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(By Jame* Franklin)
RACKETS, is a new word in
the dictionary, recently coined to
denote a forcible regimentation
without regard to any laws or
other conditions, and is also used
in describing some other practi
ces built up through long custom
and usuages. In Stokes county
with its rural environment and
staid racial grouping, the citizens
are unfamiliar with the "num
bers", "bookies" and the many
lesser rackets which touch the
lives of almost every citizen |
daily in the populous sections ofj
northeastern states. It took the
G-Men to disclose actual con- j
ditions and the collection of
millions of dollars under the
noses of unsuspecting officials.'
However, many things exist
wheh are unfair and pass un- 1
notced because of having be
come "Common" from long usage
and practice and a general ig
norance of the inside workings.
Our present system of market
ing tobacco is one of these
rackets of long slow growth,
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touching the lives of thousands
of struggling farmers in this
section. The toll taken and
manner in which it is taken js
comparable to the "artichoke
racket" in New York and the
"milk racket in Chicago".
To clearly understand the
situation it is well to look into
the history of tobacco marketing
here. At first, each farmer pro
cessed his own crop. Each farm
and plantation had a tobacco
prize, an enormous hand made
wooden screw operated by a long
sweep drawn by an ox or a mule.
The last one hereabouts is on
the plantation of Mr. John Neal
northeast of Meadows. Fifty
years agothere were no ware
houses and about that time the
first tobacco factories sprang up
in every little town and cross
road village. They had crude but
better methods and processes
than the farmers. Standardized
brands and advertising of to
bacco and the tim tage were born
then. The farmer bought his to
bacco direct to these little
factories and sold it in a man to
man deal. In those days there
were two thriving tobacco
factories in Danbury. Fayette
Smith's and Pepper Brothers, and
THE PAMWnjT REPORTER
the citizen driving up main street
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in his buggy was always met by
the enchanting perfume of Lady
Nictotine, arising from ( the full
packing houses where, the weed
mellowed.
Heavy advertising to establish
favorite brands,... new, patented
processes , and ~, machinery
allowed certain progressive fac
tories a monopoly . starting about
forty years ago, soon closed thou
sands of small factories and gavo
birth to the present warehouse
system. As the fewer factories
became larger the sales became
fortty wareehouse system'lase m
centralized in a few places t with
warehouses to handle larger and
larger volumes.
A serious mistake seems to
have been made when the
factories allowed independent in
terests to establish and operate
the tobacco warehouses. Until to-
day the warehouses are controll
ed by neither the factory or the
farmer, but the factory helps by
furnishing buyers, because it
means that the factory can save
great expense over the method
of sending buyers out to deal
directly with the farmers. Then
again, under the auction system
in warehouses, with so few buy-
ers and no direct dealing with
the farmer, there certainly exists
a tendency to agree upon prices
advantageous to the buyers.
However, it is difficult to deter
mine that the factory has been
materially benefited by the auc
tion warehouse system of selling
tobacco.
Lancaster county, Pennsylvania
is the largest tobacco growing
county in the world, marketing
as high as 42 million pounds in
a year without warehouses
directly to hundreds of cigar and
tobie factories in three states.
They operate under about the
same conditions as existed here
fifty years ago. Their tobacco
varies very little from an aver
age of 80 cents a pound from
year to year.
It is purposive that a racket
, takes a toll for a service that 't
I does not render and that is why
the present tobacco marketing
system is called a racket. Large
warehouses, representing millions
invested in highest priced city
properties are maintained all the
year by giving the farmer for
only ninety days a questionable
chance to get the actual value of
his tobacco crop. The farmer
pays it all. Here before us is a
warehouse bill of a farmer who
has just sold 7000 pounds of good
tobacco. He occupied 120 square
feet of floor space in the ware-
house for 1 hour and 40 minutes |
and paid over SBO.OO rental for
that time. He paid the auctioneer
at the rate of $70.00 an hour for
his time in selling this tobacdo,
also othe r charges totaling 3 per
cent, of all his tobacco brought.
Stokes county farmers pay ware
houses nearly twice as much for
selling their tobacco each year
as it costs the taxpayers to run
the county. Twice as much as all \
the taxes of the county, and
they get so little for their 3 per
cent, that we may positively
brand the warehouse system as a
racket.
The solution, some experts say,
is to have the manufacturers tes-
I
tablish the exact grading of to-
I
bacco and indicate their demand
for the different grades and
types of tobacco and then pro
vide government owned storage
houses with licensed graders and
sorters to handle the crop. The
3 percent taken from the farmers
now will pay for this, or the ex
penses can be taken from the
topheavy internal revenue taxes
imposed on tobacco products, of
ten amounting to over 50 per
cent, of the retailing price and
to as much as 60 cent* a pound
on tobacco which the farmer has
sold for 15 cents.
Stokes Boys
Enlist In Army
The Reporter has received
from Col. T. H. Lowe, recruiting
officer for the U. S. regular
army at Atlanta, Ga., a list of
Stokes county boys who have
recently joined the army.
The list follows:
Oather K. Priddy, Lawsonville,
N. C., enlisted at Fort Bragg,
North Carolina, on November
14, 1936, for Infantry, Second
Corps Area.
Joe D. Wilson, Sandy Ridge,
N. C., enlisted at Fort Bragg, N.
C., on November 13, 1936, for
Infantry, Second Corps Area.
Weldon E. Rhodes, Lawsonville,
North Carolina, enlisted at Fort
Bragg, North Carolina, on
November 17, 1936, for Infantry,
First Corps Area.
