Long-Time Agricultural Adjustment
By GUY A. CARDWKLL
Some refer to recent national agri
cultural planning as evolution, other*
as revolution?you can take your
choice?at least I am sure that all can
agree that we are on our way; and if
I read the signs correctly, we will
never return to the point from which
we started.
Extension Division News, Virginia'
Polytechnic Institute, May issue, car-1
ries a lengthy prticle, ? Long-Time |
Agricultural Adjustment," by Dr. H.
R. Tolley, of the Agricultural Adjust
ment Administration. While the in
formation in this article is intensely
interesting, coming as it does from
the administration, 1 doubt that it will i
be read by many people in is present |
form. 1 am, therefore, breaking up;
"this lung
courage reading by people"who should ,
take the time to inform themselves as
"to changes that have been brought a-1
bout in the national farming system i
and present plans of the Triple ?A for
the future of agriculture in this na
tion.
The following is by Dr. Tollcy: |
1 shall not recount step by step our j
drive for agricultural adjustment to
date. I do want, however, to try with !
broad strokes, to draw the whole pic
ture together. The main fact is that
we had to get some 40,000,000 acres
of land retired from production, and *
that we are now m the midst of iorceii j
emergency maneuvers to that end. j'
During the World War some 50,
000,000 acres in Europe, not counting
RuSsia, went out of cultivation. The
United States brought about 40,000,- j
000 more acres into cultivation and i'
geared up its whole farm plant into a
higher production. After the war we'
kept it up. We kept on farming as if j
there were still great hungry foreign ;
ity, such markets were rapidly dwind
ling. TTie" world owed us money- we
would not accept goods in return.
With our tariff wall as it was, and still
is. the only way we i<?ulil keep up tin:..
appearance of a great foreign custom
was tu lend those ojhrr nations more
and more money with which to keep
on taking our food and fabrics. This
is what we did until about 1928. Fin
ally we got sense enough to.quit it;
the ^?he iii^t,v( opr foreign mailcts
to faee the fact that we were farming
at once collapsed; aod we had at last
.irrrs too much.
The Allotment Plan
Beginning in May of 1933, with the I
passing of the Agricultural Adjust- J
mcnt Act, we have attacked our prob- |'
lem barehanded cmployin a number ,
of new methods, the most important :
of which is the allotment plan. The
allotment idea, very broadly stated, '
is to gee that 40,0004100 ur acres j
of our national area out of production, p
inducing each individual farmer to re- j
duce his plantings a certain percent, j
The chief means we h^ve thus far cm- j
ployed of inducing such rooperatttm,
is to pay farmers enough Government
money to make it worth their while
^ Jo-come in. We are raising this tnon
ey by the processing laxe*
666
Liquid, Tablets, Salve, Nose Drops.
Checks malaria in 3 days, cold first
dav. headaches or neralgia in 30 min
utes. Fine laxative and tonic. Most
speedy remedies known.
WantS
NOTICE? I HAVE CLOSED MY-!;
grist mill for public grinding. I
still have tobacco sticks for sale.
Luther Hardison, Jamcsville.
jy:r-g-p
HOG STRAYED?GILT OR SOW
pig. Crop and slit in right ear.
Smooth crop in the left. Now in my
possession. Owner may secure hog
by paying for this ad and the expense
of keeping hog. W. 11. Davis, James
ville, N. C. jyJI-211
| The voluntary allotment method hai
proved of enormous value. It is en
abling us to set up rapidly and demo
cratically the social machinery abso
lutely necessary to an orderly farn
production in this country. At tin
same t?me, I think we ought to recog
nize that our voluntary or induced
production control campaigns as now
practiced, have probably got to grow
into something rather different if the}
are to last. They are an admirable
emergency device; they arc doing the
business, establishing the essential
groundwork for an orderly American
agriculture, organized from the ground
up to fight its own price battles for
itself.
What we are getting for the money
we are distributing in adjustment pay
ments now iS a basic adjustment plain
Jy necessary to our national recovery.
