C. H. PHAUP ADVISES TO
STOP --- SIT and THINK
nnn| HUbUtkad Um AkotkU
*erket end observing tha many way.
it has benefitted tki. aatlra takacco
grpwing .action, I cannot Wnlp bat
think that any farmar within ranch of
tha Aho.kia markat wko doa. not land
bit support to tha upbuilding of the
laosa loaf tobacco markat in Ahockia
doa. himself and hi. family a rank
injustice.
Ky M>~*> i ?*?rer-We r- ?U?J
issue, tna tobacco farmers to giro up
the loose loaf auction system' of selling
his tobacco, a system under which he
Mains ownership of his tobacco un
til ho accepts the price it brought at
auction, for the co-operettas market
ing system, a system in which ha has
absolutely nothing to say a? to what
ha should got for his tobacco. The
pricing, selling, collecting and handl
ing of HIS tobacco is in the hands of
soma one whom tha Farmer seldom?
if ever knows.
Aa a rule, a au look* altar his aw*
intereat better tkaa a stranger will
look after it for bim. CONTINUE
TO SELL YOUR OWN TOBACCO.
We know what the auction ajratem ia.
We will hare to experiment, (and
experimenta are always coatljr)
to find out bow tba Co-operative
plan will work unless you are
already a member of the Co
operative Exchange which haa tied up
a good many Peanuta in thia section,
much to the inconvenience and dis->
comfort of the members, merchanta
and Bankera. If that be the -case you
should know something of Co-opera
tive marketing. The tobacco exchange
will he run on the same principle, and
if we can already see the disadvan
tage of a very small exchange, what
can we expect from an exchange
which ia much larger, and a great deal
more difficult to handle.
You are told a great many things
by the paid organisers working for
such schemes, moat all of their strong
est arguments have for their founda
tion the little word "IF."
I btlint if jop will just asks up
< your mind to say "NO" to these pro
fessional canvassers who are earning
larger salaries in this lino of business
than it is possible for them to earn
at any thing also they may try to do,
in one year from now you will cos
seder yourself extremely fortunate.
I don't believe that it would ha
necessary to go to the expense of hir
ing canvassers, paying big advertis
ing bills, hiring .silver - tongued
orators, buying and paying for high
priced warehouses, and re-drying
plants, if -tha Co-operative system
would do tha Farmer oven a small
i percentage of the good which is claim
ed for it. It would not be necessary tc
have all this expeaaa, all of which
the Farmer pays to gat him; ho would
'go hunting for the Co-ops instead ol
the Co-ops hunting for him So don'l
let them excite you, think for yourself,
before tiaiug your crops up into some
thing not only for ono year, but foi
FIVE years. THINK FOR ONE
ninuit ? aurrvsi, luun
TOBACCO THIS YEAR WAS
WORTH THREE HUNDRED DOL
LARS AN ACRE, AND YOU HAD
FIVE ACRES. THEN YOUR CROI
OF TOBACCO WOULD BE WORTH
FIFTEEN HUNDRED DOLLARS.
NOW SUPPOSE, you were in the to
bocco exchange end you ware fortu
nate enough to rajte tobacco of as
equal value for the next five years j
don't you see that by signing thia
contract you would have turned ore.
to somebody that you know nothini
about SEVEN THOUSAND, FIVE
HUNDRED DOLLARS OF YOUR
MONEY to do with as they see fit
and you cannot have anything what
avor to say about the use of it, bul
will have to sit and wait until you art
sent any part of your money. ?
?DO YOU THINK THIS IS GOOD
BUSINESS FOR YOU AND CAR
YOU' AFFORD ITT Those can
vasaers try to put you against th?
warehousemen, and we all know thai
It is as much to the interest of thi
Warehouseman to got you a good prie.
as it is to the Farmer himself, bocaus.
the mora money the Farmer's tobacci
brings, the mora commission the ware
houseman gats. They will also tel
( you that they have the host ware
housemen in the business connects*
with them, so it must bo that the]
bare offered these warehoueomei
more money than they could make ii
'he warehouse business to got them, ii
addition buying their warehouses, ii
most cases and paying, in tha opinio,
of good business men, more for thasi
warehouses than it would bo possibl
to soli them to. any one also for.
AND YOU MR. FARMER?YOl
PAY THE BILL.
