The En terprise
Published Every Tuesday and Friday by the
ENTERPRISE PUBLISHING CO.
WTU.1AMSTON. NORTH CAROLINA
w. C. MANNING
Editor ? 1908-1938
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Tue?Aay. June 27. JVM.
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There is a marked opposition being express
ed by farmers to a shorter day for tobacco auc
tion sales, but it is reasonable to believe there
is some advantage to be found in the limited
selling period, an advantage that should tend
to prevent the marked price fluctuations from
day to day that have been experienced season
in and season out for a long period.
There is something peculiar about the oppo
sition, some suggesting that the big markets
are supporting it because the smaller markets
will gain an advantage. The time has come to
stop giving the buyers and the warehousemen
first consideration in every deal under the sun
and let the farmer, the fellow who raises and
offers the tobacco for sale, be considered for
once. ?
It is reasonable to believe that the seven-hour
selling day has choked the factories of the buy
ing companies, making it next to impossible for
the companies to buy freely. Give a buyer a
clean factory every morning when hi' goes on
the market, and tobacco prices paid the farmer
will be stronger and will not reflect a low
trend one day and a high trend the next.
The big warehouseman on the big market has
never worried before about the farmer's tobac
co as it was piled on the floor to wait over night
for the buyers late the next day. It is apparent
that there is some advantage in the short sell
ing period for the farmer, but not for the big
warehouseman. Yet, ail the reports maintain
that the farmers, the farmers, and nobody else
are against the five-hour sidling day.
Farmers, the proposed change might delay
you a week, two weeks or three weeks in com
pleting the marketing of your crop, but at the
samiMimc it might mi-.-in ymi will he more than
repaid by being delayed. But don't worry about
it for when the United States Tobacco Associa
tion and the big market operators get together
in West Virguua this week the pleas of a rag
ged rear farmer in Martin County will never
be heard that far, not even with the Farm Bur
eau Federation, the Grange, the Extension Di
vision and the Advisory Committee around to
help him holler.
?They^say this company- is strong today and
that company is weak Isn't it possible that the
weak company is holding off the market until
crowded conditions in its factory can be relicv
ed, and that?the strong?company?liua umple
room to take "care of its purchases for the day?
Of course there is that same old manipulation,
but the shorter selling days will lessen by one
the excuses for all that price manipulation.
Lost in tin? C.hutin
While there is a lot of loud talking going on
about marketing farm products, the farmer,
lost in a chasm that has been worn deeper and
deeper by the manipulators, continues to cry
for help. Senator Jotiah Bailey's bill to help
marketing activities may be advanced in good
faith and may be of some value, but until
somebody gets in the thick of the fog and learns
why 100 pounds of irish potatoes are taken
away from the farmer at a ridiculously low
price and then sold to the "poor, tax-ridden con
sumer" at an exhorbitant price, all this mar
keting talk will amount to little or nothing
Experiencing a glutted market a few days
ago, farmers were offering irish potatoes for
20 cents a hundred pounds. It is true the pota
toes were graded seconds. At the same time,
irish potatoes were being sold in grocery stores
at the rate of 20 pounds for fifty cents. And the
potatoes, while graded as No. ones, were of lit
tle better quality than those bought at 20 cents
a hundred.
There is too everlasting much difference in
the prices received by the farmer for his pro
duce and the prices paid by the consumers for
that produce.
The whole business of getting farm products
from the farm to the consumer is apparently
based on robbery of the Jesse James type. If it
Is not robbery then there is something radical
ly wrong somewhere, and it would seem that
an extensive investigation would be worth
more to the fanner and ultimate consumer
than a half baked plan to advance marketing
services for farm commodities. If Mr Bailey is
interested in solving the marketing question
then let him get busy and help xe4f down lhu
monopolies that fix the prices to the farmer on
the one hand and the prices to the consumer on
the other. Let him get busy at the foundation
of the problem, and don't spend millions gath
ering more data for the monopolies to use at the
price-fixing table. Let him face the bare facts
such as the cost of production and a fair price
for the consumer.
There is no opposition to Mr. Bailey's bill
here. Everything that holds promise to relieve
the farmer in his desperate plight should be
carefully considered, but don't advance some
scheme that will make the rich richer and the
farmer and consumer poorer. Mr. Bailey can
-grc to the" ifisK""pofalo "to start lus marketing
improvement program, for there has been en
ough blood money lost there to feed the starv
ing in China for a generation.
.4 Timely H unting
The vacation season is underway again, and
characteristic of the American, the vacationist
spends days and weeks advancing detailed
plans that will afford pleasure every minute
during the few precious days that the worker
can rightfully call his own. Little thought is
given to a safety program that increased dan
gers might be minimized. We go bursting head
long into the dangers an they come, taking un
necessary chances along the road, in the sun
and at the seashore. The time seT apart for
pleasure, past records show, has proved a time
for increased deaths along the highway and in
the surf.
There arc other dangers allied with the va
cation period which the State Board of Health
points out in the following release:
Headlines in the same paper emblazoned
the fact that one man had won an automobile
race and that another had been killed in a spec
tacular crash-up of three cars," declared J. M.
Jarrett, Consultant in Sanitary Engineering,
Division of County Health Work, State Board
of Health.
Mr. Jarrett added significantly:
"As sad and as regretful as these accidents
may be, there were many other deaths during
these same days that went unnoticed-and will
never reach the front page or headlines of the
papers, the reason being that we have no com
pilation of statistics on the number of vacation
ists and travelers who drank from some open
unprotected spring or well and contracted in
testinal diseases which will cause them to die.