Those 40,000,000 surplus acres have
beep iammimr with their products the
channel", of trade. Our larm .<lirplus
output played a part in bringing on
the general l^u-dness paralysis which
closed every bank in the land last
March. We couldn't go on without
planning forever.
Operating largely under the allot
ment method, we expect by the end
of 1934 to have pared 20,000,000 acres,
piece by piece, out of our national
corn acreage, 15.000,000 acres out of
rr.tom 7.500.000 acres out of wheat,
and a half million acres out of tobac
co Add it up, and it conies to 43,
1)00,000 acre* of the United States to
l>e taken out of commercial, competi
tive production, under the voluntary
allotment method, farm hy farm, pro
rata, by the end of this year.
That is a tremendous amount of
land to take out of use. Forty-three
million acres is considerably more
than the area of Illinois, ft i> almost
one-eighth of all the cultivated land
the United States. J^'ow, suppose
wt have by the end of this year reaclo~
?d our goal; suppose we have 43,000,
XX) acres taken out of the crops 1 have
named, taken out in tieids, strips, and
patches all over the country. Dis
[Ha cement T* on the basi's of wherever
those crops happened to be growing
when we launched allotment cam
paigns. If all these campaigns suc
irtd, we shall experience a ipcusr
a hie' re! te f iron* IrtiA ami 4an? (
gt-r of agricultural surpluses. But we
shall still he a long way from mak
ing the wisest use of oUr land.
Our efforts toward land retirement
thus far have hern necessarily an
emergency drive to get out a certain
proportion of certain crops through*
put the country, regardless of whether
any given part of the country ought
to he growing more or less of the
crop in question. Allotted withdraw
al* under the pfei>eilt system tend to
proceed, crop by crop, without due re
gard?for?correct?farm?management
inter-relations, on farms, and by reg
iumL^AVc have made a good begin
ning, but in so doing, we have plainly
let ourselves in for a much longer and
much harder job. That is the way
of progress. Our largely successful
scramble to take out land in patches,"
and to organize farmers for controlled
production is stimulating n great deal
of new?thinking. It is nfaking our
farmers think in terms of fanning to
gether. not against one another. ' It
is creating a multitude of new situa-"
lions which force us all, as never be
fore, to think hard and fast. We can't
sit around just as we used to and con
template the dream of a land in order,
wisely used, fcvery (fay we are do
ing something which makes it more
imperative tliat we think ahead of the
Ktap?? nf agricultural rcorgani
ration and set up a permanent land
[>rograinNtiL^tlie--long pull.
' V
Wilkes f armers Dl&giffg
Silos to Aid Dairying
Wilkes farmers report a Rood flow
r?f sourwood nectar, a wonderful corn
crop, and plans for (Iirrhik more
trench silo.s to aid the dairy indus
try.
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CHARGE TO CHUB 1
Williamstcm AB R H PO A E
i Earp, ss 4 1 2 3 1 0
, Gaylord. If * 0 1 2 0 0
* iT. Good mo n, lb 4 2 2 7 0 0
Brake, rf 5 1 7 i ? ?
I Uiile. c 3 0 19 12
r | Herring." cf 3 0 2 10 0
, ' Brogden, 3b 3 0 0 0 2 0
'Anderson, 2b <00140
Gtddjr, p 1 0 J } J ??.
' Kugler, p 2 0 0 0 1 ^
? xGardner ? 1 0 0 0 0 ^
Total* - M 1 10 24 9 3
xBatted for Kugler in 9th.
