THE JOHNSTONIAN—SUN. SELMA. N. C.
THURSDAY, SEPT. 25, 1930.
Some Facts You
Should Know Now
stabilization Corporation and not the matter. Let the mayor of Kings | his absence Lieutenant Governor Be-
Ealeigh, Sept. 11.—“We are im
mensely interested in every move
ment looking to the improvement of
prices for the tobacco farmers, but
we Tj.-ould not have agricultural lead
ers'or bankers or supply merchants
and the public generally tp overlook
the fact that cotton prices are about
the lowest since 1925 and that con
ditions are just as deplorable in a
way for the cotton producers as
they are for the tobacco farmers,”
remarked U. B. Blalock, General
Manager of the Cotton Growers As
sociation, in discussing the present
situation as it affects both tobacco
and cotton farmers. Our cotton
farmers are more fortunate, he said,
in that, through their state coopera
tive association, they are in a posi
tion to receive aid from the Federal
colonels to last a generation.—Union
Republican
said the North Carolina As- Mountain introduce the governor and thea appointed enough^ Kentucky
sociation Manager. “Neither our As
sociation nor our members owe- any
one a penny on this cotton,” he de
clared, “and we will not be called
upon to absorb any loss. The cot
ton farmers can be assured that this
year’s cotton will be handled inde-
he in turn introduce the President.
Partisanship should be eliminated in
this instance and while we nealibe
that if the Democrats had anything ,Geo. M. Pritchard
to do with it, a Republican would not' —- -
he given a chance to- even sit on the
platform, we would be magnanimous
North America as far as 37 or 38 largely on the more tender parts
degrees north latitude and in Europe such asi the tops and leaves, this
as far north as 46 degrees north lat- I will not be a detrimental' factor.
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pendently of any previous year’s and let Gardner do the honors on
crop. In fact, we will have between! this occasion but we must object to
$175,000 and $200,000 yet to distrib- j allow-ing J. W. Bailey, the Raskobite
Coming to Smithfield
Monday, Sept. 29th
ute to our members on the 1929
crop, this being the amount due for
better grades and staples over the
16 cents advance. The above really
means so much velvet to North Car
olina cotton producers for growing
better grade and staple.”
candidate for the Senate, have any
part in the program unless his op
ponent, Representative Pritchard is
also given a place.—Union Republi
can.
Will Speak in County Court House
at 7 ;30 O’Clock P. M.,' and the
Public is Cordially Invited to Hear
Him.
Might Pull the Trick
One C. W. Haw'kes, of Concord,
writing in the Charlotte Observer
^on to receive am irom rne reoera.^^ ^ Republicans
Farm Board in holding their cotton
off such an unwilling market.
“We have written to all of the
bankers and the supply merchants in
the North Carolina cotton belt, ad
vising them of our ability to ad
vance to the grower approximately
90 per cent of the value of cotton
at a very low rate of interest, the
present rate being only 4 per cent.
Our present net advance is nine
cents per pound for middling 7-8
inch cotton.”
Mr. Blalock said that Association
officials are very much gratified at
the responses which are being re
ceived from these bankers and mer
chants to the appeal to cooperate
with the farmers and allow them to
poof their cotton. Quite a number
of these bankers and supply mer-
dtants have signed membership con
tacts themselves and will help to
tswell deliveries to the Cooperative
Association. One prominent banker
who is a large producer of cotton
has indicated that he will deliver
more than a thousand bales, said
Me.. Bfalock.
There still seems to be a question
in the minds of some people as to
what became of the 16 cent cotton
■which the Cooperative Association
handled last season. Mr. Blalock an
swered this question with the state
ment that all of this cotton has- been
'turned over to the Cotton Stabiliza-
'tion Corporation which has been set
Tip by the Federal Farm Board. It
has been announced that this cotton
•p;Al not be thrown upon the market
.until there is a demand for it. If,
however, this cotton of last year s
crop should be marketed at a loss,
will be the loss of the Cotton
were going to bring into North Car
olina during the coming campaign
some of their best speakers is anx
ious to know_ if this will include
Oscar DePriest, the colored Con
gressman from Chicago. Will say
to Mr. Hawkes if he desires, we will
try to arrange a debate in Concord
between DePriest and Fredrick Q.
