TWO
News Items F
And The Sta
\ Raleigh.?
Probably by the end of!
this week, certainly by the beginning!
of next, week, tobacco warehouses.?
dosed for two weeks by voluntary action
of warehousemen observing a
proclamation to that effect by Governor
J. C. B Eliringhaus. will be
open for business again, but u. !er
very different circumstances from
those existing at the closing.
During the interval much has happened.
The proclamation declaring a
voluntary tobacco holiday on the markets
already opened, came the same
day and almost before the ink was
dry on a resolution adopted by some
.1.000 tobacco farmers gathered in Raleigh.
Governor Ehringh&us then
headed a delegation to Washington,
where he secured the co-operation of
the national administration in ?he
*.dui>c iuc Luyrtixu i<:.nuc;d. ? 11 * 1
ginia, South Carolina and Georgia j
joined the ranks. j
Then another meeting of tobacco
growers, representing almost every
one of the 50-odd counties which
raise bright, flue-cured tobacco met
in Raleigh, organized and arranged
for count meetings on Monday of
this week. At these and the campaign
following, it was expected that by the
end of the week every tobacco grower
in the State would have signeu
the contract offered by the government
to reduce his acreage a maximum
of 30 per cent., the exact percentage
to be determined later, for
the years 1934 and 1935.
The Federal Government, meanwhile.
announced a processing lax ov
four cents a pound, average, to be applied
October 1. in order to provide ^
a fund to pay growers for losses from
the reduced acreage for the next two ,
years. Just, what effect this will have j
on prices when the tobacco warehouses
reopen is uncertain. Belief is t
that it will boost prices a oil. prob- ^
ably to the "parity" point, which is! J
now tigured at around 16 cents perI
pound for the present crop.
Kegardie&s of the effect on prices v
this summer arid fall, the -Joint, action t
of Governor Ehringhaus and the ail- ^
ministration at Washington will, ap- j
patently, bring about a condition that ,
has never existed before in the near- '
1:ly * SO -the first incligna- \
tion meeting was held, the first reap"- .
lutions and the first proposals for a t
tobacco growing holiday were con- i
aiucmj, aiiU iifruyt?y':r
Iii many, many meetings, the tobacco
growers have been as mad,
stamped as loudly, resoluted as vigorously,
threatened as vociferously
and ordered tobacco holidays as ear- ,
nestly as they did in Haieigh two
weeks ago. Number of timer, have *
they enetred into solemn compacts *
to sow no plant beds and set out no j
plants the next year?while the cur- ,
rent crop was being sold at ruinous j
prices. But as the next season rolled
around, everything had been forgotten
and all resolutions, threats, orders
and agreements were forgotten.
The usual crop was planted.
Now, the conditions arc different.
Now, while resolutions, threats, and
agreements are being made, the Gov- ^
era merit, spurred on by the Gover
nors' lead. 13 getting the names of .
the growers on the dotted line, a sol- .
emn pledge to their government that
they will restrict acreage next year. c
This will be a pledge that cannot be J
disregarded, an agreement that can- j
not be broken. And, for the first time
in nearly 300 year's, something will
undoubtedly result from the indigna- ^
tion meetings and price protests. The ^
crop will be reduced to a maximum of v
30 per cent, for the next two years. j.
The inexorable law of supply and p
demand has always, is now and will j
work, the crop will be reduced, thus t
reducing the supply. The demand will ^
continue, or possible increase moder- ^
ately. The result will be that growers 2
will get the higher prices desired. It ~
took three things to bring it about. ^
The glowers had to get marl; the1 ^
Governor had to lead that madness |
into effective routes .and get the car v
of Washington; and Washington had
to act while the growers were still 3
mad. These three things will accom- ^
plish the desired results. They will n
accomplish success where history has
recorded failure for 300 years.
Governor Ehringhaus issued a proclamation
calling for a complete sign- f
up of tobacco growers this week. A d
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F. D. J^gize Photo |
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Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., is
home from his tour of Europe and
foremost among the "wonderful
times" he had was ot a bull fight
staged for him in Spain, where he
donned native garb and was enteritained
by the bull-fighters.
telegram from President Franklin D.
Roosevelt shows be has the ear of
the nation's "wonder man" and New
Deal leader; .