It has come to my attention tha
rumors arc being circulated in thi
section that the AhosUo market weak
v.
*
not titn any bujm thU KMOI
I wish to stats thai this npfrt ?
absolutely untrue, no doubt started
in order to mislead the tobacco
growers of this section in ordar to got
them to sail their tobacco in soma
other way than at auction an the floor
of the Farmers Warehouse in Ahoskie.
I want to assure every farmer in this
Companies, and the prospects are that
we will harp a larger buying force
on tbf Ahoskie market this season
than ever befbre.
It has always been my policy since
establishing a market in Ahoekia to
dn what I thought best for the tobacco
growers of this section and I shall
continue to do that as long as ! stay
with yets, I believe that when I
advise you to stick to the Auction sale
of your tobacco, and to WAIT AND
SEE what those Other systems will
amount to, I am giving you some of
; the best advice that it has ever boon
| my pleasure to give you.
Trusting that I shall sea all of my
old friends, and many new ones on
the floor of the IRON HOUSE, with
I their tobacco, often this season, I am
always for the best interest of the
tobacco grower. Yours, etc.
C. H. PHAUP, Proprietor,
(The Iron House,) The Farmers
Warehouse, AHOSKIE, N. C.
Market Opens August 10th.
ADVISES TO STAND
BY AUCTION SYSTEM
To the Editor:?In your issue of
May 22, 1922, you carry a letter from
Mr. Clarence Poe, in which he gives
some comparative figures' of prices
received by selling tobacco at auction
and through the Co-Operative Mar
keting Association in Kentucky. In
order that this letter may be more
clearly understood, ^he following com
ments are made:
It is officially reported by Mr. Han
na, Commissioner of Agriculture of
Kentucky, that up to March 1, 1922,
there was sold over the auction
floors in Kentucky 59,837,048 pounds
of the 192t~$:rop of buriey at an
average price of $21.26 per hundred
pounds. It is not stated, however,
that the entire buriey belt has sold
to date 74,140,846 pounds at an av
1 age of $22.66 per hundred pounds.
It is not explained in Mr. Poe's letter
that these sales included good,
common, "medium, green, damaged
and all other kinds of tobacco deliver
' ed to the auction floors. It is very
1 evident that twenty millions or more
| pounds of these sales averaged much
more than $29.00 per hundred.
The co-operative association re
ported Sold up to March 1, 1922 (and
since then have discontinued report
ing to the Agricultural Department),
some over twenty millions pounds of
' tobacco at an average of $29.00 per
' hundred. Now, Mr. Poe, do you
j know that this sale t include) good,
, medium, common, green, damaged
I and all other kinds just as delivered
to the association, or did it include
* certain grades of the good and med
ium tobaccos.
"I In justice to all concerned it does
?not seem just right to take a small
lot of tobacco sold by the association
and compare it with a large lot of
all grades sold through the auction
sales. Every one krfows, however,
that the lower and cheaper gnujes
will reduce the average price re
ceived for the better grades and this
fact will mean that the co-operative
association's average for the twenty
million and more will be reduced
when the lower and cheaper grades
will have been sold.
Since co-operative sales are not
reported to the Agricultural Depart
ment, of which Mr. Hanna is in
charge, it is only right that the ad
ditional forty million pounds and
price mentioned should be considered
as an approximation. Now, I will
tell you how you can secure actual
facts and conditions just as they are
ia Kentucky. If you have time and
money, take a little trip out to the
wonderful Blue Grass State; don't
let any one know you are coming or
what your busiess is. Brush
shoulder to shoulder with people in
and out of the association. Go out
in the rural districts; talk and be a
fanner with the farmer. Discuss co
operation and general conditions;
stop at the crosa-roads store; buy a
soft drink or something. Talk gen
5 eral topics and .ask the storekeeper
how is business anyway. Then head
t in ta the towns and citiaa; talk to
s merchants and business men in gen
I eral; visit the banks both small and
large; look around and judge for
yourself some things. Make up your
mind and come home. You will then
know more about actual conditions
of the Co-operative Marketing Asso
ciation in Kentucky than the orators
and newspapers of North Carolina
can .tell you in six months. *
Mr. Barker director of warehouses
. ?VSKU WU JUl.s 0. U> A?a
sey, of LaGrange, N. C., says there
was only thirty-six million pounds
of burley sold at auction over the
floors the past season. Now, if Mr.