E. City AB A H PO A E
.Foreman, ss ? 4 1 1 1 1 0
' Fearing. rf * }- ' ~ - !| }J
i Johnson, 3b 3 10 1 3 0
Goodman, If 4 2 2 3 1 0
Welch. r( 3 1 1 0 0
Griffith, lb HI 0 14 0
Hall, c ? -311211
Sawyer, 2b ? ? 4 10 113 1
Levann, p 0 0 0 0 1 0
Lunak.p
2 0 4 4 3 0
Totals 30 8 7 27 14 2
I Score by innings *
Williamston 301 000 000-4
H. C ity 302 210 00*?8 j
I Summary: Kuns batted in, Brake,
ll'zzle (2), C. Goodman (5). Three
base hit. Brake. Home run, C. Good
'man (2) Sacrifice hits, Gaylord,
iJohnson. Stolen bases, Brake, I ear
ing Welch. 1-eft on bases, Williams
ton 9, Klizabeth City 7. Double
plays, Anderson to Earp to 1. G00-*"
'moll, C. Goodman to Johnson, Lunak
i to Hall lo Giiffilh, C. Goodman tn
Griffith, llils off Gaddy, 3 in 2 1-3
innings (1 out in 3rd); off Kugler,
4 Ml 5 2-3 innings off Levann. 4 in
*2-3 inning (2 out in 1st); off Lunak,
0 in ? 1-3 innings. Winning pitcher,
Lunak. Losing pitcher. Gaddy.
Struck out, by Gaddy 2. by Kugler 7,
by Levann 0, by Lunak 1. Base on
balls, off Gaddy 3, off Kugler 3, off
Levant! 1, off Lunka 4. Hit by pitch
er, Welch <hy Kugler). Wild pitch,
' Kugter. Time, 2:10. Umpire, Fra
Club Short Course
Was Well Attended
? Tin* 500 4-II hovs and K?rls who at
teucled the annual- short course at
State College last week are hack in
their homes telling Their -friends of
the good times they had and the
things they learned.
The delegates at the short course
ti-.-r.. fp'TU"tin- various clubs
over the State for their outstanding
records in club projects and their po
tjMitKiliti.-* fur leadership.
The fundamental purpose of the
short course was npt only to train the
delegates in the essentials of a fuller
rural life,* but also to train them so
they could go hack home and share
their benefits with their fellow club
members, said L. R. Harrill and Miss
Ruth Current, club leaders at State
. College.
Special attention was" given thlT
work of making the program mterest
[tng and entertaining. Club lea<lers
sought to make a more vivid impres
sion (in the young people's minds by
[keeping them on the alert.
Classes and lectures were based on
problems uppermost in the club
mimU The lessons studied
were of the kind they can put into
practice during the coming years. Of
particular significance were tbe dem
< mat rat ions showing efficiefTT~and ef=~
fective ways to go about different
taaks. ?
Many of the entertainments were
of an instructive nature. The play
by the Gaston County group Friday
night depicted tbe beginning and de
velopment of 4-H club work in
capital buildings gave the boys and
girls a new conception of their state
develop a spirit of cooperation and
comradeship and to bring out the
nhilitv to?Lead?others in social and
group activities.
Before leaving for their homes,
many of the club members expressed
regret that the short course could not
last longer and hope that they may
be among those to attend next year.
RESULTS
Friday, July !?
Elisabeth City 8, Williamston 4.
Plymouth 5, Ahoskie 4.
Eden(t>u 11, Windsor 0.
Saturday, July 28
Williamston 3, Elisabeth City 2..
Plymouth 5, Ahoskie 3.
Windsor forfeited to Kdenton.
(iames were rained out yesterday.
STANDINGS
W.
L.
Pet.
Kdcnton
10
1
.909
Plymouth ?
I V
t
.900
Willianiston
4
7
.364
Aho.sfcie
2
9
.182
t WHERE THEY PLAY j
TUESDAY, JULY 31at
Ahoskie at WUliamiton.
Plymouth at Edcnton.
WEDNESDAY. AUOUST lat
Edcnton at WUUamaton.
at .
THURSDAY, AUOUST 2nd
WUUamston at Edanton.
Ahoakia at Plymouth
FRIDAY, AUGUST 3rd
Wllllamaton at Plymouth.
Edenton at Ahoakia.