Morton, the Tammany negro Demo
cratic civil service commossioner who
has a white woman stenographer.
And if Mr. Hawkes will try to get
the 400 Raleigh negroes which the
Bailey Democrats registered in the
primary, to come to_ Concord and
give Morton the glad hand. And if
Mr. Hawkes objects to Fredrick Q.
Morton, we might go out to St. Lou
is and pursuade Joseph L. Mc-
Lemore, negro, whom the St. Louis
Democrats nominated in 1928 to op
pose I. C. Dyer, white Republican,
to come and speak for Mr. Hawkes
and other Raskobites.—Union Repub
lican, Aug. 21.
They Like to Hold
On to The Last
It is passing strange that when
one of these Democratic office hold
ers is fired from a job to what
lengths they will go to hold on to
the public crib. The Republican
board of commissioners of Catawba
county, decided to do away with the
services of Dr. George Shipp, coun
ty health officer, who has been on
job for years, but Shipp, hungry
Democratic officeholder that he is,
disputed the authority of the com
missioners and apjiealed to Attorney
General Brumniitt to keep him in
and Brummitt tells the commissioners
they have no right to fire Shipp. If
the commissioners have no right to
fire a man whom they are paying,
then they have no right to pay this
gentleman and we trust they will
withold his salary. Brummitt can
alway.s be depended upon to render
a favorable opinion where a Demo
cratic officeholder is concerned. If
we were in Shipp’s place we would
be ashamed to try to hold a place
where we were not wanted.
The Governor’s Job
There seems to be some confusion
as to whom should be chosen to
introduce President Hoover when he
comes in October to the Kings Moun
tain Battlefield celebration. 'While
we would like very much to see this
honor accorded to our own Repre
sentative, Charles A. Jonas., as he
had more to do with bringing the
Chief Executive to the celebration
than anyone else, we realize that the
governor is the proper person to
make the intorduction and there
should not be any question about
Hon. Geo. M. Pritchard, Republi
can candidate for the United States
Senate, who is opposing Josiah
William Bailey, the Democratic nomi
nee, will speak in the Court House
in Smithfield, on Monday night at
7:30 o’clock, September the 29th,
1930. Mr. Pritchard is desirous
that the people go out to hear him,
regardless of party affiliations, and
he is especially anxious to meet the
ladies of Johnston County. So let
husbands carry their wives, and the
wives should not let their husbands
overlook the time, date and place
and be there. Wbeth(|: married, sin
gle, young or old,
gret hearing him.
titude in the Crimea; and although
cottons are perennial by nature, iihey
have been adapted to annual growth
in climates prohibiting winter sur
vival.
, Within or just outside of the
tropical zone many wild cottons of
perennial habit are found in many
parts of North and South America,
Africa, Asia, Australia, and Poly
nesia. Undoubtedly the cotton genus,
technically term-ed Gossypium, was
widely distributed in both hemis
pheres long before the plant was d'o-
mesticaed by man. Old World and
New World forms of cotton were'
domesticated independently in pre
historic times.
Presence of wild species of cotton
unrelated to cultivated forms in
Australia and the poor adaptation of
cotton seeds for natural dispersal
are considered .evidence that the
group had spread to that co.ntinent
before it became separated from oth
er lands.
NOTICE OF NEW
REGISTRATION IN
SELMA TOWNSHIP
Notice is hereby given that at
the meeting of the County Board of
Elections held on September 6th,
1930, at Smithfield, North Carolina,
that it was ordered that a new reg
istration of voters for the Novem
ber election and thereafter be had
in Selma Township.
The Books will be open for said
new registration beginning with the
4th day of October, 1930.
LEON G. STEVENS,
Chairman of County Board of
Elections.
James D. Parker, Secretary of
The blades and upper parts of the
reed grass contains good nutrients,
says Dr. Halverson, outranking the
other three feeds used in compari
son. V/hen it comes to using the
reed grass as a hay, however. Dr.
