THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2»th, 1922
COOPERATIVES WIN
FIGHT IN COUKT
«i hp—Hibi AfdMl Oat
ckl* Scltfag Of TtkMM
Plymouth, N. C„ Oct. Ill Tohaceo
— inmhm wwb today the flnt
mand of Mi fight to )m«i the eon
Mt of the Tri-Btato Tobacco Grow
an' Association In North CaiwMsa
declared legally binding on membera.
Judge Frank Dantala who is pr»
•Mlnf o*ar Washington county coon
here thla waalr, tMa afternoon an
aeancsd ha aroaid continue tha In
junction nalnWnf L A. Marrall,
W. T. Jonaa, Naah county tobacco
gresrar, fro* selling their tobacco
outside of tha association. Tha par
autnent Injunction la la •uhatantlally
tha lama tarms aa tha temporary!
restraining order I—id by Judge Ly
on several waaka ago.
Judge Daniala required tha tobacco
aaaoeiation to furnish a four thoua
and dollar bond in aach caa* to pro
tect tha iotaraat of the defsndaata,
which waa ronaidarad a reasonable
amount by tha co-oparativee, aa ap
, proximately thirty-thousand pounds
of tobacco la involved in eacM caaa.
The Co-operative! inatitutod suit
against aach of the defendants for
alleged da ma gea to the amount of 6
cents a pound for all tobacco so id by
them outside of the association and
for ooansel fees amounting,' accord
ing to the complaint io |360. These
caaes will take their places on the'
regular court calendar in Nash coun
ty
Meantime the injunctions continue I
in force, and the defendants can dis
pose of no tobacco outside of the
aaaoeiation. The granting of the in
junctions to prevent violations of
the contracts of members of tobacco
aaaoeiation Is of far more importance,
however, than securing damages for
tobacco sold outside the association
aa this will enforce delivery of to
bacco to the aaaoeiation by members,
if Judge Daniels la upheld by the
lapwme Court, and In any event
deliverlea caa l» enforced until the
hfefter Court passes on the question, i
Co-operativea are confident that the
lower ceurt will be sustained.
That an appeal will be taken to
the Supreme court waa understood
from the beginning of tha legal
fight, but tha granting of ths in
junctions today gtvaa ths co-opera
tives a substantial advantage aa the
legal enforciblltty of ths contracts
with members Is sstabliahed and can
ssly ha overthrown through aa ad
verse deeiaion by tha higher courts,
and the co-operatives an given legal
standing far this season In any event
aa it srill (a aome time before tha
higher can paaa on H.
The co-operatives hava bean vary
confidant that tha legality of tha
eootract would be upheld, by Judge
Daniala after tha three-day hearing
In NaahvMle last week when every
flail of the subject was discussed
at length by able eouael.
At tha conclusion of the evidence
offered in the two esses, Judge Dan
iala told counsel for both sidss that
tha main question In his mind was
whether or not the oontracta of the
oo-operstives are valid. The larger
part of the discuaaion hinged on that
point,, and his deeiaion today holds
that it Is valid. I
Standard Oil To Daclare 400
Par Cant Dividend
N«w York, Oct. 11.—Following the
M of other Standard Oil companlea.
Chairman A. C. Bedford, chairman of
tha Standard Oil of New Jeraey, an
nounced today that a ipecial atock
holdera' meeting haa been called for
lVovaasher 8 to act upon a propoaal
ef the director* to increaae the an
tho riied capital atoek of the com
pany from 1110,000,000 to IMS.000,
MM and declare a atoek dividend of
fear new aharea of common atocka
er a 400 per cent atock dividend Tor
each share of common atock now
outstanding The par value of the
aew aharea will he |2ft the aame aa
at preaent
The director* alao explained that:
they felt the ahareholdera ahould he
adviaed that, In view of the require
manta of the company for capital
inraetment, they have no purpoae to
inoraaae the aggragata amount of
dividend diaburaementa at the prea
ant time. The praaent dividend la
an the haaia of >0 par cent annually.