Hanna's official report is right Mr.
Barker's statement is wrong. Yet
we have no right to question either
of these gentlemen because Mr. Poe'a
nrtirle read, Mr. Hanna is a man not
only known in Kentucky but all over
America for his patriotism and ac
curacy in statements made, while
Mr. Barker, a towering official of
the burley association, claims that
his cards are on the table and a
square deal to everybody is the as
sociation's motto. Yet with these
conflicting reports and statements
the farmers' and business men gen
erally of North Carolina are at sea
to know just where they can secure
accurate information that is not col
ored or misleading. Don't you farm
ers and business men of North Caro
lina know that you are not going to
get any information from' ttye Ken
tucky association that is in the *i east
antagnostic to the movement here?
It is only the smooth sailing, favor
able dope that will be divulged to us.
If you knew the cold, stern busi
ness men at the head of the Ken
tucky association as I know them
you would readily agree that they
are too shrewd to reveal to us the
troubles of the organization, be
cause they want us in so if we fall
we fall together.
Let'r stand by the good old auction
system that pays cash on delivery
and compare prices and averages for
the next five years. You will then
see which is the most profitable to
the tobacco farmer. Don't make any
more comparisons of prices received
until the co-operative association has
sold all of the tobaeco delivered to
it ju?t as the auction sales have
sold all the different grades that have
been brought to the various auction
houses throughout the burley sec
tion. Then and only then will it
be right to make public comparisons
that will enable the farmer to in
telligently decide which is the best
way for him to sell his tobacco. (
W. EARLY BASS.
Kinston, N. C.
LETTER FROM KY.
BUSINESS MAN
Greenville, N. C., May 15, 1922.
BILL LUXON,
Richmond, Ky.,
I feel confident that you will give
me facta concerning Co-Operative
Marketing in Kentucky. I wbrked
with you in Kentucky and I know you
will deal fair and square. Please
write me a letter stating facts as
they exist concerning the Co-opera
tive Tobacco Market. Please state
how the farmers and merchants feel
about it. And one I can show our
tobacco board of trade. I am in the
warehouse business here. Have not
joined the pool yet.
Richmond, Ky., May 18th, 1922.
Daar Sir:
Your inquiry in regard to the Co
operative Market Association in Ken
tucky; as I guess you'already know,
I am in the warehouse business and
you might think that I am prejudiced
against the association. The asso
ciation has used every means unfair to
get the growers into the association
in our our county, by telling them
they would have no place to sell theii
tobacco if they did not join. They
pooled about forty-five per cent ol
Madison county. The growers who
sold their own tobacco, had money to
pay their debts and buy clothing and
food for their families and, any num
ber of the growers or tenants in th<
exchange would give hundreds of dol
lars to get out of their contract, that
they have sigqed for five years. 1
hope that you will keep every growei
out of this scheme, where the little
fellows get nothing. You will be led
to believe that everything is grand
and that it' is the only place to sell
tobacco. For God's sake don't be, oi
let your friends join the pool. Th?
association is planning to make s
drive in this county again next week
to fSign the independent tobaccc
growers that were unsigned, but 1
don't think they will sign any mor?
in this county, and they will loe<
PRECAUTIONS
Some precautionary measures
which should be observed by shippers
and railroad employes in shipping
hogs in hot weather.
1. Don't try to save time by driv
ing hogs to death in hot weather.
2. Don't let driven hurry hogs
down or up steep chutes.
3. Don't load bogs in can when
they are hot or panting. It means
death from suffocation.
4. Dont permit cinden, rock dust,
coal slack, straw, shavings, tanbark or
similar material to be used for bed
ding car. Use SAND OR CLAY and
see that it is thoroughly soaked with
water
back af a# ovprheataCr^ . iusoM a I'
tine spray on hia belly or aprinkle the
floor-of the car or pen.
6. Don't try to save money by
overloading a car. Overloading means
dead animals.
7. Don't trust to luck that the rail
road has removed protruding nails
from the car furnished to you, and
don't assume that the door fastenings,
floor patchings, etc., are in an ac
ceptable condition.
8. Don't forget that the bruised
and crippled hog bruises and cripples
the shippers credit balance.
9. Don't load crippled animals un
less partitioned separately.
