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News And Comment From Washington WaKhington, D. C., Feb. 1-5.— PreKsing formard .steadily, persist- ■«ntly—one might almost say relent lessly—his program of reconstruc tion, rehabilitation and recovery. President Hoover last week gave out from the White House a statement calling upon the nation to put an ■end to hoarding and thus return to the channels of trade and business the more than one billion, three hundred millions of money that has been withdrawn from circulation and Is now serving no useful purpose whatever. Following this statement the President called into conference reprsntatives of some 50 nation wide civic and commercial organiza tions in the hope of enlisting every con.structive element in our popula tion in the effort he is making to bring about normal conditions, and all of them pledged hearty cooper- » ation, „, ' ' •'^•'^ointlng out the fact that every dollar hoarded means a destruction of from $5.00 to $10.00 of credit, and that credit is the blood stream of .our economic life, the President urged the people to put their dollars to work, cither by conservative in vestments or by deposit in sound in stitutions, in order that it may thus return into the channels of economic life. “Every dollar returned from hoarding to circulation,” declared the President, “means putting men to work. It means help to agricul ture. Everyone hoarding currency in jures not only his own prospects and t of his family^ but is dctirig ..•^Ofrtl'ary to the common good.” And the President calls upon the people for “the same service, the same con- fidnce in our government and our institutions, the same unity and so lidarity of courageous action which they gave during the great war” to the end that this depression may be quickly ended, and was noP Bryan given a second chance when he failed the first time, and then a third chance when he failed the second time? And shall not the man, the “Happy WarrioV” who ran when no Democrat could have won and still got more votes than received by any other Demo crat, be given a second chance now that there is a possibility of vic tory? That is the way his^friends argue the case for him, and it is upon that argument that delegates committed to his candidacy will be elected in at least a dozen states. I?- In drafting Gen. Dawes to head the Reconstruction Finance Corpor ation, in sending Secretary Mellon to take his place at the Court of St. Jame.s, and in promoting Ogden Mills to the head of the Treasury tiepartment. President Hoover is conceded to have settled three difi- cult problems with masterly skill. The Dawes appointment made an instantaneous hit with the country. It was imperative that the man sum moned to head the gigantic Recon struction Finance Corparation should command the complete confidence of the business world and nobody does that in greater degree than Gen. Dawes. It wa.s equally imperative that our Ambassador t.o Great Bri tain should be a man fitted to cope with the .statesmen of Europe in the discussion of the problems of world finance involving reparations, debt- payments and .stabilized currencies, that are certain to arise during the -coming months, and Mr. Mellon measures up as no other man could to the needs of that situation. As to Mr. Mills, he has been under- ■ ■secretary of the Treasury for the pa.st two years ancP has shown a complete mastery of the problems which constantly confront that great Department. The wisdom of the President in making these appoint ments has been attested, not only hy the acclaim with which they have been met throughout the coun try, but by the fact that they were confirmed by the Senate promptly and without recorded opposition. Gov. Smith is careful to say that he will not support or oppose any candidate prior to the convention. But he makes no pledges for his friends, and the general interpreta tion put upon his statement is that it spells doom for the hopes of Franklin D. Roosevelt. If he favor ed the Roosevelt candidacy he could edStiy have mad§ his nomination cer tain b'y merely taking himself defi nitely out of the picture. His failure to do this is equivalent, so the pol itical wise-acres say, to an an nouncement that he does not favor Roosevelt and that is hint enough to his friends. The movement to “stop Roosevelt” was already actively un der way and it will be pushed from now on with renewed vigor. If it succeeds, if Smith stops Roosevelt, then it is assumed that Roosevelt will stop Smith, and so the stock of the lesser candidates has decid edly advanced with the chief’s an nouncement. There will be enough of these to afford the convention a wide field of choice. Ritchie, of Ma ryland; Byrd, of Virginia; Garner, of Texas; Murray, of Oklahoma; Reed of Missouri; White of Ohio; Lewis of Illinois—each of these -will have the backing at least of his own State. Of course it is too early to make anything like definite fore cast ft.s to which one of these will win if the “Big Shots” succeed in killing each other off. But— Keep your eye on Garner! NEW ORDINANCE ABOUT AUTO LIGHTS ANNOUNCED Alfred E. Smith i.s no longer the “m.vstery man” of the Democratic part.y. In a statement given to the pres's a few iJays ago he announc ed that he i.s the leader of the Dem- «cratic party, that if the party wants him to make the fight again thi.s year he will do it but that he will make no pre-convention cam paign, and that he will take no part prior to the convention foi' or against any candidate. That is to i'ay he does not exactly throw his, hat in the ring, but he deposits it carefully so near the ring that it cannot be overlooked and he does not forbil anybody else to pick it U). and pitch it in. And that it will be picked up and ..'iiched in nobody in big league pol itics .