"Regret exceedingly that because
if belated arrival I did not see you
yesterday," President Roosevelt wired
governor Ehringhaus. "1 am in touch
vif.h the tobacco problem through the
Secretary of Agriculture and wish to
issure you and through you the growers
of tobacco of our deep sympathy
with their situation Department of
Agriculture as you know is moving
promptly under Agricultural Adjustnent
Act on program designed to correct
conditions and we arc confidcnty
counting on your co-operation and
.jitti. 531 uk; growers m malting it er.-|
ective." |
Teacher Salaries
Teacher salaries for next year as
.vorked out by committees of the two
tsodies and already adopted by the
State School Commission, were approved
by the State Board of Education
at a meeting last week, thus
completing the joint approval required
iy statute The salaries, ranging from
Uh_tu_$90...a. month, were-worked oivt
:o utilize all of the more than $13,)00,000
available for teaching from
he $16,000,000 appropriated by the
General Assembly for schools. Atorney
General D. G. Brumrnitt voted
tgainst the approval, he having presented
a resolution calling for a It)
>er cent, increase in salaries, if and
vhen the revenues justify such inxease.
The board took the position
t would only be confusing and holdng
out a false hope. The Governor is
luthorized to increase salaries of all
state employees, including teachers,
f revenues justify it.
Langley Not to Die
Gus Langley did not and will not
lie in the State's electric cliair for
he murder of Lonnie Russell, Asheille
filling station operator lor which
ie was convicted and sentenced to
lectrocution last Friday. Governor
Ckringhaus ha9 commuted the senence
of death to life imprisonment,
vhile Parole Commissioner makes a!
urther close investigation. Fifteen toj
v. jjcupic say i^angiey was m W'ilningtcn
on the date o! the murder,
is associates say all night, while <iisite
rested reputable people say he
as there at 5 p. m., and the murder
fas committed about 9 p. in. The
uestion is could Langley make the
20 miles in four or five hours in a j
,-heezy seven-year-old Dodge car. He!
iay be released.
Not So With Stone
But Bryant Stone, Wilkes County
amier. paid the death penalty Friay
for admitted murder of his sonl-law,
Wayne Norman, from ambush,
tone admitted the murder a few days
efore his end, after denying it thru
tie trial and until recently. Yancey
[arris, his brother (their father nevr
married their mother) and his widw,
Mrs. Fanny Stone, of Cycle, cared
the body home in an old farm
uck. An undertaker fainted during
le electrocution. It was described as
ie of the most gruesome and touchig
electrocutions ever held at State
rison.
Ethcridge Gives Views i
R. Bruce Etheridge. new director
conservation and development,
imes out strong for location of na
anai icresi areas in uie eastern part J
the State, as well as in the Piedont,
in the national recovery plan
bich calls for spending $20,000,000 (
r land for such areas In the nation, j
ith $5,000,000 in the southeastern
irt of the country. These areas i
nild be used as sites for the Civilian
mswvation Corps forces which are <
rpected to be moved from northern 1
southern states for the winter J
WATAUGA DSMGCRAT?EVERY
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Stati? Kednres Overdraft
By holding its expenditures to less
| titan a miilioa dollars from th*> gen-1
! oral fund in August, North Carolina.!
was able to reduce the overdraft to |
slightly more than a million dollars,
while the highway fund balance was
increased a little, leaving a balance
| of about $5,900,000 in the treasury
in both funds.
j The general fund cash overdraft
; at the end of August was $1,129,1999.24;
as compared with a $2,677,601.71
overdraft at the beginning of
August. August expenditures were
$?>88,115.51, while the month's receipts
were <2.3S0.717.9S.
With a highway fund balance of
$5,666,902.12 at the first of the month
! receipts of $2,618,411.52 and expenditures
of $2,093,962 12 during August,
the balance at the end of the month
of August was $6,191,351.52.
May Rename Members of Local
Government Commission
If Governor Ehringhaus observes
the opinion recently issued by Attorney
General D. G. Brummitt, he will
! have to rename four out of five new
members of the Local Government
Commission, the Brummitt opinion
being that four of the members are P
now holding two offices, contrary to ?
the Constitution. The Local Govern- ?1
merit Act contemplated having com- r
missioners familiar with city and 4
county problems and specifies that
they should have had experience.
Formerly most of them have been local
officials and the question of two o
offices was not. raised. h
Under the Brummitt ruling, E. B. f:
Denny, mayor of Gastonia; E. B. Hor- P
ner, mayor of Burlington, a reap- tl
pointment; L.ouis Fisher, commission- n
I er of finance, elected, Wilmington, o
and Jolui L. Skinner, Warren County d
commissioner, all recent appointees, p
arc ineligible for the commission, s
Meade H. Willis, Winstcn-Salem, non- t:
office holder, is eligible. Four State P
officers, the executive committee, the!
treasurer, auditor, secretary of state; ?
and revenue commissioner, are ex-of-) h
ficio members $
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To Distribute Cotton Checks
County farm agents who will dis- "
tribute the $2,800,000 to r>0.000 North J
Carolina cotton farmers for plowing
under cotton will furnish a list of the
farmers receiving the checks to the
county relief administrators, in order "
that the names may he checked r
eg?.!*?*-1 thfiw who have received relief
during the past months, Mrs. ?
