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P PRAISES EASTERN
NORTH CAROLINA
Returning from Rocky Mount and
p Woodland, where he attended coun
■ ty fairs, and from Wilmington, where
he visited the bulb sterlization plant,
observed shipping facilities and ob
| servfed some fine truck far’"? in out
lying sections,. Commissioner of Ag
riculture William A. Graham declared
that Eastern North Carolina is en
dowed with potentialities that are de
stined to.piake .of it one of the best
known sections, of \merica.
Although Rocky Mount and Wood
land are mi the midst of cottar, grow
ing territory and the former is one
I ' of the biggest tobacco markets in the
State, he declared that the people
were not bound to any one staple; that
t at Woodland, where he spoke, he urged
he farmers to rise to the situation and
not produce more cotton than their
proportionate share of the world de
mand, and that the response was
heartening. He said he felt sure that
» the farmers in that section would do
their part to prevent future crises as
now confi onts the South.
Commissioner Grahcm said he
(►‘found many of the farmers were rais
ing their < \vn meat, as was evidenced
by the presence of many fine hams
and that they were determined to raise
more home supplies, including poultry
and dairy cows, so as to have a mar- j
ketable sur fius over and above the
amount needed for home consumption.
“There is ui doubtedly a great future
for the poultry business in North Car
olina,” he ad led, “as has already been
shown by the amount of pou’try re
cently shipped.”
The Commissioner, referring again
to the cotton situation, declared that
bankers and business men in general j
could do much to render very valuable
service to the cotton farmer and that I
the situation demands concerted ac-:
tion on the part of the farmers them
selves.
“It was m / pleasure,” he said, “to !
visit the bulb sterlization plant and,
to see some >f the bulb growing find i
( truck farms in vicinity of Wilming
ton. I am convinced that, on account
of the ideal climate in that section,
much of the tourist travel that has
been directed toward Florida will, in
time, reach Wilmington. I was fav
orably impiessed with the shipping
i facilities I saw which convinced me
that Wilmington as a deep water port I
can be still ftorther developed. In this
respect it ha* great possibilities.
“Mr. Sprunt’s home, the house that |
was formerly occupied by Governor
Dudley, the first executive elected by j
the people, is a delightful place and |
breathes a historic atmosphere. For'
example, Mr. Sprunt has a fine group 1
of oil paintings of the Lords Pro
prietors, which wefe collected by his
father. Also he has many other his- i
• torical relics and reminders which are :
of interest.” i
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. A CHANCE FOR ALL TO HELP
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The fire losses of the United States i
and Canada are increasing at an alarm
ing rate. There is abundant evidence, j f
however, to support the statement that ■ a
organized effort along fire prevention i
lines pays real dividents. t
Fresno, California, had one of the t
worst fire loss records in America.:!
The local agents took hold of the!
situation, the fire department was j 1
reorganized, public sentiment aroused; c
adn in 18 months the losses were re- r
duced from $30.00 to $1.70 per capita. \
Seattle, Washington, had a similar ex- a
perience; and public support of the e
l Berkley, California, fire department
has resulted in the reduction of the j f
per capita loss in that city to 57 cents, t
As the result of a fire prevention cam- c
paign in Indianapolis, the per capita. p
fire loss , was reduced from $14.37 in ' t
' 1923, to $3.38 in 1924, and held a
1 $3.47 in 1925; in Battle Creek, Mich
igan, from $5.39 to 91 cents. I
d Johnstown, Pennsylvania, was hel
- down to- $50.00. Duluth, Minnesota
e Cedar Rapids, lowa, and other citie
, report similar results.
-! The. statistics prove that all classe
- and groups of people are guilty o
- | carelessness, and therefore, all mus
f share in the responsibility for Vie de
- struction of bver $500,000,000 wort]
-of property and the loss of 15,000 o
t lives per yeas. The National Boar
! of Fire Underwriters has pointed out
however, that the annual loss unde
- the head of match-smoking alone, i:
s $30,000,000 per year, and that if i
3 j were possible to eliminate the careles:
s industrial worker, this loss would b<
t i cut in half.
