Thursday, February 2, 1928 INDUSIRY HilPi ASRICULTURE | TO BUiUi BP THE SMALL TOWN Decentralization of Manufacturing Erings Markets for Products Closer to the Farm—Gives Employment and Better Standards of Living to Rural Communities, By T. R. PRESTON President, American Bankers Association NO class of people has been more diligent in trying so under stand the agricultural problem than the bankers of this country. The agricultural problem is a real problem and de mands the best thought of everyone. , This L .. . .... country cannot continue along happy lines 8 with only sections of the country prosperous.' Prosperity must be passed around if any body is long to enjoy it. This question can not be solved by the farmers alone, but the majority opinion is that there is no legisla tive remedy for agriculture. It is an eco nomic question pure and simple and must be worked out accordingly. A few years ago it was contended that agriculture did not have sufficient credit facilities. That proposition was often made a political question. Ido not presume there are many who wiil question the fact that agriculture now has ample credit facilities. Mixing Farms and Factories It is a fact that no community and no t. R..PR.ESTON state has ever become great purely from agriculture. It is not to the interest of New York and other great centers to see the small communities and the agricultural sections losing their wealth and importance. In the end it will react upon them to their disadvantage. There seems to me a real remedy for these small communities and also for agriculture. This remedy, which i-3 the mixing of industry with agricul ture, is now being applied in many lo calities with satisfactory results. Industry and agriculture are better balanced in Ohio, North Carolina and Pennsylvania than in any other states of the Union, and in these states there is no serious agricultural prob lem and we hear little complaint from the farmers. This mixing of industry Mixing Industry With Agriculture Means Prosperity for Rural Districts and agriculture is called by some de centralization of industry. I would not suggest that manufac turing institutions move from tho cities to the small villages, but 1 do think it would be better for this coun try for future industries to be placed in these small villages rather than to be further congested in the great centers. This would in part also be a solution of our labor problem. The bringing of industries to small vil lages increases the market for agri cultural products, gives employment to surplus la ! ior. elevates the stand ards of living, increases public reve nue, reduces taxes and vastly increases educational facilities. Two Striking Examples I believe 1 can give you two strik ACID STOMACH ! RUINS APPETITE . I v — ! ! Thin, pale people—the despondem sort, who never have an appetite, an;, complain of headaches, indigestion, diz- i ziness, biliousness, usually have too ( to-.u-h acid in their stomach. And unless j they displace it, any food they eat turn-; into sour bile and foul gases, which i poison their system. Pape's Diapepsin dissolves that poi- j sonous acid, sweetens the stomach and; digests your meals. Many thousands of peopl e have brought ha'dc the appetite of til eir youth and gained weight simply j hv chewing one of the pleasant tablets ! of Pape’s Diapensin after meals. It does what it promises. That's the ' reason 5 million packages are used a j year—ask vour nearest t ibr it ! > - ■ ing examples from my own state to prove this proposition, and I mention these because 1 am more familiar with conditions there than elsewhere. Twelve years ago Kingsport, Ten nessee, had a population of about one thousand. Great industries like a large camera company, a big cement plant and a number of other indus tries were located there partly through the influence of an outstanding New York business man. In a little more than twelve years these have broughi the population of that city up to seventeen thousand. Just a few miles away, at Elizabethton, they are build ing a great rayon plant, the first unit to cost $5,000,000. The population of that town is now two thousand, but it is estimated that this will be multi ! plied by five in less than two years It is stated that the total investment in manufacturing industry in that com munity within a period of five years J will probably reach $50,000,000. The balancing of industry and agri ’ culture will solve most of our so-called ! agricultural problems and we will not need such political measures as will in ■ my opinion, do harm if enacted to the I very class they pretend to benefit. GULF ITEMS • The Easter Star order of