Thorous O'Berrv, State relief admin- e
istrator, announces. u
The Department of Agriculture has n
agreed to make the lists available to b
the relief workers so there will not t<
he a continuation of relief funds go- P
ing to those receiving government _
checks, in sufficient amounts, tor
cotton plowing. Mrs. O'Berry has aSnt
instructions and details of the ar
rangements to ail county relief workers.
Lumber Production
North Carolina produced 382,852,000
board feet of lumber in 1932, as
compared with 500,302.000 board teet
in 1931, a drop of only 24 par cer.t,
while the drop in production of lumber
in the entire nation was 39 per 1
cent, or from 16,522,043.000 board
feet in 1931 to 10,159.465.000 board
feet in 1932, an analysis of a report
of the U. S. Bureau of the Census '
by State Forester J. S. Holmes reveals.
i
North Carolina continued to lead
all states in 1932 in active mills, 649 i
having been in operation during the
year. The large number of portable i
bank mills moving from one timber 1
tract to another caused the State to
hold this lead, Mr. Holmes said. Soft <
woods comprised a great part of the i
lumber production in 1932, or 314,738.000
board feet, or which 293,206,- 1
0O0 was of yellow pine, and 68,114,000 1
board feet of hardwoods
Motor Directors to Meet i
A meeting of all State directors of J
motor vehicle operations will be held '
in Chicago the latter part of the
month for the purpose of forming a '
nation-wide organization to undertake '
to work out uniform reciprocal rnotor
vehicle regulations; L,. S. Harris, di- 1
rector in this State, announces. U11- 1
less the states work out some basis of
agreement and. quit squabbling and: <
quibbling, Ihe Federal Bureau of 1 '
Public Roads is expected to make a| '
rule and enforce it through a plan! '
of witliholdmg federal road allot- 1
ments for states violating the rules. 1
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Auto Sales Increase
Sales of new automobiles in North '
Carolina continues its remarkable in- 1
ci-ease, sales in August slightly sur- 1
passing those of July, when the halfyear
license became effective, and
much more than doubling sales of
August, 1932. Sales to the end of August
this year reached 16,947 automobiles,
as compared with 10.343 to the
same date last year, and 3,760 trucks
as compared with 2,378 in the same
period last year. Director Harris, of
the Motor Vehicle Bureau, says. I
A.ut >raobile sales the past August
were 3,689 as compared with 3,683 g
for the Juiy before and 1,419 in August
of last year, while truck sales In t
August were Y43 as compared with v
593 the month before and 304 in August,
1932, *
New cars sold included 1583 Chev- t
rolets, 966 Fords, 592 Plymouths, 149 t
Pontiaca, 129 Uodges, 34 Essex, 70 r
Chryslers, 34 Austins, 33 Buicks, 31 (]
Willys-Knights, 29 Itocknes and 26
DeSotos. High-priced cars included six "
THURSDAY?BGOIvE, N. C.
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l|Mg^ ij'ln * Here are the
jS? League baseball
" stood the experts
w\ this aeason. 3
F?A> McKechnie of
Braves and ris
/ Bill Terry of V
,iA Giant*. Their te
<^9K> .; - conceded & cham
? of the season but
^$SK I they were battl
for the flag wit
vantage for Tei
ackards, two each of LincdJns, Hud-Jf;
cms aiid Pierce Arrows and one Cad-jo
lac. Trucks sold include 413 Chev- J o
olets, 19S Fords, 51 Internationals, tl
3 Dodges and 14 little Austins. s3
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Relief Funds
Federal unemployment relief funds
f $7,360,500 have be?m distributed in p
forth Carolina during the 11 months fa
rom October. 1932. to August, just jj
nccoH ??? oilrfifmn (A 1 >1 _ IaaoI funHc i
hat have been devoted to unemployment.
relief, figures compiled in the
ffice of Mrs. Thomas O'Berry, State
irector of relief, show. Estimates
lace the allotment tor September at
lightly above $400,000, which will toil
nearly $7,800,000 for the 12-month
eriod since such relief started.
Watauga County has been allotted
31.762 in the 11 months, the amount
y months being as follows: October.
1,000; November. $1,092: Decernoer,
3,150: January $4,000: February, $4,00:
March, $3,000; April. $4,000. May
4.000; June, $2,620; July, $2,400 and
august, $2,000.
A TIM EI/F FAIOl Qt'ESTIOK
What causes crooked breast bones
i pullets? How msy this be corseted
?