MONEY to loan of, Firat Mortgage
aa good, wall located, farm*. O J.
Denny, wlnaton-Salem. M. C. Cara
Trade Street Branch, Wachovia
Baak aad Trail Co. 10-27-c
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TURNS GUNS UPON "MALE.
FACTORS Of WEALTH r
B*iWr VJmdmtte*M T« SWw By
CoraptriaMi Ttat RepeWka*
Party LtiiUti la Tk l»
tamt Of Tk* MwyaJ CUaa
Against TU Amtp Mm
Spray, Oct. 17.—J. W. Bailey,
of Raleigh, >idnwri tlM democratic
voters of litis community today open
in* the fall ctmptip In tkla Imme
diate territory. Mr. Bailey undertook
to nhow how the republican party haa
legit la ted with a view to paying aff
campaign contribution rather than
for the welfare of the people. The
■tat la teal matter contained In hia
addreaa, ha laid, wai worked out
from a romparlaon of the revenue act
of t»ia with the revenue act of 1M1.
Theee atetemenu ara apparently
significant and would aaam to leave
the republican party In a defenaeleee
poaltlon.
Mr. Bailey quoted from The Con
greasional Record the atory of
Wrlgley, the chawing gum king, who
he laid inveated 126,000 In the re
publican (tarty, and the republican
party promptly repealed the tax upon
hewing gum, thereby saving him on
'hia item alone half a million dollar*.
He attempted to show up the republi
can party haa been utterly perverted
and la actually controlled by thoae
whom Roosevelt termed the "male
factor* of great wealth," and plead
with the democrats In North Caro
lina to keep their party clean, and
to continue the fight in the Intereeta
of the people.
Mr. Bailey paid a tribute to Wood
row Wilson, who he said thaae men
hated and hounded because he would
not yield to them. "They drove
Rooaevelt into exile," he declared.
"They beat Rooaevelt, but they could
not beat Wilson. For eight years
they sought his destruction. At
length he fell in battle, upon the
rampart*, the flag of peace for the
world and freedom for all men in hia
hand*. Than they had their way.
The republican party came in." <
The republican party, ha declared,
haa been able to give the wealthy,
who did not need It, a billion dollara,
"bat not one penny for the boys who
fought the great war at a dollar a
day." The profiteers who contribut
ed to the republican campaign fund
have received minions and hundreda
of milliona ha declared, "but the boys
who saved America and the world
get nothing; the country la too poor
to pay them."
"Our country is tat peril We are
not menaced by the 'Rede.' Wo cm
handle ttym. Wo an Dot menaced
by the I. W. W. Industrial slacker
iira cannot grow to dangaroua pro
portion* la oar American atmosphere.
Wa are not in danger of Bolaheil—
Hut (Ira will be quenched of itself
in time. The .peril of America la the
pur^haae of privilege by man of
great wealth.
"Then ia a gnat and growing
claaa of men in oar country who con
trive to purchaae tax exemption and
commercial privilege of the political
partiee by meana of campaign con
tribution». They elect partiee to
aerve them. They defeat Candida tea
who will not aerve them. They elect
Candida tea who will do their will—
who will give them apaeial and
wealth producing prfvilegee.
"Theae men operate in and upon all
political partiea. Theae men hated
and hounded Wood row Wilaoa into
defeat becaoae ha would not yield to
them. They did not can about the
league of nations. They wanted to
beat Wllaon becaoae he atood in the
way of their thievery. They elected
the republican party in 1M0. They
set up a propaganda in thia country
that footed millions of voter*. They
seised upon ovary poaalble aource of
discontent famed R into flames, or
ganised it and directed it to one end
—the defeat of Wilson and the elec
tion of Harding. They had found
Wilson adament to their wills. They
named Harding at Chicago.
