's most vvidspread disease. It's a disease because it. destroys ! body tissue. The destruction of tissue in tooth decay can lead to intense I pain, u toothless mouth and facial ■ disfiguration : The toll of dental decay is ; staggering. The scope of the pro blem is seen in these figures: i More than 90 per rent of Ameri I cans have advanced tootli decay by nee 16. And the dental profes i sion believes that figure is i mounting steadily. ; At least 50 per cent of all two - year-old children have one or

more decayed teeth. There is a backlog of 285 mil lion cavities in the teeth of chil dren six to 12 years of age. and new cavities are developing at the rate of 33 million a year. At age 18, the average person has 14 decay sites involving seven teeth. Faced with these figures, dental authorities agree a losing battle is being waged against the ravag ing menace of tooth decay What, then, is the answer? The big chance for victory, authorities believe, lies in preven tion. Tomorrow's dental health, they say. lies in the hands of to day's parents. If parents will as sume the responsibility of seeing that children begin dental train ing at an early age, a large part of the problem will be solved. By an "early age," dental auth orities mean somewhere between the ages of two and three when the 20 primary or "baby" teeth have all erupted. The popular belief that pri mary teeth are unimportant "be cause they fall out anyway" is a costly misconception on the part of parents.

Gamma Globulin To Be Provided Areas Hit By Polio Epidemics This Summer

If Virginia should experience a polio epidemic this summer, gam ma Globulin will be available as a stop-gap, according to Mrs. Herschel L. Burrough, State Ad visor on Women's Activities for the National Foundation for In fantile Paralysis. "It should be remembered," said Mrs. Burrough. "that gamma glo bulin can only be used to reduce the crippling effects of polio. It is! not a preventive. The preventive is! the vaccine which has just been | discovered, but which is not yet: ready or available for widespread ! use. Many further tests must be 1 made before its use can be gen ' oral." In order to fill •the need until i such time as the vaccine can be !5erfected for general use, the Na- | tional Foundation has made ar rangements to purchase all com mercial gamma globulin available at an expense of five million dol-: lars of March of Dimes funds. This commercial gamma globulin will be given to a distributive pool, in all probability the National Re search Council, which will allocate the necessary amounts to the var ious states on a formula yet to be developed. This high-level type of distri bution will assure all families in Virginia that should another epi- j demic develop such as that last year at Wytheville, the Founda tion will have available a quan tity of material to reduce the re sulting paralysis as lias been evi denced by the studies made in the mid-west during the past two years. ] Mrs. Burrough pointed out. j however, that the supply of gam-1

ma globulin will not be sufficient1 this year for use in all cases of I ■ polio. "There is just not enough”. | she said. Therefore, in order to be j fair and derive the most benefit from the available supply, it can J only be used in areas that are < the hardest hit by the disease. j ■ SAVES CHILD FROM BEAR , Tulsa. Okla. — A 600 - pound j black bear, which escaped from his cage at a zoo, severely claw ed an 8-year-old gn i, while her unarmed father wrestled with the animal to save his daughter's life. The child. Priscilla Brown, was badly scratched about the face and head, but her father, the zoo keeper. escaped from the wres tling match unharmed.

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Business and Industry

prodiction record SET BV GATES COW 0 A registered Guernsey cow. diet io Holly Biook. ow ned by W 15 Bates Hons, of Rice, pro duced 8.439 pounds of milk and 460 pounds of butterfat. This is according to the official Herd Improvement Regisliy tecord re leased by The American Guernsey Cattle Club. "C'herio’ was a junior lour year-old and was milked 594 times while on test. "Cherio" is the daughter of the outstanding Guernsey sire. Mid view Majesty’s Independent, that has 33 daughters in the Perform ance Register of The American Guernsey Cattle Club. This record was supervised by tIre Virginia Polytechnic Institute. PUTNEY COMPANY SENDS III SKKY TO I)EL< O SCHOOL Gene Huskey, oil burner service and repairman for Putney Plumb ing and Heating company here, is attending a weeks course at the oil burner installation and service school of Dolco Appliance Divi sion of General Motors, at Rochester, N. Y Mr. Hulskey has been associ ated with the Putney company here for the past six years.

CO-OP .MEETING SET CEB. 12 AT CORK I MON I A regional meeting of Southern States Cooperative local Farm Home Advisory Committees will be held at Hotel William Frank in Fork Union, on February 12. to outline and plan work of the com mittees during the next year. Ap proximately 50 women are expect ed to attend the meeting. Mrs. Sarah P. Ellis. Richmond, Virginia. Director of Women's Programs for Southern States,

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will be in charge of die meeting. Among the special guests invited lo attend the meeting is Miss Katherine Oinohundro. Home Demonstration Ageni of Palmyra. Va. Farm Home Advisory Commit tees from the following com munities will attend: Chasset. Co lumbia, Kents Store. Stage Junc tion. Cartersville. Palmyra. Troy. Dillwyn, Scottsville. and Gooch land, Va.

Top Dressing- Small Grains With Nitrogen Advised At VPT Top-dressing small grains with nitrogen during February or the first half of March will help in crease the yield of grain, thereby easing current feed shortages in some parts of the State, says G. R. Epperson, associate agronomist at VPI. He says that many farmers are short of grain for livestock feed .because of the 1952 drouth. He warns, however, that nitro gen as a top-dressing should not be used on fields where small grain usually tends to lodge. On (fields of small grain that usually • need or will need additional nitro gen. the top-dressing can mean

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added profits. Generally, an application of two pounds of nitrogen can oe ex pected to increase the yield of small grain by one bushel. The recommended rate o: nitro vr. fo top-dressing small grains is li 40 pounds per acre lhis at sum: of nitrogen is available in loti to 250 pounds of nitrate of .soda. tso to 200 pounds of cal nitro. or : u to 120 pounds of ammonia of ni trate. Epperson emphasizes the im portance of top-dri ssm. some time- during February and not later than March 15. as material applied after that date cannot he expected to give best results He adds that farmers who are short on hay can stimulate some extra growth which may be grazed off in the early spring

V. S. AVI) Till: I \. The United States is still pro viding the largest coinbat man power contribution to llie United Nations Korean wat effort. al though South Korea has more men in uniform than all other United Nations participants com bined. While the exact strength is not known, an estimated -100,000 South Koreans are in uniform.-. while about 300.000 Americans an lighting or direct enraged in support of the fighting New Hampshire and Indiana are the only states which have no mottos.

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