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IHEI> A N 151 RVRKI» ORT K R
DAMU KY. X. C.
N. E. and E- P. PEI'PER. Publishers.
WEDNESDAY. (H TOBER 1. 1»:tO.
The Leader.
In ewr> iMx.it crisis of hist :i> there has de
veloped i loader. a super-man who i- able t.>
hi'/t tlu % »ii; and bla-t out tin* trail that win'»-•
t( . (he land of promise. In the universe there
i- ->m_' power that hears the try of the human
heart: "I "ill lill up mine eves unto the hill* (
lit m 1 rtencc camel h my help.
h begin- to look like tobacco farm ng h:ts
found a friend and a leader, and that he come- (
fri m the gleaming hili- «*1 the (atavvba Max
(I;ir(in?r. (icvenior ol North ( aiolioa.
Since these turbuient tobacco da\s many (
tale- have been told. One of the most interest- ,
in, comes out of Raleigh. and it i- told on th.«
Guvern.ir: One >| his most intimate Irieads ap- j,
preached him and advised that he put the soil (
pedal en this trust stull'. "You lay oil' this ,
price-axing hulluh-iIM.. It will hurt your
chances for the Set-ate later on with some oi
the big n.mpanies."
Max i- a football player. has no nerves, can
look .nrough }ou with hi> grav eyes, and is i
Baptist in good standing. So he replied:
"To heil with the Senate. The people are
suffering."
In the da> s not -o far agone. there was an
impression in some 'manors that the Governor
lav close to the big interests, and was the owner
of a lar fie block of stock in one of the tobacco,
companies. ~ *■-- , *■
Ij«:t today thi- feeling has melted like a vapoi j
oi the morning. and now the one powerful and
xircere friend of farming in North Carol na is
lint!- !.cdlj esteemed to be this strapping young
ufrom the tat ba hills, who said to the
f t ;rnv.-i«. at Raleigh: "I will use the entire re- ;
si,a. e- of the State to help."
!'he Governor by hi> live-at-home campaign (
i> ~to have already 'saved the farmers of the
stale more than 1!' million dollars in the cost j
of l od»tulT- which otherwise they would have
imported.
Ant! now standing out on the horizon ol the
penpk'V conscii rsness like the harvest moon
at full i- lh:«. fad: Mas Gardneer Vis broken
ln-.-e something. Tobacco is getting higher.
!f, forsooth, out of the bedlam and the chaos,
•a mottling delinite and permanently helplul
oM;|ves. to whim will the chorus of the praises
rin^:
To Max Gardner of the hills,
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The Slimy Trail of Tammany.
Th > cock-and-bull stories emanating from Ny?
c m mil tee circles at Washington are creating
-1 n*j amusement in North ( arolina, but more
winder that if so much came to North
Carolina to beat Simmons, who got it '.' 'I he
[i'icinct workers in Stokes who had their ttouble
!'••• their pain-, would like to assist the N>e in
vestigators in the hunt.
Another t liin.u" has always seemed curious ami
j strange to us. and il is th.'s: II Haskol)
had so much money to spend to defeat Simmons,
why didn't he use more of it in the |
hat tie to elect A 1 Smith, the arch-head of the
Pope's ring in New York. Looks like the elec
t;, : . ,|' a President would he vastly of more mom
ent than the defeat of a Senator. To our best
knowledge, the national campaign committee
never sent enough money into North (arolina to
buy postage stamps and pay tor printing.
The Nye committee propaganda is of course
sent out by the Republican campaign committer
at Washington with the intent of prejudicing
the supporters of Senator Simmons in North
Carolina and inducing them to support Pritchard
for the Senate, as well as to help elect some
Republican congressmen.
With this view of it. a grain of salt is in order
before swallowing.
Your Uncle to the Rescue.
We tune no monopoly on panics. Down in
Cuba the other day they threw a linancial lit over
some fool liasco or other, and before the sun
could go down two or three big banks tailed.
The situation was developing nto an alarmin;
stage, wh.n an airplane from the Atlanta. Ga..
fedcrrl reserve bank arrived with 2(1 million
•rood Vmerican bucks en hoard, and across its
ensign, fluttering in the breeze, this: "Havana,
lone at "or." This acted like a huge dose of
morph a hypdermically administered. Ihe
pulses ol the excited negroes slowed down to
sub-normal.