Halverson doies not regard it so-
highly:
It is believed by livestock men
at the college that these facts found
by Dr. Halverson are of such value
that the farmers of the great coast*-
al coun-try may feel safe in going
ahead with their beef cattle, pro
jects, using the reed grass, where
it is availabe, as a base feed, sup
plemented by better feeds when,
better feed is needed.
EASTERN SWAMP GRASS
GOOD CATTLE FEED
Still another favorable omen in
the development of beef cattle pro
duction in the low country of eastern
Carolina is the announcement by
A GOOD LAW
A federal court has just upheld a
new law in Ohio which limits the'
length of motor vehicles- on public
highways. It is a good law, and
there must be times in the life of
every Selma motorist when he wishes
a similar one was in force closer
home. The object of the law is to
prevent excessive obstruction of the
highways on curves and at road in
tersections. Autos with trailer at
tachments on which four or five new
cars are transported were largely in
c,aroima js uic ctmiuuijxcuiciiv. --- - , n
Dr. J. 0. Halverson, nutrition chem- ' mind when the law was passed. Pas-
1 4- ^ ^ nt«c»4-I-T n Iri’rT n»_
Kerttucky has a Republican gov
ernor, Flem D. Sampson, and all the
rest of the state officers including ■— -• , — _
the lieutenant governor are Demo- County Board of Elections,
crats and Governor Sampson dare
not leave the state for fear that the
Democrats will take charge of af
fairs and overturn -everything that
he has accomplished and stood for.
The governors of the several states
were summoned to 'Washington the
past week by the Pre.sidient to con
fer on drought conditions but Gov
ernor Sampson did not attend for
he said that if he left Kentucky that
all vacant political offices-' would be
grabbed by the Democrats. On one
occasion before Governor Sampson
left the state for a short visit and in
COTTON A TROPICAL
PLANT ORIGINALLY
i
Wild cottons, from which our do
mesticated cottons have originated,
are strictly tropical, according- to
Dr. Thomas H. Kerney, of the Unit
ed States Department of Agriculture.
The wild cottons are practically
limited to the Tropics of Cancer and
Capricorn, and to altitudes of less
than 6,000 feet.
Man’s selection of early maturing
forms has extended this crop in
ist at State College, that the low
dwarf reed grass of this sec
tion is highly nutritious and palat
able.
Field teats made that the Black-
land Branch Station near Wenona in
Washington County by Earl Hostet
ler have, shown that both scrub and
pure bred beef animals may be main
tained on this grass 'with excellent
results. But before going into any
extended recommendations as to its
use as a feed to develop a great beef
cattle industry, it was thought wise
to subject the reeds to a careful
chemical analysis. ' Therefore, Dr.
Halverson gathered samples from
Wenona and other places and put
through his chemical tests.
As a result, he says, the reed
grass ranks right along with Sudan
grass, timothy hay and Johnson
.grass. Especially in crude protein,
the -essential element, is the grass
favored. Its content is also high
for a grass. In fact. Dr. Halver
son finds more of this protein and
fat in the dwarf reeds than he does
in Johnson grass and Sudan grass
or 'Timothy hay. The fibrous or in
digestible part is also higher than
in these but as the cattle graze
senger busses, too, are getting long
er and becoming a greater menace
to safety. Unless restrictions are
set up somebody is always certain
to hog more than a rightful share of
the public property, and some busses
are now taking up practically all the
road. They not only make it un
comfortable for others, but extreme
ly dangerous. In limiting the length
of busses and trucks Ohio has passed
a good law. It should serve as an
example to states that have not yet
shown such foresight.
PxYE FOR PASTURES
While taking steps to conserve all
possible feed for wintering and fat
tening livestock, farmers are finding
that they must also look to the 1931
pasture situation. Late pasture for
this fall is also possible, if rains
come and proper crops are seeded.
Probably no crop will make as
much fall pasture after late seeding,
and then green up early in spring,
as rye. it is most hardy of the
grain crop.s and rarely is. winter-
killed in the United States. Rye
may he seeded as late as N5\%m-
ber 1, but for fall growth should be
put in during- September.
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