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Tuesday, September 24, 1929
Why Farmers Can Not Organize
The tobacco farmers can riot organize al the pres
r
cnt time,- 1 hey know'loo little about\ill phases of
tlu» tobacco business except production.
The theory of coo|ierative marketing is practically
perfect, when all things are equal, but the plan is al
most impossible to put into o|ieration as there are hun
dreds of thousands of . farmers, each producing a'few
acres of tobacco, most of which is mortgaged for its
full'value to some merchant, who owes in turn and
pledged his security to some northern firm. Or, it
may be, the farmer owes his local bank, which in
turn owes the New York bank for money borrowed
to loan to the farmer to produce his crop. Every
body knows these obligations come due and unless
they are paid they throw the whole financial system
out of balance; and every farmers knows pay day,
on a crop mortgage, is almost as sad a$ judgment
day wiil be to the rank sinner. Iliis .makes the farmer
helpless when it amies to (moling his tobacco. He
tan'not repledge it, because it is already pledged to
the man who hcl[x>d him to produce it, a man why
generally is unable to carry him again.
but even if the larmer fwtols his tobacco when it
is low and borrows its full value from any source
on any easy terms what good will it do him, when
the very saint iiig Five will buy it in the end and
will buy it at their own- price*'not even allowing for
Insurance and interest? Nothing pleases the manu
facturers more than for the farmers to organize a pool
and carry interest charges, insurance, storage, and
damage. It saves them these items of cost and dan
gers of datnage, and they have exactly the same power
to take it at a low price when the pool closes as they
do when it opens. Of course, the government has the
power to force different conditions. Yet, according
to our (xiliciis in in dealing with matters of
this kind, that might not be advisable.
The nearest thing in sight to relieve the tobacco
farmj-r i> the organization of one more company and
making it the Big Six Let each fanner, throw one
sixth of his tobacco into the hop|x-r and let it come
out a cigarette and sell it on. the same.'basis as the
I.ucky Strike, the -I'iedntent, the Chesterfield, or the
Camel At the'end of the year they would find that
they would have a profit of $25,000,(XX), made on
one sixth of their crop, which would be 10 times the
profit they received for the other live sixths.
If all the members of the cooperative tobacco as
sociation had set asidt' a like proportion of their crop
the first year of the organization, they would have
had a live, going, growing business now. and the Rey
nolds bunch would not be making j> H),000,000 each
year out of a product that they pay the farmer star
vation prices for.
It would cost far less to finance a scheme of this
THE BIG ROANOKE FAIR
WILLIAMSTON' NORTH CAROLINA
November 4th, sth, 6th, 7th, Bth, 9th, 1929
THE FAIR THAT CONTINUES TO GROW BETTER YEAR"
THE PREMIUM LIST WILL BE PRINTED WITHIN A FEW DAYS. THEN £EGIN PREPARING YOUR PREMIUMS AND MAKING
PREPARATONS TO ATTEND EASTERN CAROLINES LARGEST FAIR. WE HAVE ONE OF THE BEST FAIR GROUNDS IN NORTH
CAROLINA, AND EVERYTHING IS BEING PREPARED FOR THE BIG EVENT. *
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The W. T. Stone Shows Will Feature on the Midway
WITH 20 SHOWS AND 10 RIDING DEVICES
i kind, with a small portion of the crop, than to Itian
| on it all. »■
The farmer who thinks the tobacco companies have
sufficient grace in their hearts to pay a fair price for
his tobacco should probably l>e classed as weak
| minded.
A Sad Scene
!
Among the sad street scenes is an old man, bent
with age, and his hair white from the snow of many
winters, mourning because a son is being led to the
penitentiary. Yet we too frequently behold such a
\ "Scene. Seven time* last week this occurred among
the whites, and as many negroes of the county.
Each case has a history. Most of them will show
i that all the fault does not lie at the door of the
■I young man who may have killed, or the one who may
j have broken in and robbed a neighbor, or who has
run wild over the laws of the land morals of
society. / «-
Resisting the law may have had much to do with
the t>f. sqtne. The low home pressure for
i higher ideals in life, that is, never teaching the value
l of truth, obedience, and 'honor, Is also a contributing
cause.
Too many parents are always ready to side with,
and uphold, their children, regardless of how much
they s.teal or h'bw bad they lie, they are with them.
If they make money by bootlegging or moonshiniiig
some of them regard it as smart and encourage it.
Lack of law enforcement is the cause of many
crimes. Yet the Home is the flower bed up in which
yime flourishes, Low ideals of fathers and mothers
lause boys and girls to go out in this new |>erilous
society totally unprepared to resist its temptations.