I nclc Sam. he dceth things when he takcth a
notion. With a line irony, as if paying the
Cuban- hack in good coin for the monsoons the>
send us. he never stopped uniil he had trans
planted i-"> million dollars across that fifl mile- j
of water, and the last seen ol that Cuban panic
it was scudding cut the oiling I ke a yellow cur
with a pork-and-beans can tied to its tail.
There'll never be another panic in Cuba as long
as the protecting wing ol the I nited 'State
federal reserve system hi.vers over the island.
C\ W. Gold On Advertising.
C. W. (odd. vice-president and treasurer of
the Jefferson Standard Life Insurance Co.. of
(ireensbi.ro. which is one of the South's mo.-:
1 utstanding business concerns, delivers him- :
self of some interesting observations on adver- j
lising. Ilear him:
Mr. Gold says the automobile people are
spending .*{>>.ooo.ooo per year in advertising
their products; the tobacco manufacturers
>27.500.000; makers of drugs and toilet prep
nations SO 1.000.000; foods and beverages
1 'i 17.000.000. etc. He notes the wonderful suc
cess of these manufacturers vvha are telling the I
1 world about their wares, and selling them. He |
! .-alls on the insurance people, who have not
I pent so much comparatively, to loosen up and
invest more heavi y in printer's ink. and they
will see themselves prosper accordingly.
.Ylr. Gold advises that dailies, weeklies and
magazines be used, and doubts not the results.
A merchant who invested his money in goods
and then put them in a closet, keeping their
existence a secret from the public, could not
count on sales, it is just in proportion that as
he lets the world know about his bargians tl.*tl
he sells his goods.
Buy Land.
Now it is giten up by everybody with a good
head, is the time to buy land. It is said that a J
Jew never buys things when ether people are .
buying, but he looks for quiet bargains. In the 1
Sail of !!)!!> everybody was buying. That was
the time when the Jew stayed out of the market.
Now is his time, if he means to come «n. Farm
ing is at its lowest ebb. and good acres can be
had for a song. The price is almost as low an
it was when oid Mr. Young—the ancestor of our
townsman. 1,. J. Young, and the first settlor ol
Stokes county—purchased a small township in
the lower part of the county for a barlow kntfe.
.and a bull calf. If the co-ops put "er over, and
tobacco sky-rockets again, alluvia will be at a
premium, homesteads will be scarce as hen •»
teeth, and you will be (Sorry you didn t speak.
Look out for the Jews.
Blessing in Disguise.
Cotton farmers in an Alabama town built a
monument to the boll weevil. They never
achieved independence until the pest came and
put them out of business, and learned them not
THE DANBURY REPORTER
to depend on cotton. They turned their atten
tion to diversified farming, and now they ar»
independent.
The Stokes county farmers who hare pinned
their faiths to tobacco are out of luck, and will
always be as lung as they depend on a one-crop
system. Of course the drouth this year has
wreaked great damage, but drouths do not come
every year. Prepare for the future now bv
scattering your resources. Hog and hominy,
vegetables, poultry and cattle—these will pull
you out of the hole, coupled with wise cultiva
tion of tobacco.
The Hungry Hun.
Reports from Germany indicate that thj
fascists, led by Adolph Hitler, are about to
become predominant in the new reichstag. being
now second only to the Socialists in numbers.
And what is the policy of the Hitlerites? The
conquest of Russia.
Hitler in his book called "My Fight" makes
no bones about his plan. He'says the German
nation must take over Russia or perish. The
German people must expand or die.
On account of the European combinations on
the west—backed consciously or unconsciously
by America—Germany nr+st keep her bounds.
Rut on the East, the way is open. The Bolshe
viks are all chaos, and can prove no match to the
Teuton tiger when the time becomes ripe to
spring.
And Ihen the world can again sit up and take
notice.
New Co-Op C ontract.
We have not seen one ol the new co-op con
tracts which the farmers are asked to sign. I n
'iw this contract contains a clause enforcing re
duced acreage, the new co-op plan will be a fail-
The supply of tobacco in the world steadilv
increases in the face of lower prices year after
year, and despite the increase in consumption.
The Farm To-
Market Roads
Recently the Federal govern
ment. as part of its drouth re
lief program in variods sections
of the country, advanced four
months Federal road money,
with the request that vvcrk be
| started as soon as possible .«'•
as to relieve and give employ
ment to farmers in the damag
ed areas. The American Farm
! Bureau Federation is urging
i State Farm Bureau officials to
co-operate in every manner
with state highway depart
ments in seeing that proper i
localities and individuals re
ceive needed aid.