10. Facilities for drenching bed
ding of carload shipments of hogs in
transit have been furnished at the
following points: South Rocky Mount,
N. C., Fayettville, N. C., Wilmington,
N. C., Florence, S. C., Columbia, S.
C Bennetts, S. C., Yemassee, S. C.
G. A. CARDWELL,
Agricultural and Industrial Agent,
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Co.
Proof of the pudding is in the eat
ing thereof. Thousands praise Tan
lac. So will you. C. H. Mitchell Adv.
Under an agreement recently enter
ed into between the British Govern
ment and the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture frozen pork cuts
may now be imported into England. ?
0 :
_ A new marvel has been added to
London life in the form of a collection
of electric display advertising that
has been erected on buildings front
ing Piccadilly Circus in the heart of
the theater district. The display
makes the New Yorker think of Times
Square 20 years ago but it is a novel
ty to the Englishman.
0
Piping made of paper by an improv
ed process is the invention of a
Frenchman. This piping is made by
winding paper in a very tight manner
together with the use of an adhesive
and very light.
0 i
In a new fuel the' combustible part
of coal is conserved and the ash is
eliminated. It is believed that this
new fuel will find a market for the
poorer grades of coal and present new
opportunities to railroads and steam
ship* which are dependent upon high
priced fuels. The new fuel may be
stowed dry or in plastic or semi-liquid
form and may be handled by conveyor
or pump or fired by any automatic or
mechanical device for firing coal.
Tests prove it has 42 per cent steam
ing advantage over the best steaming
coal available at this time.
hundreds of them they have signed, or
at least the unpooled tobacco will
grow at least forty per cent in pounds
this season.
The market association has never
told any of its members yet what
they got for the tobacco they sold, or
how much tlUy sold, and it is all guess
work, as to the final outcome of what
it will amount to. Don't you believe
all the newspapers tell as that is pure
propaganda, and most every state
ment you see in the paper is mislead
ing and without authority. There
is seventy-five per cent of the real
tobacco growers in this county that
are independent, and you could not
drive them into the market associa
tion, so if you have any business
knowledge and are still sane, you or
your growers surely do not need a
guardian to attend to selling your to
bacco; and if I were you I certainly
would never sign up my tobacco or
warehouse to any association. Don't
, do like 1 did, sit still and not keep
, your friends out. If I were you I
I would do everything possible to pro
tect your tobacco growers from get
. ting their head in a halter with some
. one always pulling on it.
I am also a merchant doing a large
[ credit business among my friends,
. that raise tobacco.1 I had on my books
i $8,000 in accounts from ' tobacco
I growers, divided about $3,000 from
those out of the pool, and the rest to
I those who were in the poo{. Every
. single one of the growers who sold
. their tobacco independently have paid
k me, but not one single member of the
Co-operative Marketing Association
, has paid me a cent. So you can
[ see that it is not the success U has
, been pictured. Yours truly,
i ,W. B. LUXON.
ANN 6ALE
By MILDRED WHITE ,
c*prrt(ht. Hit, WMin K?wmpr Vmiau
This episode happened when Rich
ard Covington's name, or picture,
headed every paper, for Dick Cov- I
tngton, yon recall, waa one of our J
very rich young men, and hla ap- i
proachlng marriage with thla or that ,
heiress constantly heralded. These
supposed engagements having been .
later denied, society Immediately be
gan to speculate. 1
The English woman whose hand ru
flmr bestowed upon Richard had fol- i
? uilu vitta uutv Ul a?:iuaiuu
In un American village.
Now, whether this gossip might be
true, society In general was anxious
to ascertain ; reporters were the young
man's aversion, and no authentic In
terview had taken place.
Richard, on his return, made. Bright
Port by the sea his stopping plac%
and brought the Honorable Bertie with
him. : _
Dick expected to be bored, as usual;
but his second morning In Bright Port
changed this expectation.
Cantering down a leafy lane, ha
came one day upon a witching young
creature. The girl's eyes twinkled at
him, and she spoke his name.
Richard, displeased at the uncon
ventional address, would have ridden
on his way?but the girl smiled, a
most entrancing smile, and Richard
halted?and lingered. Though she j
confessed to being a guest of the ho
tel, Miss Ann frankly informed him I
that she was not of bis class. Nor, ?
she saucily added, did she care to be. |
" So, as there was no promise of meet
ing his charmer on common ground,
Richard took to haunting the byways
of Bright Port, and was nsually,
though briefly; rewarded. When he
came upon Bertie talking to Ann, Dick
was unreasonably angry.