Answer: Ttova condition is caused
y a 1HCK lU Wl UJWI lUUiCtaiii auu Otur
elements in the feed ana also by
nproper perch poles. A well balanced
risn uuniiiuiJiig COu l?V?r- ull" witu ~
uth Vitamin A and D will do much
i correct the trouble. The use of
"rch poles with a flat roosting sur
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IF TELEPHONE
S%T. "MRfSARrsc
C02JLD TALK
By Thomas Parks,
MANAGER
i irf ,
Southern Bell
Telephone and Telegraph Co.
7^? How
Interesting It would be It a
telephone switchboard could talk.
We would get a picture of the intimate
daily life of our community.
A signal appears
on the switch- ^351" |
board. "Number 14-i-i4t?^
please," eays the ^tg^q
operator, and
comes an excited
voice, * Operator,
please, quick I want 476 ? Dr.
Brown.*' There's a flash of quick
moving hands and "central" has Dr.
Brown on the wire. Another signal,
md it's Johnny Green calling Mary
Doe, and it's likely those lines will
be busy for some time.
"Number please," and this time
t stock buyer. Is calling a distant
ilty about a carload of hogs. Then
It's Farmer Drown calling In a
Sorry for the town veterinary. His
prire jersey cow is sick. *
Then come a string of signals in
luick order. Several women aro
calling friends to organize a church
locfal. In the midst of this flurry
I long distance call comes for
dro. Jackson. Her married son,
l hundred miles away, is calling to
jive the news that "it's a boy."
So on and on in never ending
luccession the signals come In
vhile "central" sits at her post and
vith deft hands snrt sympathetic j
mderstanding weaves them togetbtr
to form the fabric of the social ,
tnd business life of the community.
vS some ono so w11-1 "
'Central and licr switchboard pre
the nerve center ol our
community'3 'lire.'"
The telephone pioys
vV^t*1 8 leading part in evcry
phase, station and
activity ot Ufa We
turn to it la ctnor[eccics.
It 1?. a means of banishing
oncllr.css. a comfort and protecion
at all limes. Probably that's
ihy people say the value of telehone
service outweighs the small
031. Ask for our free 61-page 111nsrated
book. Magic of Communionion.
.It tells bow the telephone,
adio and television work, and othor
Qterestlng things.
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two Katio wrf*r*~ -' <* vfjjKj t*
managers-who fSff mm jBjgf ' t(
on their heat's JSJjCT i ?,
L?eft is Bill i x
the Boston I ?#
rht, Memphis
lie New 1 ork v< j -N
ams were not j 15'
w at the start | \t!
on September j j4>i
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h a slight ad- J
Ty> Giants. , it
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V 'I ei
ace of 1 3-2 inches instead of the; K
rdinary round poles will, also aid Iri j w
orrectrng" the trouble. In addition to S bi
lis the birds should receive oyster]
hull, succulent green feed, and plen-1
y* of sunshine.
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When the North Carolina Crop Im-1 **
rcvement Association was organ-:0'
sed in 1929, some 25(1 farmers joined
he organization. At present there 1tk
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SEPTEMBER 14, 1933 ^
re 306 members who produced 102,30
bushels of certified seed lust seaKIS
LETTER WIIA BRING
JOY TO FAT FOLKS AND
NEURITIS SUFFERERS! I
"Bear Sirs: I was so crippled with
euritis all down left side of my head V
ud arm and both knees so sv/oll'n
tat I could hardiy get up ami down,
t times my feet pained so badly l
.ought my toes would break oft. I 2 I
led everything. The doctor told me
would he no better while I lived $y|
ere but I stopped in a drug store in ;
rooklyn. N. Y.. one day lost Noveraer
and the man in charge toid me 68
) take Krusclien for 3 weeks steady
ad I would get relief which I did.
ever felt better and along with it,
ave lost weight. I weighed 210 then.
o\v I weigh 154 and while I'm over
1 years old I fee! 30. I took it. for one
ling?got two?so I now have six
thers here taking it." Mrs A. V. B
arr. Ft. Tilden. N. Y. 3
It's the little daily dose that does
so take a half teaspoonfu! et
ruschen in a glass of hot water ev- B
ry morning iwfore breakfast. Get
mschen at any live druggist in the 9
orld?a jar lasts 4 weeks and costs \ K
Lit a trifle. ?Adv. '
Dr. C_ B- B?ug)jjr*n, Evr, F.ary S
ose and Throat Specialist, Elizasthton,
Tenn., will be in the office
F Dr. J. B. Hagaxnan in Boone, on
te first Monday in each month for fi
\k practice of hU profession.
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