SATURDAY. AUOUST 4th
Plymouth at Wllliamaton.
Ahoakia at Edanton.
Gt-^aAt
MODERN
REFRIGERATION
FOR THE FARM
AT ONCY A FEW
CENTS A DAY
iu.
HUNT .
ELECTROLUX
Now On Display at Bus Station, Williafnston
J. L. PEEL AND H.M.BRITT
AGENTS
SAVE OUR AUTOMOBILES
By Hairy Gander son
* There has been lots to say about
the above statement. It is one of the
I most serjous problems confronting
this State; it is at this time staring
each and everyone oir us squarely in
, the face. Only through the most
honest and sincere cooperation of
every single citizen in this State, in
every walk of life, can the answer j
to that statement be realized. In view
of the *fact that I only have such a
limited space in which to express
myself, I shall at this time apologize 1
for the briefness of an article on such '
an important subject. Now?please !
I don't feel offended, if through my .
' ,.r ai_:_ ? i_ I
pen any part of this article steps on
your toes. One rttever knows just 1
| how close a fatality resulting from an 1
automobile accident may come to his
heart.
j The first move is to positively en
force the present laws thit have al
ready been written in our law books.
Mow thift-r-an he dnn?? immediately?
every law-enforcing officer must
"crack down" on every law-offender.
I have just this moment finished read
ing "The Motor Vehicle Uws?of
North Carolina" and find that even
if the present laws were abided by,
these most disastrous conditions
would not prevail. You must do your
part if the goal is to be rearhed.
Make Survey of Traffic Conditions
I take the liberty to suggest to our
illustrious Governor of North Caro
lina that he appoint a committee of
five men who would be quite capable
of making a careful survey of traffic
(embracing
I the highway, the driver, the vehicle)
and make a report to the Governor
| who would in turn make his recom
mendations at the convening of our
next Legislature?as to the consolida
tion and revision of the present laws
and drawing 'of the new laws which
I shall suggest now.
State-Wide Drivers Permit
i The inexperienced driver is a real
menace. Unfortunately, only a few
towns in this State demand its driv
ing citizens to have a driying permit
Even if all cities and towns did de
mand a driver's license, that would
still leave out our large population of
folks who live in the rural sections |
of this State. Now what this State J
needs is a law which would demand (
of every person over sixteen years
of age who wished to driv a car?to '
undergo a rigid test as to his quali- !
fVcations, both mental and physical. ?
He must -be thoroughly competent; j
otherwise he is not allowed to take
the wheel. Remember, it is human
failure as well as nieclianicat failure ?
that causes our highway tragedies.
There are more than 23,000,000 auto- J
mobile* in the country at this time j
and with our highways and city
streets so congested with traffic, in- ,
experienced drivers are just a menace
to mankind. Everyone of you read-!
ers will agree with me that this fast I
moving civilization demands the
above law to fit the times.
Vehicle Education In High Schoola
Now don't choke on this?because
1 know that it does sound like quite
an advance theory. We all know ihat
rhildr#*n like to drive. These youngs
Ur? who don't start before the age
of sixteen usually hare the whole
hearted support of their folks to dftive
on from their sixteenth birthday. Why
not inject into our regular school
curricular, during the last thirty days
of the graduating class, a regular
period for the education of every pu
pil as to how to properly drive and
take care of an automobile. Although '
the following words are a parody,
there is quite k bit of truth in them,
"an ounce of prevention is worth a
pound of cure." In my opinion, as
this mankind progresses in civiliza
tion, we will all follow that parody
more and more in word and spirit.
There are many educational methods
that would be highly successful at
this time among the present drfvers.
During this "drivers' school," it
would be a wonderful time to im
press upon them that one of the big
gest causes of accidents are careless
nss. We must now stop?hesitate
and think for a moment; "just to save '
a minute it may cost a life or maybe j
six months in bed." Yest we forget,
this "drivers' school" would teach
tlnjn the laws; as it 4s quite vital, due
to the fact they all plead ignorance.