"Theae men wen known to Roose
velt. He called them "malefactors of
gnat wealth." Ha spoke of them aa
the predatory claaa—the claaa that
preys upon the other elasaes. They
drove Rooeevelt into exila. They beat
Roosevelt; but Wilaon they could not
beat. For eight yean they sought
hia destruction. At length 4a fell hi
battle, upon the ramparta, the flag
of peace for the world and freedom
for all man In Ida hands. Than they
had thely way. The republican
party came in.
"We have had now for two yean
a period- wholly devoted to thoee
predatory men, those malefartors of
great wealth. They have ran the
country to M»t themselves.
"TWy km oar Uu lews—
'artff and internal wwnw.
"They bava w msde Um internal
revenue law* that the bo Han haa been
lakanP (root the rick and put upon
thoee of moderate ouam Kara afa
the facta:
"A man srith mi incoma of 9160,009
pay* <2,000 laaa income tax than ha
did undar tha Wilaon administration.
"A man with mi Income of |Mr
000 pay* IS,500 laaa tax than ha did
undar tha Wflaon administration.
"A maa with an Incoma of 9600,
000 pays 118,000 laaa tax than hi
paid undar ttjs Wilaon administration.
"A man with an incomc of ana
million dollar* pay* 1160,000 laaa tax
than ha did undar tha Wilaon admin
istration.
"A man wttk m incoeae of tws mil
lion dollar* pay* 1800,000 laaa tax
than ha did undar* tha Wilaon ad
min iatratton
"A maa with an incoma of fhra
million dollar* pay* 9760,000 laaa tax
than ha did undar tha Wilaon ad
min iatration.
"In addition to thaaa exemption*
granted to tha vary waalthy, tha ra
pubiicana struck off all tax a* on a>
raaa profits of corporation*—that ia
apecial taxaa upon profita in axcaaa
of 20 par rent of capital inveeted. •
"A* a coneequence tha government
ia today ia*uir<« b-">d»—9600,000,000
of them in time of peace. Harding
himaelf *ay* that tha daficit thia year
will ba 9460,000,000 and some think
it will bo a billion. a
"A* a conaequence tha aoldiar*
have been denied compensation. Tha
republican party could five tha
wealthy, who did not need it, a bil
lion dollars. But not one penny for
tha boy* who fought at a dollar a
day. Tha profiteer* who contributed
to tha republican campaign fund have
received itilliona and hundred* of
million*. The boy* who aaved tha
country and tha world get nothing;
the country id too poor to pay tham.
"Secretary Weak*, in tka 1990
campaign, told the profiteer* that R
would ba • good investment to coo
tribute to the republican campaign
fund. It was.
"Um income tax ia not the wily
instance of republican legislation for
tha purposee of rewarding tha cam
paign contributors. Tha new tariff
law la nothing mora or la as than a
avatem of taxation on imports for
tha enrichment, at tha coat of con
sumers. of tha potaah men, tha augar
men, the leather man, the a teal man,
tha woo tan men, tha dye-men and tha
citrus fruit man. The combination
muatared a dough congreeamen and
senators to put through • law that
confsssedly la intended to increase the
riches of Just a few representatives
of special interests. The American
laboring man and tha American farm
er are hearing that the law protects
them. Two years will open their
eyes.
"On this whole subject the story
of Wrigley, the chewing gum king,
throw* i flood of light. I take it
/rota The Congrteaional Record,
pace 14,273:
"During the last campaign Mr.
Wrig ley, the chewing gum king,
made substantial financial contriba
tioiu to the campaign fund. It waa
a splendid .investment. Tbe< republi
can Congreaa promptly repealed the
tax upon chewing gam. The report
of the commissioner of internal re
venue for 1920 show* that in that
year the tax upon chewing gum
manufactured in minoia amounted to
IM1.772.M. Mr. Wrigley ia the on*
large manufacturer fat that state,
and it ia fair to aaaum* that of the
total tax paid in the state he paid
approximately a half million dollar*.
