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Tuesday, July 11, 1933
Our Declining Marriage Rate
Why do not people marry now as they did in the
years past?
When we look at the marriage records of our coun
try and find fewer marriages in 1932 than in any year
in our history, it opens up ground for thought.
One of the first answers to the above question will
likely be "hard times." Another will certainly be
that it is because women are making their own liv
ing and are proving themselves the equal of men in the
fields of business.
Both of these conclusions may possibly have merit
in them. Yet we fear the main cause comes from
the laying aside of modesty and greatly extending
the liberties between the sexes, until trust and confi
dence have been so weakened that people are pro
ceeding with caution.
While the ratio of marriages according to popula
tion is very much lower, the ratio of divorces to mar
riages is very much larger; which indicates that it is
not so much the question of poverty or independence,
but that the new freedom has brought the moral issue
to the front, which is decreasing marriage and multi
plying divorce.
Vote More Intelligently
Some folks believe that a new and |>owerful politi
cal organization is being built up in the state for the
benefit of some politicians who have aspirations for
high marks in official circles, perhaps as negotiators
with the lobbyists or at some mushy pie counter, na
tional or State.
The people already are feeling the force of a sales
tax. and while they are groaning and grumbling about
the tax, the gang that made the decree through the
last General Assembly are out in the field picking
members of the next legislature.
It is strange that 90 per tent of the people will
grumble or mutter over a thing or a condition already
on them, while the other 10 per cent are running ahead
and fixing ways to fasten the saw or similar condi
tions on them again. ■»-
Less grumbling and growling and more intelligent
voting is what our |>eople need to do.
Watch the Machine
"The New Deal," which seems to be making fair
progress, may face some difficulties unless it is closely
guarded.
The prime purpose of the new deal is to put labor
to work at higher wages, in order that names may be
transferred from the public dole list to the industrial
pay rolls of the country, which will make them cus
tomers in all line of trade, which plan seems to be
perfect in its general scope. The danger lies in the ma
chine which the laborer operates and which enables
him to produce several times as much in a day as the
same laborer could before the World War, some 20
years ago.
That machine is protected by patent by the gov
ernment and belongs, in most cases, to combinations,
as has been shown in the Morgan investigation, so that
every item the man and the machine produces car
ries large profits in royalties or otherwise to the wealth
of the country and the machine is not a user of food,
clothing, or other goods, which closes the channels
or outlets for the distribution of the goods produced
by it.
Since no producing public can be prosperous with
out a consuming public—and when our work is done
by machinery, the power of the consumer is kiled—it
is just as essential to regulate the machine as it is
to put men to work; because if the machine is left
free, it is going to close the pay roll to man.
Tax the machine and save men.
An Unequalled Opportunity
. Jf talking about plowing up one-fourth of the cot
ton crop raises the price from 6 to 12 cents, what
will actually plowing it up do to the price?
If the farmers dilly-dally over the question until
the opportunity passes, what will be the price be?
It may be cents.
Three bales will sell for more than four, and the
world doesn't need the fourth bale. All the good it
will do it to force the price down to a point below
the cost of production.
Fanners, slow up for your own good, and to help
the Southland.
Diligence, Honesty and Courtesy
So far as we know, rto man has retired from office
in this State for years whose work has been more uni
versally approved by the people generally than Gil
liam Grissom, former commissioner of internal reve
nue. All because he has done his duty honestly and
efficiently, which, after all, is the thing that counts
in life.
Too many officeholders seem to act as if their offices
are legal possession to handle at their own will—and
this type of office holding frequently leads to trouble.
On the other hand the man who follows the law
and uses diligence and courtesy will always merit the
respect of his people.
Every officer should remember that the power vest
ed in him is circumscribed by the laws which created
his office.
South Depends Largely on Cotton
Beaufort News
Recent advances in the price of cotton probably
meant more for the welfare of the South than any
thing else that has happened. Cotton still remains
the Souths biggest crop. It also leads in value all
exports from the United States. About half of the
cotton grow in the United States is manufactured
here and the other half goes to foreign countries. When
prices of raw cotton afford the growers a decent profit
practically everybody in the South gets some benefit
therefrom.. Give the South two or three crops of cot
ton that will sell at remunerative figures and we will
have some sure enough prosperity.
An effort is being made by the Federal Administra
tion to, induce cotton planters to reduce their acre
agre. The Government is offering to pay them so
much an acre to reduce. This is a brand new scheme
in this country, and we do not know how it will work.