.Many homes are paying more attention to producing
dudes ' and ' llap|M rs" than they are in bringing up
honorable, truthful sons and daughters, , , -
But it is a sad thing to see fathers and mothers
weeping because their children are on the road to
prison. Even if they have played the fool in raising
the youngsters, they are sad and grieved.
You Do Likewise
Greenville Reflector.
In conversation yesterday with, one of the farmers
of our county who paid us a visit, we asked the ques
tion as to the conditions on his farm as a result of low
tobacco prices. "Well, he said, "they might take
this crop away from me, hut barring some other mis
fortune, 1 can still eat another year. 1 have my own
hogs with plenty if feed-fur them, and I have made
enough supplies to take care of the needs of my family
and my stock during the coming year." Such a reply
as this from a farmer is certainly gratifying, and it
wae good news to us to know that some of our farm
ers are far-sighted enough to see to it that their home
needs are Lakea-tare «f on the farm list. Ihe sad part
of the whole matter, however, is that the farmer with
whom we talked yesterday was an exception, for we are
confident* that the farmers in our county who have
made enough supplies this year to lake care of their
J needs, are few and far between. If every farmer in
Pitt County this year had made enough supplies to
take care of the needs of.his htwsehold and his farm
we would not now be fac ; ng the depression and [>essi
mism that h is been brought about by the low own
ing of the tobacco markets. Let 's hope that our farm
ers will wake up to the necessity of raising their own
supplies in order that conditions now prevalent might
be averted in future years.
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Organize, By All Means
Sew Hern Journal.
We can point with pride to our farmers' organiza
tion here in Craven County. Since they have been
together, they can count thousands of dollars that
they have saved in marketing and buying.
There is no doubt in the minds of thinking men that
|. such a movement is the best thing that they can do,
so why put it off, why dilly dally about it?
The Reidsville Review sayss "When a woman goes
in to get a pair of shoes and tells the clerk she wants
'any si/e so long is they are comfortable, she is past
the fifty-year mark." And Dorothy l)ix says that no
woman is completely bappy until she is past lifty years
old and dttes not care who knows it.
THE ENTERPRISE
THE LETTER BOX
SMITHWICKS CHEEK
CHURCH
Dear brothers and sisters composing
the Skfcwarkey Union and Kehukee As
sociation, Greetings:
I am old and afflicted, and at this
trtfie am confined to my bed, and I
may never be able to speak to you all
again in this earthly tabernacle. I have
been affiliated with you all about 40
ly»ars, and for all this time have be
i lieved in a new birth, as Christ {aught
iKicodinlus. You must be born again,
|of the water and of the spirit, or ycto
|ci.n not see the Kingdom of God.
The darkest time of the night is just;
: before 'day. in conviction. When I
came to the place that, l could see no j
! real hope but pass sentence on my- J
self that there was nothing for me but
instruction and everlasting punishment,!
I but theii it was that He applied the j
| water and the spirit to my poor soul;
j then it was the light of His blessed
j countenance shined upftn and light-
Jed up the very citadel my poor
i,. ~rt, then it wavUtiiULccjuld see Jes
us as my blessed Savior al??f'>Kedeem
er.
Now, brethren and sisters, I want to
say unto you it is better to obey than
to sacrifice. He has laid down rulings
t' i us to go by through His blessed
word. He has said unto us, "Love
nu with thine whole heart, mind, soul,
and strength and thy neighbor as thy
seit." Some might say, how can ,wc
d this? The Scripture' 1 says, we can
Idc all things through Christ, 'who>
I strengthens us., i>nd sometimes we art
| enabled by'the blessed spirit of God to
"! examine ourselves, and when we are
STY blessed to do so we see 'so many
things contrary to the blessed word
that we are made to exclaim, "Oh,
wretched man that 1 am. Who shall
dt liver me from the body of this
death." Then we have nowhere else to
go but to Jesus, the giver of all good
and perfect gifts, and fall down at Hist
fu t and beg Him to pardon these sins
\Xe see in ourselves and renew iis a
gain in the spirit of our Blessed Re
deemer.
And it is at this time that we are
rot commanded to examine our brother
but he looks unto us to be better than
v ourselves are. We may judge our
bi other by the fruits he bears, but it
iis not our prerogative to judge our
brother or say what he shall cat or
j what he shall drink, but the Lord
iWlioweth what we need, and He will
give us meat and drink such as He
sees we stand in nede t^f.