The repeal of the tax tared him thia
amount, and H waa not surprising to
leam from the praaa that at a re
cent meeting of republican l*ad«rs
Mr. Wrigl*y announced that ha was
no orator, but that "money talks?
an rabdfcribed 125,000 and «xpr*s*ed
his willingness to give an additional
126,000 if needed. The facta Indicate
he ought to giv* a much larger ram,
and he probably will.
"Evidently Wrigley belietea that
it pays to contribute aa well aa to
advertise. He took Secretary Week*
at his word. That $25,000 was one
of the beat paying investment* Wrig
ley ever made.
"Ladle* and gentlemen, those are
the evidence* that malefactor* of
great wealth ar* using the republi
can party to exploit our country.
Our laws, our taxation law*, are
made in reward for money, not In
the interest of the common welfare.
These men are not* in politic* for
service, nor for power nor for office
nor for honor. They are in politic*
for «HM|.
"The power of mtnwf la politic#
la the chief parll of to nwiiy |
Let aa not <Uv'«lva outmIvm. Wh«n
•»« • party or • candidate ma tea
politics expensive, imin«4IU«ly tha
power of monay I* unWi And
we muat take note of the fact that
politic* baa bwoM espaneiva ia all
partial, and ia aaarty ad saadidatea.
There ara thousands who take aoMjr
In politica. That* ara - thrniaaaria
who look to tha primariaa as a so area
of COnptMAtklt. T)ltM MM OBfht
to ba told that they ara mUdi
poaalbla tha ruin of owr country
Thay ought to ba told that thay arc
traitor. Thay ought to ba bald hi
tha uaa scorn and contempt aa an
arch is ta
"We know that tha power of mo—y
haa Ukan abaoluta poaaeaaion of tha
republican party. Wa ought to
know that H will attempt to taka
poaseaaion of any party that riaaa to
power. Wa ought to ba proud that
Woftdrow Wilson stood tight yaars
in tha preeidency aa true and strong
and pur# that tha pradatory rlaaaaa
! rama to hata him aa thay have hated
no man in our history. Wa muat call
forth another Ilka him in 1924, and if
wa shall, he will ba elected. Mean
time. let North Carolina democrat*
| keep their party clean. Lot ua make
| it impoaaible to buy rotaa or corrupt
elections In thia state. Lot ua make
; it impoaaible for money to count in
I our primaries and elections."
I
RUBBER AND CIVILIZA
TION
Former Hm Intimate Relation
With L<*tor
How rubber enter* into the usage
of daily life ia described picturesque
ly by Richard H. Tingley in "Our
World." Hs says:
"First of all, to begin at today'*
beginning the rubber people make
the process* of gettihg up and dress
ing comfortable for you each morn
ing. The phqr hi the bath tab ia
rubber. The curtahT around the
shower, the window strip* which
keep out the' cold ajr, are rubber.
The tooth bnishee, shaving brashes,
hair brushes arc set in rubber. The
cork In the ammonia bottle is rubber.
"In the nursety your little daugh
ter wears a rubber bib, and gets her
breakfast from a rubber-nippled
nursing bottle; she plays wKh a
rubber doll. She has her own little
rubber tab, a big rubber apron ia
used in bathing her.
"After all, it"» the flivver* that
make the ratber busings*. About
three-fruartera of all the erode rub
ber goes into the automobile. How
ever, even though the fltrver* do
make the rubber business, the two
arc so interdependent that it would
be jtrtt as true the other way round.
W< wont have twice as many motor
cars till we double the acreage of
rubber. The rubber men made De
troit. If we hadnt gone out and gut
the rubber for them—made it grow
where It never grew before—Detroit
wouldn't be on the map.
"You can't havs automobiles with
out rubber. The canopy is rubberis
ed, there's rubber on the running
board, rubber insulation on the wir
ing. And most important of all, the
tires. In the four tirSs and the spars
one en behind there' are about forty
five pounds of robber It takes
twenty full grown robber trees a tell
year, to produce that much crude
rubber.