"Nor do we have any statistics on the num
ber of people who ate tainted or unclean food
and were made sick, nor do we have ajjy idea
of the total number of people who were bitten
by mosquitoes later to develop malaria and pos
sibly die. And most important of all, we never
know the number of children who were fed un
clean and unsafe milk which will cause their
deaths before the summer is over.
"No headlines were given and no headlines
will ever be given for such things as these. They
are things which we have come to accept as
necessary ru the normal course of events. We
have become fatalists and fail to get excited
over tlie number of babies' or children's deaths
and fail to stop and think of the simple precau
tions we could take to correct this situation.
Such items as these have ceased to be news but
the fact still remains In spite of what our reac
tions might be, that many children and many
adults too will die as a result of the hazards en
countered and ignored on their summer vaca
tions, because someone did not stop to think or
beware. Therefore, when you plan your trip
in order that von may rptnrn in your h.?mn in
a refreshed and healthy state of mind and body
but plan also to take those little, but necessary,
pii caulions lor the protection of your' most
valuable asset?your health, and the health of
your family."
Confuting ?~
Talk and action by Republican Congressmen
and a few of the good old Democrats, too, is
really confusing when it comes down to econ
omizing and getting the country out of debt.
Many of the Republcan boys who have had
right much to say about Roosevelt spending
are recorded as having voted for the Townsend
penson plan. And that was bad enough, but the
climax was not reached until just a few days
ago when that bitter New Deal critic and ultra
conservative Congressman Woodrum, of Vir
ginia, asked for a $340,000 appropriaton to fi
nance Byrd on another escapade to the South
Pole.
One of the troubles with the spending pro
gram is that every fellow was licking the pork
barrel for himself and showing no great con
cern about fhe general welfare of the country
and the masses
The acts of the boys up in Washington would
not be so confusing if they would stop, as has
been suggested, and considered that economy
preaching would be more convincing if the
preachers could show a greater percentage of
consistent practicing.
Splendid Advice Bui Not Complete
It has been found by State College's Uncle
Jim that individual farmers who study and un
derstand national farm problems are better
able to manage their farms on a profitable ba
sis by growing the crops ior which there is a
demand.
This is splendid advice, but it is hardly com
plete. The Martin County farmer would like
to know what kind of S crop is in demand.
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Rural Puuer Improve*
?Bladen County Home*
Rural power for Bladen County
has stirred up interest among pros
pective customers as to the number
and kind of electrical appliances they
can install in their homes
Raiting Of (.a[tonf l?
Prices for broilers have been so
low this year that Farm Agent G. D.
White has been advising Henderson
County farmers to caponize at least
a part of their male birds.
Service for All
Even though our business lias made all in
crease. ?e maintain u personal touch with our cus
tomers. We find that our patronage, each with in
dividual problems, appreciates the time tliut we
devote to them.
We are here to serve you aud to give you ev
ery possible consideration.
Our hank is conducted to give efficient,
courteous service to all accounts whether large or
small. Let us attend to your hanking needs.
Member of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.
Guaranty Bank &
Trust Company
WILLIAMSTON, NORTH CAROLINA
Farmers Who Burn
Timber Penalized
No benefit payments will be made
by the Triple-A to any farmer who
willfully burns over, or permits or
does not attempt to prevent the
burning over of woodland on a farm,
announces E. Y. Floyd. AAA execu
tive officer of State College. County
and State AAA committees are em
powered to withhold payments in
full or in part, based on their in
vestigations of the individual cases,
he explained.
"Conservation of timber resources
is an important part of the Agricul
tural Conservation program, and a
person who willfully destroys wood
land defeats the purpose of the pro
gram," Floyd declared.. "Bujned-ov
er woodland not only destroys val
uable timber,- but it kills vegetation
which"bontrols erosion and prevents
washing of adjoining cultivated
fields."
The AAA officer said the State
Triple-A committee will act in cases
where a farmer owns land in coun
ties other than the one where the
offense occurs.
"The county committee will con
sider each case of burning woodland
in the light of information furnished
to it by community committeemen,
local and State supervisors, repre
sentatives of the State and U. S. For
est Services, and any other person
! who is in a position to furnish sat
isfactory information. The Forest
Services are requesting their repre
; Toboeeo Should Br Her vetted
When Leaves Turn Yellow
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Harvesting of tobacco should be
gin when the bottom leaves begin
to turn yellow. The first leaves can
be pulled a little greener than later
primings, if the leaf is mature. Only
uniform, ripe, well-developed leaves
should be pulled as this uniformity
in priming will add much to the
quality. In normal seasons tobacco
should be primed each week for best
results. Proper care in handling the
leaves so they will not break or
bruise will pay dividends in a better
quality and grade of the cured weed.
sentatives to report all such cases
coming to their attention directly to
the appropriate county AAA office,"
Floyd said.
The penalty for burning over
woodland is a part of the Federal
Farm act of 1938, and applies to all
parts of the nation.
EXECUTRIX NOTICE
Having this day qualified as exec
utrix of the estate of M. D. Ayers,
deceased, late of Martin County,
North Carolina, this is to notify all
persons having claims against said
estate to exhibit same for payment
on or before the 2nd day of June,
1940, or this notice will be pleaded in
bar of their recovery. All persons in
debted to said estate will please
come forward and make immediate
payment.
This the 2nd day of June, 1939.
MRS, ANNIE AYERS,
Executrix of the estate of
uneMit^^^^^^^A^ers^Deceased
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