1 A garage employe dropped a ciga
1 but in oil waste and destroyed th<
>' j building and a score of automobiles
- j A night watchman in a public garagi
5' in Massachusetts left a burning cig
t i arette in a stock room, destroying th<
' building and $12,000 worth of cars
; ! Industrial employes are no more care
i less than other groups, byt the nature
■ j of their employment is such that care
- ! lessness is more likely to cause dis
l aster.
THE COTTON SITUATION *
i It may be that the present low price
“ of cotton, which is a matter of grave
concern to the farmers and to the peo
' pie generally of the country, is a bless
ing in disguise. It most assuredly is
if it will result in the fruition of plans
under discussion by leading represen
tatives of the cotton growing states to
bring such influence to bear upon the
farmers as will make them see the
j necessity of it and compel them in
self-defense to reduce the acreage in
I cotton.
Inasmuch as the farmers have no
| voice in fixing the price of their cotton
j why should their liberty not he cur
tailed in the matter of the quantity of
I its production, particularly, since they
| show an utter disergard for all warn-
J ings and all indications of the disas
trous effect of over-production.
While we believe no constitutional
law could be passed prescribing the
limit of acreage or denying the farm
j er the privilege of planting on his own
i land what he pleases and in whatever
quantity he desires, there could be
1 such restrictions imposed in the mat
ter of financial accommodation at the
j banks as a penalty for planting cotton
| above a certain limit of acreage that
j would have a most wholesome effect
I toward the reduction of the crop,
j The recommendation of the acreage
committee of the North Carolina
Bankers’ Association at recent meet
ing, that the state delegates to the
Memphis Cotton conference work out
a plan to retire eight million bales
[from the market this year and reduce
: acreage at least 25 jjer cent next year
I is a most excellent one.
A resolution was also adopted to
j deny credit to farmers who do not
agree to abide by this plan.
The farmers will have to wake up
! and exercise ordinary business sense
which would keep them from planting
a large acreage in cotton when one
third of an immense crop of the year
before is still stored in the warehouses
and unsold. ' , r IKISiI
The boll weevil has become a neg
ligible factor in estimating cotton pro
duction, so that the farmers cannot
reasonably plead prospective boll wee
vil damage as an excuse for larger
acreage than they would otherwise
employ.
The low price of cotton hurts the
farmers of North Carolina more than
those of any other state, simply be
cause they use more fertilizer in its
production. This is shown by the fact
that in this state the average per acre
VilK 7FRHfX)N R&rOßn
, is 274 pounds of lint cotton, while in
AUbama, Georgia, Oklahoma and
Texas, for instance, the average num
ber of pounds to the acre is respective
ly 143, 152, 135 and 131.
It will be seen from these figures
that the average production per acre
in North Carolina is more than twice
ps much as it is in Texas. This great
difference in production in favor of
: North Carolina is wholly due to the
difference in the quantity of fertilizer
used.
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FRANK PAGE ADVOCATES
| CONSTABULARY ON HIGHWAYS
A uniformed state constabulary to
| patrol North Carolina highways was
submitted as the probable answer to
the state’s appalling list of fatal road
accidents by Frank Page, chairman
of the Highway Commission, in a talk
to the traveling men entertained by
the Chamber of Commerce at the
Mansion Park hotel Friday night.
Mr. Page advocated the establish
ment of a constabulary for several
reasons but chief of these was that it
would cut the accident toll. “We are
killing one man a day on the State
maintained highways of North Caro
lina,” he said. “The whole system of
transportation is wrong if it requires
that many lives to mtaintain our roads
for automobile traffic.”
Mr. Page explained that he was
npt proposing a force of plain clothes
deputies hiding behind bill-boards to
take your numbers,” but a uniformed
force to which arrest would be only
the h'.st alternative and whose func
tion would be to facilitate traffic and
not to impede it.” '
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Dr. J. C. Mann, the well known
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NORFOLK SOUTHERN RAILROAD
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Fayettville and in- j
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diate points.
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Oriental and inter- j
mediate points,'
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and Marsden to New
Bern.
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Beaufort, Goldsboro,!
intermediate points, j
Parlor car Marsden
to Norfolk.
Lv. 4:02 P.M.—Washington and inter
mediate points.
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call cn,
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