Thorough Mechanical Examination
Defective mechanical equipment
plays an important part in about flf
teen to twenty per cent of our motor
vehicle d&iths and in nearly every
case these defects exist in antiquated
cars or are due to neglect in upkeep.
There is no doubt but that that con
dition can positively be remedied.
Just as long as a driver does his part
there isn't much 'chance of crashing
in a well conditioned automobile.
Now don't misunderstand me and
think that we can immediately get to
a point when we will not hare any
more accident*; but there is one sore
thing; we can improre conditions
which will have * tendency to lower
the death rate. Methods very similar
to this one which is about to follow
are being used successfully in other
states throughout the Union. Make
it law that every automobile be ex
amined quarterly (four times a year)
for all the important mechanical parts
including the lights, tires, brakes,
steering apparatus, gears, etc. The
system to be used is quite simple and
could be executed to the highest ef
ficiency; the law to be so far-reaching
that it would not do for an automo
bile to be on the highways without
the necessary identifications to show
that it has been examined for the
new incoming quarter.
State Highway Safety Commission
In order to kee? ?? close watch over
our traffic conditions, we should let
that be taken care of by a permanent
State Highway Safety Commission
within our State Police Patrol and
State Highway Commission combin
ed. This commission would also
have* the specific duty of carefully
watching the changing highway traf
fic conditions and corfect deficiencies
accordingly. (Personally I don't
Want to be tiring when wr reach the
state of perfection but we can al
ways make improvements).
And last but not least is the ex
pense of executing the above under
takings; if ever enacted into law.
Well, just off-hanfff l suggest that it
could directly be paid for through the
"automobile driver's license" fee. And
by the way, wouldn't you rather pay
to live than lose and die? It is up to
youl .7 ~ ?-?"7
attain f l
HAST AMAZING moof ever known of
EXIRG TRMIION *NN NON-SKID SAFETY
UP ... UP ... UP ... to 14,000 feet
above sea-level! Skirting yawning chasms,
tearing around 181 treacherous turns at
breath-taking speeds, daredevil drivers fight
their way up, grinding, pounding, swaying I
J Iii the anhfiaT'Pfke^s Peak Race, where a slip
means death, Firestone High Speed Tires were
- c.ii th> winning car, Surely this is the most,
amazing proof ever known of Extra Traction
?Non-Skid Safety?and Dependability!
The new Firestone High Speed Tires for
1934 have the toughest, longest wearing tread
Firestone has ever made. They have a wider
tread of flatter contour, deeper non-skid,
more and tougher rubber, giving you more
than 50% longer non-skid mileage.
Every cotton fiber inside every cord is
soaked and coated with Extra Rubber?eight
additional pounds absorbed by every 100
pounds of cotton cords. This is Gum-Dipping,
the Firestone patented process that provides
extra Blowout Protection.
#MGMON SKID
"MILEAGE
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nemember ? with every Cell pa the newest Firestone
Firestone Tire yon get the Triple
^ ?___ wwro, today and equip your ear yrith
?fsr IHs Agaimt AH Defects * the new Firestone Sigh Speed
WtfHftMj Tirol for im.
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FIRESTONE CENTURY PROGRESS TIRE f 7S
REDUCED PRICES FOR LIMITED TIME ONLY
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*? Factory am* Exhibition 9 9 ?Evary Monday Night ooar
BmOdtng, WorhTt Ftdr N. B. C. ? WEAF Htmorjk
MOST MILES PER I0LLAI
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FIRESTONE HIGH SPEED TIRES
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boon on tba vanning oar a in tho
daring Fika'e Paak climb wfcara
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bam on cfco 111 bum of tha
Washington (P.C.) Railway and
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"rTRISfcBEARS REPEIIAIILITY
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?dr Wgpo on tho Naiman Motora'
Ford V-l Truck that mada ?
minutaa, 90 aoeondt actual
runntnf tima.
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