"How did you happen to meet him 7"
he asked the girl.
"The way I happened to meet you,"
she calmly replied.
Her teasing dark eyes upon him,
Ann Gale charged Richard with his re-,
ported English attachment, and for
the first time Richard gave practl-.
cally the story ot his life's history. It
was so far removed from newspaper
supposition that Ann opened wider her
witching eyes.
"Now, what do you think of that?"
she exclaimed.
The Hon. Bertie was as sur
prised as his friend that night
when they glimpsed Ann, In a white
frock at the hotel danse.
"Never saw her In public," re
marked Bertie; "won't the women
freese the unknown?"
If the women did, two very good
danc% partners made up to Ann for
the |ax. Then at midnight, like Cin
derella, the "unknown" slipped away
from the ball.
"Who Is she?' they asked one an
other. - ' ;
An Ill-natured person answered the
question in her significant way.
"Three Jeweled necklaces have re
cently disappeared from rooms of
guests," she said.
Covington heard the words.
"Let's get out Into fresh air," he
said to Bertie.
In the gardens the men talked the
thing over.
"It's darned queer," mused Bertie,
"that Miss Oale Is so keen on keep
ing herself secret?so to speak; most
attractive little lady, too, that I have
ever met. If It were not for Lady
Kitty, now?"
"If Miss Gale prefers to keep to
herself, that's her privilege," Richard
curtly retorted.
The music ceased, the guests had
long since sought their apartments,
while the friends lingered in the gar
den over their cigars.
Suddenly Dick leaned forward with
an exclamation; down an outer stair
way from the ballroom balcony, a
slight, white dad figure was descend
ing. In the moonlight Gale's face was
plainly distinguishable. Beneath the
fringe of her Scarf, something half
concealed glittered. Bertie muttered,
as Richard1 rushed toward the girl. At
sight of him, Ann started, then smiled
In gsual composure.
"Well?" she asked blm.
f "It Is I," he said breathlessly, "who
ask the question. The hour Is very
late, Ann; you are alone," he glanced
up to the balcony whence she had
"I fell asleep on the rest room ;
coach," Ann pleasantly explained,
"an<Kwhen they locked the ball-room,
they locked me In. So I climbed out
through the balcony window, tfhd here
I am."
"Ann!" distress was In Richard's
tone. Don't yon think you owe It to
me to tell me something about your
self?
"I have loved you as you desired?'
unquestioning. Now, I ask you to be
my wife."
"Now?" repeated the girl softly?
she paused.
"I have told you of my humbleness
Richard, but I think I have never been
so humble as now, before your true
lore."
From the fold of her scarf, she drew
her own small glistening fan. "I am
just a journalist person, Richard, sent
after the story that others failed In
getting." The laughter light came
back to Ann's dark eyes.
eft would be a good story, Richard,
with the titled lady engaged to Mr. j
Saunders, Instead of you. But I will
let the scoop go, because, well, just
because," ended Ann happily. Rich
ard's arms were around her.
NUMBER 11567
TREASURY DEPARTMENT
Oft* of Comptroller of Carrvacy
Washington, D. C., Doe. 23, 1919.
Whereas by satisfactory evidence
presented to the undersigned it has
been made to appear that
THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK
OF MURFREE8B0R0
In the town of Murfreeesboro, in
the County of Hertford and State of
North Carolina, has complied with
all the provisions of the Statutes of
the United States required to be com
plied with before an association shall
be authorised to commence the busi
ness of banking.
NOW THEREFORE, I, John Skel
ton Williams, Comptrollerwf the Cur J
ya, do hereby certify that
?rtffE FIRST NATIONAL BANK
OF MURFREESBOfeO
In the County of Hertford, and the
State of North Carolina is authorised
to commence the business of banking
as provided in Section Fifty one hun
dred and sixty-nine of the Revised
Statutes of the United States
Conversion ef the Citizens Bank at
Murlieesbofb, N. C.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF wit
ness my hand and seal of office this
twenty-third day of December, 1919.
JNO. SKELTON WILLIAMS,
5-12-8t. Comptroller of Currency
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5Thousands of women have suffered
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