Goldstar, invited the Masons and their wives to Goldston Friday night to a sup per and entertainment. Those who attended from here were as follows: Dr. and Mrs. Palmer, Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Moore, Mr. and Mrs. D. E. Murchison, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. John son and B. A. Asborne. All reported a good time and partook so much ot the bountiful feast we are afraid they won’t be able to go again soon. Several officers and members of BYPU of Bethany Baptist church attended the special BYPU. program at Siler City Baptist church Sunday ! afternoon 3 o’clock. They report a | very instructive and inspiring pro gram. Miss May Asborne of this place and Mrs. J. S. Lilly of Raleigh vis -1 ited in Goldsboro a few clays last week. Mr. G. E. Oldham who was cav ; ried to C. C. hospital at Sanford | three weeks ago for treatment is i improving and we hope may soon be at home with his family and friends. Miss Ma r y L. Palmer of Durham spent the week-end with home folk. | • Mr Clay Grubb of Wake Forest i college spent the week-end with his i sisters. Mesdames A. J. Little and ! R. T. Beck. Mesdames Alton Jordan and Free man Smith of Durham, visited Mrs. G. P. Murch’son Thursday afternoon i after attending the funeral at Bus -1 fold of their aunt, Mrs. Emily Web j ster, who was struck by a car in ! Gieensboro Monday p. m. was car i ried to hospital for treatment, but | died Tuesday night. j SHOWING OFF THE NEW FORD | The editor had the privilege of i accompanying Mr. J. C. Weeks in his now Fo.d on quite a round Thursday afternoon. The long-looked for sample arrived Wednesday, and Mr. Weeks was btsv the balance of the weei: demonstrating it here and at other points in the county. The first stop was at Coal Glenn, where Mr. Howard Butier and num ber of employees of the mine and Mr. Matthews manager of the store looked it over. And while the Ford held the attention largely, the Re cord man did not altogether neglect the business of getting subscribers. Four or five new names were put on here, and at the Carolina Fire proofing Company, the tile and brick plant, the same, processes were gone through. Gulf also saw the new car, as did Goldston and Bear Creek. The sample is a- Tudor sedan, and is a beauty. It goes like forty and can turn in an ordinary road. Mr.. David Weeks, a brother oi the Fdird man, who had come in the day before from New Jersey, where he has been employed by the Stan dard Oil Co., also was a member so the exploring party. Mr. Weeks hopes to begin his de liveries next month and to gradu ally increase them during the year. D. E. OVERBY SUCCEEDS SUPT. H. L. LONGNECKER Mr. H. L. Longnecker, who has so ably managed the Carolina Fireproof Brick and Tile plant at Gulf, has been promoted to the superinten dency of all the business of the Hood Brick Company, and has his headquartres at Charlotte. He is succeeded as superintendent of the Gulf plant by Mr. D. E. Overby, who has been in charge of the plant at Monroe. Mr. Overby came a week ago, and will move his family to the plant as soon as Mr. Long necker has vacated the superinten MOTHER j f A Cross, Feverish Child is Bilious, ) t Constipated j Every mother realizes, after giving her children '‘California Fig Syrup.’ 5 that this is their ideal laxative, be cause they love its pleasant taste and it thoroughly cleanses the tender little stomach, liver and bowels without griping. When cross, irritable, feverish, or breath is bad, stomach sour, look at the tongue, mother! If coated, give a teaspoonful of this harmless, “fruity laxative, 55 and in a few hours all the foul, constipated waste, sour bile and undigested food passes out of the bowels, and you have a well, playful child again. When the little system is full of cold, throat sore, has stomach-ache, diarrhoea, indigestion, colic—remember, a good “inside cleansing 55 should always be the first treatment given. Millions of mothers keep “California Fig Syrup” handy; they know a tea epoonful today saves a sick child to morrow. Ask your druggist for a bot tle of “California Fig Syrup. 55 which baa directions for babies, children of TURN IT AROUND ... . ; i People SPEND money on the installment plan, for that is an easy way to buy things without paying all at once. Why not turn the plan around? Why not SAVE money on the installment plan? It can be done by putting a little deposit in our Bank each month. In time there will be a nice little nest egg that will be earning you something. Plan to SAVE instead of SPEND. It can be done. THE BANK of GOLDSTON HUGH WOMBLE, Pre*. T. W. GOLDSTON Cashier GOLDSTON, N. 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