-'.eems to have any doubt. The “I’lan who has aroused more personal ;■ ithusiasm among Democrats than ;iy candidate their party has had the first Bryan campaign and ..•ii .got 5,000,000 more votes than yV :i' e-rr cast for any other Demo- 1, till has a tremendou.s hold .v-j.i leaders in a score of ..eh.iss .ind u]>on the rank and file of 'g: piirtv generally. Not -only is sir; -e .ter.sonal enthu.siasm for him, • -jf the party pre,edent counts very s's-ingly ir- isss ftivcr. Was not Gro- V ClevtdaiKi -ir rginat.'d three time.s. There has recently been publish ed throughout the state a .special ordinance of the State Highway Commission revising the rules with regard to automobile headlights. ■Under the Consolidated Statutes of North Carolina cited in this ordi nance, it is illegal to operate an automobile on the hi.ghways of the State with glaring and dazzling- headlights. The Legislature has em powered the Commission to pass time to time as may seem proper to carry out traffic regulation.s .set up by it, ■ Section two of the ordinance reads: I “When the headlamps of motor I vehicles have been properly adjust- I ed, as required by the ordinance of j the State Highway Commission and Section 2621 (9.3) of the Consoli dated Statutes of North Carolina, and ' an approved anti-glare device applied, then the said headlamp.s shall be deemed to comply with the reiuirements of the Consolidated Statutes, Section 2621 (91) (Section 49 of the Revised Motor Vehicle Laws issued April 1, 1929) prohibit- in,g the use of glaring and dazzl ing headlights, -so long as said head lamps so eciuipped are set to throw the headlamp beams .strai,ght ahead of the vehicle.” Section five of the ordinance reads: “That motor vehicles equipped with approved anti-glare device shall be exempt from the restrictions as to candle power of bulbs as provid ed in State Highway Ordinance no. [ 25.” j The anti-glare device now ap- ’ proved and distributed throughout : the State is sold for one dollar per pair. The cost of adjusting the head lamps has been reduced from seven- ■ ty-five cents to fifty cents, which fifty cents also includes the installa- j tion of the, said anti-glare device. ■ It is ruled that the headlamps need not be adjusted again when they are I once equipped with an approved anti- j glare device so long as they remain . set to throw the beams straight I ahead of the vehicle. I The State Highway Commission has ordered the headlights of all of its automobiles which travel ex- ^ tensively at ni.ght eciuipped with the approved Nodimolite headli,ght de- , vice. ' Three Years For 20c A FEW DOZEN EGGS WILL PAY up your .-ubscription to the Johnstonian-Sun for a whole year. The Editor will allow you the lop market price for same. To the first 100 people sending us $1.20 each we will send THE JOHNSTONIAN-SUN ONE YEAR AND THE SOUTHERN AGRICULTURIST THREE YEARS t This applies to new or old subscribers alike. We only have a J LIMITED NUMBER I of subscriptions to the Southern Agriculturist to offer at this price, I so act quickly if you want to get in on this offer. I The Johnstonian-Sun, Selma, N. C. I Spraying Costs Little But It Means Much The cash putlay necessary for spray materials needed to produce quality apples and peaches in the farmer-owned orchards of Nbirth Carolina is comparatively little, yet, high quality fruit cannot 1)6 produc ed without spraying.. “This is one of the most import ant orchard operations,” says H. R. Ni.swon.ger, extension horiculturist at State College. “The cash outlay for spray materials including ga.s and oil for the power machines has averaged about $3 an acre for apples and $1.50 an acre for peaches ac cording to production records kept by a number of orchard men in 1931. Where it i.s necessary to hire out side labor an additional cash out lay of about $5 an acre will be necessary. The apple . orchards in which these production records were kept varied from 7 to 30 acres with about 50 trees to the acre. The mature trees were somewhat under sized and ran.ged in age from 15 to 20 years.' There were also some younger trees from 7 to 12 years old.” The amount of diluts spray solu tion used in covering the orchard at one spraying, averaged from 1 1-2 to 2 gallons a tree or about 75 to 100 gallons an orchard. The peach orchards studied by Mr. Niswonger were located in the upper piedmont region and varied in size from 5 to 12 acres each. The trees were from 4 to 6 year.s of age. There were 5 to 7 spray applications for the apples and 4 to 5 for the peaches. Growers sometimes try to cut corners in times of poor prices for their fruit, but one cannot save dollars by not spraying, the hori- cultuiist says. During periods of poor prices, quality fruit will move faster than fruit of low quality. Cut ting nut one or two of the sprays therefore may have the opposite ef fect from what was expe'cted. year which is an increase of 211 over 1980-. The average production ppr co'W for the last year was 6,433 pounds of milk and 282 pounds of butterfat as compared with 6,185 pounds of milk and 261 pounds of butterfat in 1930. This shows a de cided improvement in the production of our dairy animals.” Mr. Arey says that the dairyVnert found by their record keepin'g tVi-at 352 cows