One thing, though, is certain—that another big crop
of cotton on top.- of the last two will send prices down
to low figures. About 13,000,000 bales of old cotton
were carried over from last year, which is enough
to supply the demand for a good many months. The
old law of supply and demand still regulates the price
of cotton, as it does most all prices.
Bringing the Fable Up To Date
News and Observer.
There was once a dog with a piece of meat in hi«
mouth who came to a stream and saw there the re
flection of a dog with a piece of meat in his mouth.
He snapped at the meat held by the reflected dog in
the stream and in so doing dropped that which he
had in his mouth and got only a ducking for his pains,
And then there are cotton farmers in 1933 who are
looking at 10-cent cotton exchange at the time when
they themselves have no cotton at all to sell. They
will not have any cotton to sell until the cotton now
growing in their fields is ready for picking and gin
ning and goes to market. In the meantime, the gov
ernment is offering them money to reduce acreage to
save themselves from the strong probability of six-cent
cotton if all the cotton planted in the South is allowed
to go to market.
Ten-cent cotton today, so lar as the majority of
Southern cotton planters is concerned, is no more
than a reflection in a stream. For them it is abso
hrtely-without reality. For them no cotton prices be
fore ginning time will have any reality at all. To
throw away the offered benevolence of the government
is to grab at the reflection and let the reality go. And
*\he probability is that if Southern farmers do, with
unenlightened selfishness, turn down the government's
offer they will find that they will get, as the dog got
the ducking, six-cent cotton come September.
To state the case in terms of present fact rather
than old fable, consumers of cotton all over the coun
try have been required by law to finance the effort by
the government to help the Southern cotton farmer
help himself. With this national financing contrib
uted by all the people behind him, the cotton farmer
of the South has been given the privilege by the
government of selling a part of his growing crop to the
government of selling a part of his growing crop to
the government for destruction in order that another
great cotton crop may not be added to the coton sur
plus which would bring on the South another tragic
year of six-cent cotton.
Upon the basis of this reduction campaign, specu
lators have forced the price of cotton to above 10
cents.. This means that the speculators are betting
that the reduction plan will succeed, and that, with
its success, for the first time in years, cotton will
bring decent prices when it comes to market. It is
obvious, however, as the price went up with the an
nouncement of the plan, that it will come tumbling
back down if the plan should Mil.
I en-cent cotton today is a matter of only theoretical
interest to the majority of Southern cotton planters.
Most of them have no cotton to sell. They will have
no cotton to sell until the present crop is picked and
ginned. What the price will be at that time depends
upon how much of the cotton growing in the cotton
fields today is allowed to go to makret. If farmers
with their eyes upon the present prices turn down the
government s offer to make the whole country ihare in
the cost of the cotton reduction plan, then all experts
are agreed that more cotton will go to market than
the present high prices can stand.
Enlightened selfishness should lead the farmers of
the South to accept the government's offer. For the
first time the sacrifice of a proposed crop reduction is
placed upon the whole people, and the profits of such
a reduction are to accrue wholly to the cotton fanner.
He is offered a gift. And a gift at a time when the
Lord knows he needs it. If he turns it down, the
right to complain at six-cent cotton, if it comes in the
fall, will be denied him.
Nobody ever sympathized with the dog that got
the ducking.
THE BNTBRPRISB "
OPPORTUNITY TO
BE GIVEN EVERY
COTTON GROWER
Completion of State Quota
Not To Limit Length of
Campaign
Completion of the 363,000 acres
cotton reduction allotment for North
Carolina will in no way determine the
length of the campaign which will
continue until every cotton grower has
the opportunity to sign a contract,
says Dean I. O. Sjiwub, director of
State College Agricultural Extension
Service.
"The campaign is not complete until
each grower has been given such an
opportunity," he said. "However, it
will be impossible for county agents
and local committees to be in the
field after JulyS, unless the Secretary
of Agriculture directs otherwise and
cotton growers should decide at once
what action they will take in regard
to signing the contracts."
Dean Schaub says that accuracy is
cssention in determining the estimated
yields per acre of land offered in the
cotton acreage reduction campaign,
and upon this accuracy depends the
success of the entire program. Sec
retary Wallace can refuse to accept
offers in excess of the average pro
duction over the last five years as re
corded in the Washington office.