Brethren, 1 see, by the eye of faith,
a great cloud hanging over us, and
tin only thing 1 see to dispel the
cloud is to humble -ourselves down at
the feet of each other and open, up
i f t:l ve/y hyMfts, to each other and ac
knowledge our shortcoming# and back
bitmgs and arrow-shooting and come
together in one common faith. United
we stall;!, divided we fall. If we find
ati> trouble with any of our churches,
We shiiiild go to the blessed Lord in
prayer, go to Him and pray unto Him
that He might let the light of His glor
ii u's countenance shine upon tliein and
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WIIO.IAMSTON
IQWTH CAHOLIN*
make reconciliation among themselves
juid not try to pull out and divide the
wheat from the tares, but remember
tift'admonition of the Lord in the par
able of the sower : When the .wheal
was sown the enemy came also and
Sowed the tare#, and when they found
the tares in the wheat they took it to
(he Lord and asked Him. in humbleness
"What must we do at>c>ut it?" And
He said unto* them, "Let the wheat
and tares grow up together until har
vest time comes; and gather the wheat
in the garner and bundle the tares
up the taresmuetaoinenuthmerfhmerft
in to be burnt. If jre take up
the tares, ye may root up some of the
wheat also."
We are not commanded to help our
sister church. According to our church
discipline, we have no right to take
pi.rt of the defended church up to the
union meeting and the association and
have them received, leaving the other
pirt and thirsting
after the sincere'nvrik of the word ttrat
they may feed thereupon and grow;
ai f the meat that they may be strong
in the Lord, who has called them out of
darkness into His glorious light and
liberty of the gospel. Hut seeing those
T, ho come unto them and give them
spiritual food that they might feast
ihereon and grow, rather than that head
them off with letters saying gnto them
they are not the church. We are the
church and hold our meetings on sec
ond Sundays. We would be glad to
h;.ve you with Us on our meeting time.
VW learn from the Bible and our dis
cipline that if we have trouble with
ourselves \vj must settle it ourselves,
calling on the Lord to help us; and if
we find we can not settle it ourselves
we should go to some one else in the
vay of counsel, for the churches and
union and association have no right to
Mttle our business unless we take it
up to them—-then it is that they have a
right to settle our business; and if they
find no other to -settle it for us
tin y have a right to exclude the church
fioii the union and association and
PEANUT
BAGS
BUY NOW
We can furnish guar
anteed patched —also
new bags.
WALTER R. CURK
Care Clark Peanut Co.
PLYMOUTH N. C.
send" U4 back to our own church and
let us settle it ourselves and bear and
forbear with us and pray unto the
blessed Lor;) that He may direct by
His blessed spirit that we may be en
abled to make reconciliatfon with one
another, thus being able to present our
selves to the union meeting and asso
ciation in gospel order and the teach
ing of our blessed Savior; and then,
and not until then, has the union meet
ing or association any right to recog
nize it. I find in the Scripture where
H says, "Examine yourself and to
rat," but I fail to find anything in the
Scripture any place where it says the
preacher or pastor has a right to ex
amine one brother and say he shallj
eat and examine another brother and
say he shall not eat; and His reason for
that, as He gives, was that one of
them would not communie with the
other.
Now, brethren and sisters, in con
clusion, let me say that in the begin
ning of this trouble one factiom-known
as the Kader Lilley side, came to us
a> a delegation asking us to drop cor
respondence and communion with them
until they got settled, and we granted
their request. The other faction,
known as the Harrington faction, has
never asked at any time to drop cor
respondence or stop communion with
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But he may capitalize his business with Life Insur
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Tuesday, September 24,1929
them. We dropped correspondence
with tlitui and have not corresponded"
With either faction since then, and
now I would ask the union meeting
and association to condescend to undo
what we have done and send them
back to their church, so that the union
and association may not have any of
their troubles to contend with, and let
this union meeting and association
come together in one common faith,
having no jar among us, and. let the
blessed Lord take charge of our blessed
spirit which He gives unto us, enabling
us to take our harps down from the
willows and tune them in songs of
everlasting praises to Israel's God, who
brought us out of the horrible pit and
the miry clay and established our go
ing.
Now, I will that this be read af the
ur.ion meeting and association.
Dictated by J. B. Allen, Jamesville,
N. C„ from his bed of affliction, and
written by Brother Luther Hardison.
September 20th, 1929.
666
is a Prescription for
COLDS, GRIPPE, FLU, DENGUE,
BILIOUS FEVER AND MALARIA
It is the most speedy remedy known.