were boarders and there fore unprofitable. These Were cull ed and sold to the butchers. Another good indication of the gradual improvement being made in hairy herds wa.s that in 1931, there were 33 herds which averaged 3®0 pounds or more' of butterfat per’ cow. The actual production of these 33 herds 'was 7,456 pounds of milk and 330 pounds of fat per cow. In the previous year of 1930, only 22 herds produced as much as - 300 pounds of fat per cow. Then, last year, Mr. Arey found two herds where the fat production averaged 400 pounds, or over- of fat. One of these was a Guernsey herd owned by Thurmond Chatham at Elkin which produced 8,888 pounds of milk and 448 pounds of fat a cow last year, and the other -was a Jersey herd o\vnel by Aldridge Brothers of Haw River which produced 8,250 pounds of milk and 405 pounds of fat a cow last year. These are the first two herds in the State to go above the 400-pound mark. FAicts .such as these tend to show that despite the depression. North Carolina dairymen are pressing for ward in building more profitable herds over the State, says Arey. JEER-INVITING SLOGAN (Union Republican) A Wa.sliington weekly newspaper offered a prize of $100 for the best .slogan to be submitted for the Democrats to use in their campaign and a like amount for a Republican slogan. Three United States Sena tors, Copeland, of New York, Shep pard, of Texas, and Dill, of Wash ington, were named a comvnittee to .select the winner bf the Democratic slogan. A like committee of Repub lican Sen.atOrs were appointed but they have not yet made a report. The Democratic committee Witti thousands of sample.s to pick trom, selected—what do yOu wuppose? Here it is: “He HaW; WeYe Com ing Back.” Editor L'oui.s Graves, of the Chap el Hill News, in the language of A.iao.s tf Andy i.s “regusted” at the aralygnified slogan adopted by this supposedly intelligent conimittee of Senators as the Democratic war-cry and delivers himself of the follow ing: “We could hardly imagine one less appealing to the intelligence or less stimulating to the emotions. It suggests noise and stupidity and no higher aspiration than a desire to get at the crib and go to gobbling. “if three Republican leaders had been set to work to find a slogan for the Democrats, and if their aim had been to find one that would go furthest toward robbing the Demo crats of every semblance of dignity, it i.s doubtful if they could have (lone better than thi.s. , “We should think the Democratic party would want to discourage. rather than invite, comparisons be tween itself and the animal which it has the misfortune to have as a symbol. Here is a spectacle indeed— a party adopting as its battle-cry the bray of a jackass!” HOW TO FAIL IN BUSINESS:. The MdUfette County News' publishes the following: excel lent set of directions on; h.ow tci fail ih business: A trade publication po'in.Ls out that, according to Bradstreef's; report for- 1930, 95 per cent of all business failure.s were non-advertisers. One does not hesitate a minute about insuring his home or place of busi ness, but how about the bu.siness it self? The sMUc.es.sful business man iss the one who goes after business; the- failure is the one who sits aroaiuU and waits for business to come ti.i him, Bradstreet’s percentage show.-, (hat the going business mart is arr advertiser, WILL ( ASTOR OIL PHYSIC THE BLADDER? N(», but juniper oil will. You cam drive out impurities and excess acic- which cause bladder weakness, back ache, leg pains and burning. Get juniper oil in the form of Bukets, the bladder physic, also containing buchu leaves, etc. LTse a 25c test box and if not satisfied your drug gists -will return your money. Yon are b'-und to feel better after this, cleansing and you get your regut: r ■ sleep. Sold by Selma Drug CY,-. . Adv. -Advertising Turns the Trick. EASTER EXCURSION Southern Railway System FINDS BETTER COWS NOW GROWN IN STATE Reports form 93 dairymen belong ing to the eight active herd im- proc’ement associations now active in North Carolina indicate that the dairy cows of today are more effic- i“nt producers than they were even one year ago. “The members of our herd im provement associations are scattered in 30. North Carolina counties,” says John A. .Arey, dairy exten.sion specialist at State Colle.ge, “These men had 3,364 cows on teat last “Over in, Cozad, Neb., is a chap by the name of Fred Anderson, who does a business of .8300,000 in a town of ;4,000 population. Anderson’s success has been well night phe- nominal. He says that there is no .secret about the reason for forging- ahead. Advertising has done the trick. Here is what Anderson has to .say for himself: ‘I have no sympathy for the merchant who sleeps bet-ween advertising blankets on bed sprin.gs that are nationally advertised, sleeps in advertising pajamas, who rides to work in an advertised car and who, when he gets to work, re fuses to advertise. He ought to go broke and he probably -will. If I were to .start in business again 1 would invest five per cent of my .gross sales in advertising, it pays.” —Woon.socket News. ONE FARE PLUS $1.00 ROUND TRIP BETWEEN ALL POINTS IN SOUTHEAST Including: Cincinnati, St. Louis, Memphis, Washington, Orlean.s. Atlanta, Birmingham, Vicksbuig' and Intermediate Points Dates of Sale: March 23,*24, 2.'), 26., Fiiiiil Return Limit 15 Days. Consult Ticket Agents, or Address F. H. POSTON, Division Passenger Agent New 301-5 Lawyers Building Phone 621 Raleigh, N. C.
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