Thomas E. Nelson, Lawsonville,
Stokes County, N. C., enlisted
at Fort Bragg, N. C., on
November 13, 1936, for Infantry,
First Corps Area.
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county.
Banner Warehouse
E. J. DAVIS, Propr.
MARTINSVILLE, VA.
Banner Warehouse, Martinsville, Va. and its entire force wish to extend Thanksgiving
greetings and best wishes for the generous patronage given as so far on the 1936 crop.
We want you to know we feel very grateful to all of you who have sold with us and to
also inform you we have led most all our competitive markets, taking into consideration
grade for grade. Our market resumes sales Monday, Nov. 80th and we predict prices to
be just as good on the balance of the crop. However we would advise prompt sales on
balance on hand. Our Sales run as follows: Monday, Nov. 80th, 2nd; Tuesday, Dec. Ist,
Ist; Wed 2nd, 2nd; Thursday 3rd, Ist; Friday 4th, 2nd—We give yon a few sales taken at
random just to show the rnn of prices. Bring us your next load.
Waller & Witcher— C. W. Priddy— Davis & Eaden— 44 @ .40
474 @ - 35 76 @ .35 20 @ .37 140 @ -28
420 @ .33 54 @ .36 66 @ .30 ' 50 @ -35
Robert Joyce— 176 @ 32 96 @ .45 64 @ -3?
30 ® .40 444 @ 28 "6 @ .60 W. K. EHlngton
-52 @ .42 J? ® 100 @ 39 230 (ffi .40
10 @ .56 ® „ L. P. Overby— 50 @ .41
90 @ .47 d 4 ® •*' 100 @ .30 . 252 @ .37
132 @ .47 J. A. Shepherd— 66 @ .40 *• I* Aaron—
J. S. Joyce- , ® ,43 J. C. Jefferson- @ -* 7
44 @ 35 154 ® -38 PnrH rih @ ' 44
126 (S) .40 Andrews & Oanley— 144 @ .41 son—
-144 (5) .35 , 74 (a) .35 232 @ .46 J 6O ® - 28
30 (a) .45 170 (a) .44 144 @ .38 144 ® - 35
Meadows— M. T. Draper— 80 ® 52 p. l. Vernon—
-440 (ft) .44 56 fit} .40 Boles Jb Chilton—
-286 @ .30 180 @ .40 j 44 @ .45 410 @ ' 3o
AUBREY FOWLER, Salesman
CLYDE JOYCE, RUFUS WOODS, Solicitors
NOTICE OF SALE
By virtue of an order of the
clerk of the superior court of
Stokes county, • North Carolina,
rendered on Monday,' November 2,
1936, in the special proceeding
entitled "Mrs. J. M. Gordon,
Eleanor Apperson, et al., vs. Wm.
L. Vest, et al, the same being
number 1242 oti the Special Pro
ceeding Docket of said county,
the undersigned commissioner
will, ■'on
Saturday, December 5, 193$
at the hour of two o'clock p. m.,
on the premises of the late Jan.
S. Scaub, at the home-place, and
/ or at other places on the pre
mises hereinafter described, at
said time and place to be an
nounced, offer at public sale to
the highest bidder for cash, sub
ject to the confirmation of the
court, the following described
lands, to wit:
First Tract: Lying and being
in Yadkin township, Stokes
county, North Carolina, about
two miles southwest of the town
of King, N. C., being a part of
the Jas. S. Schaub farm: Begin
ning at a stone in Hooker's line,
and runs south 50 degrees east
12.72 chains to a stone; thence
north 59 degrees east 2.60 chains
to a white oak; thence south 26
degrees and 40' eaat 13.84 chains
to a stake on north side of road:
thence south 44 degrees 30' east
9 chains to an iron stake; thence
north 73 degrees 20' east 11.22
chains to a cedar; thence south
70 degrees east 4 chains to an
iron stake: thence south 43 deg.
45' east 8.73 chains to an iron
stake; thence south 70 degrees
30' east 3.76 chains to a stone;
thence south 4 degrees 25' west
9.'i7 chains to a stone; thence
south 68 degrees west 5.19
chains to a stone; thence west
6.35 chains to creek; thence
south 30 degrees west 6.81 chains
to ford; thence south 30 degrees
30' west 2.16 chains; thence
north 84 degrees west 1.44 chains
thence north 38 degrees 30' west
34.09 to a black oak;
thence north 60 degrees west
22.30 chains to a stone; thence
south 87 degrees 30' east 3.35
chains to a stone; thence north
1 degree east 9.80 chains to a
pine and hickory; thence south
84 degrees 15' east 5.75 chains
degrees 30' east 6 chains to a
1 stoneT thence north 22 dfegrees
30' east 50 links to the begin
ning, containing 109.1 acres,
more or less.
to a stone; thence north 30
Second Tract: Beginning at a
white oak in Roger Calloway'3
line, and runs north 59 degrees
east 11 chains to a stone in
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THUBSDAY, DEO. % 1956
Meadows' line; thence south 62
degrees east 26.18 chains to a
stone in Meadows line; thence
south 17 degrees 30' west 19.96
chains to an iron stake; thence
north 43 degrees 45' west on a
new line 8.73 chains to an iron
stake; thence north 70 degrees
west 4 chains to a cedar; thence
south 73 degrees 20' west. 4.22
chains to an iron stake at road;
thence north 44 degrees 30' west
9 chains to an iron stake; thence
north 26 degrees 40' west* 13.84
chains to the beginning, contain
ing 53.9 acres, more or less.
This November 2, 1936.
N. F. KEIGER,
11 5 4t Commissioner.
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