Despite the fact that instructions
and contracts from Washington were
late in reaching the 67 cotton-growing
counties, the campaign has progressed
rapidly during the past two weeks "in
cooperation and plesant reception."
However, the success of the cam
paign has not yet been fully determined
and rests in the hands of the State's
90,000 growers, who will receive over
$5,000,000 in cash benefits should they
select to accept the cotton program
in North Carolina.
FEED CROPS CAN
BE PLANTED IN
PLACE COTTON
Drouth Has Caused Short
age of Feed for Livestock
Throughout State
Crops grown in the place of cotton j
to be removed during the present
acreage reduction campaign might be
used as a source of feed for livestock,
advi|es L. I. Case, animal husband
man at State College, who says pas
tures have been seriously damaged by
the prolonged spring drouth,
"This drouth has demonstrated again
the necessity for having some kind of
grazing crops for supplementing the
permanent pastures," Case gays. "A
number of our best livestock growers
profited from the experience with
drouth last season and now have their
stock on soybeans or Sudan grass
where the animals are making good
gains while the owners wait for rains
to revive the parched pastures. Some
of these grazing crops were ready for
use June 1. Now that it is contem
plated removing some 363,000 acres of
cotton out of production during the
next two weeks, some of this land
grazing also could be profitable put
to additional grazing crops for live
stock."
Experience with Sudan grass in
North Carolina has shown that it will
be ready for grazing within 30 to 55
days front the time of planting. Good
crops have been secured when the
crop is planted as late as July 15, and
some grazing will be secured if plan
ted later.
Varities of soybeans such as the
Biloxi, which is preferred for grazing
within six weeks from planting. U»*
ually they are planted up until thy
first week in July.
Soybeans may also be planted with
Sudan grass. In this case, Mr. Case
planting the |oyb^ns
Parents!
Some time last Sunday, sev
eral boys entered the old Clark
Drug Store building, now be
ing repaired, and broke a glass
that was to be placed in the
new front. In addition to
breaking the glass and misplac
ing other articles, several
pounds of nails were stolen.
This notice is not published
to cast a reflection on those
that are innocent, but rather to
hale the parents kindly ask
their boys to refrain from en
tering the building. My being
unable to absorb such losses
necessitates my asking for your
cooperation.
I thank you.
W. R.
Marshall
and giving than one cultivation be
fore planting the Sudan grass.
Increases Yield by First
Planting Lespedeza Crop
Erastus Parker of Harnett County*
planted wheat on lespedeza sod and
increased his yield from 28 to 60
bushels on two acres and credits the
increase to lespedeza.
NOTICE
North Caroina,
Martin County.
Under and by virtue of the power
of sale contained in a certain deed of
trust executed to the undersigned
trustee on the 29th day of August,
1931, and of record in the public reg
istry of Martin County in book H-3,
at page 30. said deed of trust having
, been given for the purpose of securing
a certain note of even date and tenor
therewith, and the stipulations con
! tained in the said deed of truat not
, having been complied with, and at the
request of the owner of the said note,
the undersigned trustee will, on Sat
-1 urday, the 22nd day of July, 1933, at
12 o'clock m., in front of the court
house door in the town of William.
ston, North Carolina, offer for sale
to the highest bidder, for cash, the
following described real property, to
wit:
All that certain tract or parcel of
land lying and being in Cross Roads
Township, Martin County and State
of North Carolina, bounded on the
north by the lands of Goldie Hyman
and S. P. Moore, on the east by the
lands of S. S. Bailey, D. J. Meeks,
Barnhill Brothers, V. G. Taylor, Mrs.
Sudie Lanier, the Power land, >nd
others, on the south by the lands of
J. S. Peel, J. G. Barnhill, Joe Wynn,
C. B. Roebuck, and Delia Clark, and
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To the Citizens of
WILLIAMSTON
Your town has a good credit rating, and the
only way this rating can be maintained is to con
tinue to pay its obligations promptly; and to pay
promptly, taxes must be paid.
Penalty will be added after July Ist and the
taxes advertised August Ist. If you have not paid
your taxes, please do so before June 30th, as the
Town has heavy obligations to meet on that date.
W. B. Daniel
TAX COLLECTOR
Tuesday, July 11,1933
eft and wife by deed o! record in the
public registry of Martin County in
Book Q-l, at page 529.
This the 20th day of June, 1933.
-H. D. BATEMAN,
je27 4tw Trustee.
Elbert S. Peel, Attorney.