This will tide many families
lever a -lack period and prevent
■or alleviate much suffering.
. Every farm and every commun
ity in the sections t> which
| money lias been advanced will
benefit from stimulated road
construction. Long after the
the drought has been forgotten,
the roads will be arteries i
i commerce, bringing prosperity
I to a multitude cf farms.
J Another encouraging an
nouncement came last month
from the Department of Agri
culture, which stated that the
improved -15,431 miles cf local
counties of the United States
and county roads in 1929. at a
cost of more than SBOO,OOO.
When a majority of farms
are served by water-proof sur-
Three years»ago Georgia made (>0 million pounds.
Now the Cracker Stale conies up with more than
100 millions, although the price has been dis
couraging to the growers down there, as here.
The Federal farm hoard may have helped
farming, but the benelit is nowhere visible. Cot
ton is fearfully low, wheat down to zero, in
Kentucky the price (in hurley has been good,
owing to three or four short crops, reducing the
-tucks to low levels.
The Federal government will loan our tobacco
fanner,s money if they will organize. Will these
loans have to be paid hack? Undoubtedly, with
interest. How can loans help the price? They
; a an't. the farmers will go on and steadily in
crease their acreage, laboring under the delusion
i'hat the government will take care of them. If
the government's policy led the wheat-growers
into the jaws of disaster, where will it lead
tobacco growers?
A co-op contract that COMPELS reduction of
acreage avs a condition precedent to loans, will
work, provided the four great tobacco State-,
sign it. - .
liold, Naughty Visitor.
Last niyht when dusk had come, and the
of the soft night had fallen on the forest: whe.i
the jay-bird had tucked his wing and dreamed
in the thicket, and only the starshine gave a
subdued light through the trails of the woods,
a bold, bad visitor came. It was the Frost King,
and he tarried awhile, holding the sweet, spry
things in his cold embrace, and leaving the mark
of his painted lips on their forms.
Believe it or not, we can prove it today by ttu*
blushes (if the sweet-gum and the maple, and
the faint coloring coming to madamoiselle Sour
wood. .Maybe the visitor kissed, too. that staid
and sedate old maid, the I'ine. hut the evidence
will not support this theory, because from her
branches rustle chilling resentful breezes, in
dicating displeasure and disappointment.
laced. year-round farm-to
market highways, we will ha v "
taken a long step toward the
solution of agricultural prob
lems.—Ex.
Political Patent
Medicine.
, There seems to be a pretty
general opinion in political
circles that most any kind of an I
attack on the "power trust"— j
no one has yet been able to
I
point out just who comlpri'ses |
the trust—is good medicine!
for making votes.
Chairman Carlisle of the-
Niagara Hudson Power Cor
poration, has a peculiar way o*'
going right into the socialist
camp when they advocate pub
lic ownership of electric pow.T
in the territory of his compan-
I.
j les.
He recently told the people
of Gouverneur, New York, a
town which his company serves,
that the matter of their collec
tively going into the business
of selling light, heat and power
is "not political, but wholly
.commie." He advised a meet
ing of all the citizens of Gouv
jerneur at which time he asked
I permission to present "all the
i facts and the whole truth,"
1 and suggested that the critics
of the power company be in
vite I to such a j a' oering.
' Commenting on the situation,
■ the Boston News Bureau says:
WEDNESDAY, OCT. 1. 19:50.
One of our current American
troubles is the extent to whici
politicians who have little light
and much darkness to dispense
regarding public utilities, haw
been vociferous on the subject.
Il is interesting to note that
in New York State only .'>2 of
11,440 public service commis
sion rulings since 1021 have
been contested by utilities in
court, and three in Federal
Courts, and in few instances
was the commission reversed.
Evidently there is no break
down of public utility regula
tion to cause public alarm.
Also the utilities wculd
seem to have not been recalci
trant. The rulings made by
the commissions do not cover
any instances of voluntary rate
| cuts or other public benefits for
better and cheaper service.
Are not some of our politic
ians emulating the mountain
that brought forth the mou.-v,
in their endeavor to make an
issue out of the public utility
question?
] The North Carolina tobacco
organization committee in ses
sion at Raleigh, Monday adopt
ed a "100-per cent delivery"
contract for a co-operative and
voted that a Sign-up be started
j as soon as necessary arrange
ments can be completed. Fort/
cf the 50 tobacco producing
counties of the state were re
ported at the committee meet-