"Before 19M half the world's sap
ply of crude robber—all the b*t of
it—cam* from the Amason, where
Pars rubber trees grow wild. In
those days we used about MJMO
tons. Now. although we could on a
lot more, we are actually retting,
about >00,000 tons. And Mne-tenths
of it comes from artificial, cultivated
plantations in ths Dutch and British
East Indies.
"Perhaps you sometimes idly won
der how rubber is made. But you
never really pee the picture. The
i thousands and thousands of "native'
laborers, working in the tempera
ture of s Turkish bath. The scien
tists—chemists and agricultural ex
perts—studying rubber, finding out
what kind of plants give the most
and the best juice with the least
labor. The chaps from our univer
sities, who sit out thsre In ths
jungle, neglecting their own fevers
to study the diseases of rubber, bit
ten raw by mosquitoes while they boil
poisons in test tube* to kill the bugs
' that attack the plants—all this for
the comfort of those who accept tt
ss a nutter of course."
GROWERS SELL TO MG
BUYERS
D i ■ I Hi» Amd hurt CW
pmmUm Trnktrng Titoc.i At
High Priewa
Unlatch, Oct. Id.—The nee— of
Asssriation in ea|Ua« tto t*noo la
now completely minil, according to
information resrhtog llM|i bsad
quartan of the Aseociatien fro*
Kichartl R. Patterson, arnftr at
tha Leaf Deportment 8*iw4»r
New. of tha *4,000.000 pouiui sale
of burtoy tobacao tor »14.000,000 by
tha Barley Tobacco Orower* Co
operative Aseociation
VU fnPr.w. .'11
by an announcement fna the Urf
Dfpartmaat af tha Tobacao Growers*
Co-operative AiiQitithi af Virginia,
North Carolina and Booth Carolina
■ U M A A AMAMf jLtfaaa^la rfi n
in« prariiCMij • »•»/ oonwinc row
panjr and several lisding exporters
arc baying tha tobacco af tha 80,00#
organised growers of tha Carolteaa
and Virginia at prices which, accord
ing to Mr. Patterson are highly
satisfactory aad compare moat favor
ably to thoaa received for tobaceoa
on tha auction floors. Tremendous
deliveries to tha Aaooeiatlon In
North Carolina and Virginia daring
thia weak Save brought tha Mceipts
of tha Aiaociation wall ovar 10,000,
000 pound* within tha past six days,
a Among tha companies which ala
placing orders for this tobacco hand
'tad and gradad by tha new system af
co-operative marketing which has
given aniversial satiafaction to tha
customer* of the Association accord
tng to Director Patterson, are the
following companiaa.
Liggett * Myeea Tobacco Com
pany, The R. J. Reynolds Company,
The Lorillard Company, China
American Tobacco Company, Tha
Old North State, The Universal Laaf
Tobacco Company, DibreU Bros, Inc.,
Tfte John E. Hughe* Company, In
ternational Planters Company, R.
P. Richardson Company of Raids,
villa, N. C., John T. Bagby Company
of, Richmond, Va., Tha Tobacco Pra
ducts Corporation and several large
exporters of bright tobacco.
The Association officials hope to
gain as customers tha one or two
other large domestic companies which
have not made parchaae* from tha
Association op to the prtsint time.
The only other companiaa of impor
tance which have not purchased the
Asaociatioa tobacoa to date are Brit'
tsh companies, Including tha Export
and Imperial companies of Great
Britain.
The hMvy deliveries of the put
week km already proved the satis
faction of the fifty t ho—sad mem
ban from the old belt of North
Carolina and Virginia In the market
ing system and the eaah advances of
the!*, association.
Hundred* of co-operative farmers
from western North Carolina will
enter Winston-Salem about November
ftret whefethe big new warehouse of
the Association will be completed
by P»gft Brother* and Company, j
This will mark the entrance of the
Association into the last (exclusive
stronghold of the auction system in
the Carolines.
The conduct of the suit of the To
bacco Growers'Co-operative Associa
tion against contract breakers has
stirred enthusiasm and routed a new
fighting spirit among the Eastern
Carolina growers which are indicated
by the tncreaaing number of local
organisations and the large deliveries
this week upon eo-operative floors
throughout the eastern halt.
Several growers who admitted to
selling tobacco outside of the Asso
ciation haw voluntarily offered to
pay the five cenUnliquidated dam
ages required for breach of contract
in the marketing agreement, though
la on* case the offending member
stated the amount was saors than
his tobacco brought on the auction
floors.
Since a thousand or more tobacco
Kiowers came to Naafiville this weak
and witnessed the legal battle of
their Association in upholding Its
contract a wave of loyalty has swept
among the organiaed fanners of the
East.
According to dispatches from Ken
tucky 68,000 of the 70,000 members
of the Bur ley Tobacco Growers Co
operative Association will share to
the result ef the sale Oi the pool's
holdings as UJOO of the members
have been added since last year's
crop was sold, b la calculated that
sixty-eeven freight trains of fifty
rare each will ha required to carry
the 54,000,000 pounds sold by the
asaociattoo.
YOUTH mOMISCS
KLAN TO IMAM
Sot km lUhMf Clark Tate
1 jto Waa* By IUM Mm
fpaaaaar, OA 16.—The Ka ElaB
•cMy of ItMHijr night, iliil •
of an aaU la k«n boaaa
way yard offkaa at at sheet -
nidnlfht, look forcible poeaaaatoa mt
• young dark, tarried klai Ma tfea
waa forued to comply with Ika da
aasnda of hia emptors that ka Mb
IhctlMO o# which ka stood Nawi
Tka preaence of tko robed Htm
tion for a moment, whick «4ai
Rowtttr, wwn om or im vwton ■
a calm and coaapa'eed voice statod
that thoro waa no caoaa tor uaaaad
nesa, that nono of tka
%a botharod axcopt
said to bo about 20 years of an,
waa takan by tba
by the whita robed Tiatton to a waft
ing automobile and whiakad away at
a high rata of apaad, H la said, to a
lopely pier* of wooda wmo
from town.
ia a cold, drizzling rain tka
la Mid to have been lad wall
into the darkness of the thickata,
where the rabid figures took
raapaetira atanda around tka
Here thf young man waa
of certain unbecoming
reprehensible nature of
■tood accused by hia
waa told in no uncertain
»uch practices must ceaaa
He was told that if ha
faithfully to do thia all would ba
with him.
It ia said the tarror-atriekan
promised to do anjAhing that
bo deairad of him. wherma*oa ha
aaaurod that not a hair oa hie kaad
will ka harmed ao long aa ha kaapa
hia promise to follow strictly certain
lines of conduct which are aaid to
ba in accordance with moral aa w«B
as statutory law.
The young man waa takan back to
hia work, and admits the truthful
ness of the story and says he ei
to keep his promise.
th*
Raid iUmli $800,000 Liquor
Within Thick CtnMBl
Wdb
New York. Oct. T—la the
of • factory bmt the Eaat
within wan* of brick and
prohibition apnta laat night
to have discovered one of the
atoraa of contraband liqoor yet
ed—about *500 W» worth of
pa|M, whiaky, and alcoboi.
Much of the liquor, the a rente say,
waa stole* from the Republic Ware
house some time ago. In Dm gigantic
cache, they laid, ware 10 barrels of
champagne, 460 barrels and MM
cases of whiaky, and about 600 firs
ration cans of alcohol.
Crowds gathered outaide the fact*
ory baildinr. that of the Standard
Carpet Company on Forty-Poortfc
Street, while the acenta explored with
flaahlights the foundation of the
building
Measurement* taken of tba
rmund floor and in the cellar ahew
ed that the cellar waa ihortar by
far than the floor above it. Ita
the arenta came upon a cable, had
ing apparently into a blank wall of
cement and brick. They attacked
the wall with axes and aledcehaai
United
that three wan