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Tobacco farmers in six states took a progres
sive step last Saturday when they voted for a
three-vcar production program Under normal
conditions, the action of the thousands of far
mers could be expected to mark the beginning
of a new era in farming. for it is definitely a
move to establish agriculture on^a basis of
equality with industry
While the three-year program offers about
the only hope the farmer, can expect, it will
naturally be hampered?by?world eonditions.
Under such conditions it is not reasonable to
expect tobacco prices to jump to a 25-cent av
erage, but farmers can be thankful that prices
will not fall below the 15-cent average level.
It is true that one-year programs have been
in effect during recent years, but the uncertain
ty added to the program by an adverse vote in
the following year made the plan hardly as ef
fective as is to be expected under the longer
term program. With a return to normal con
ditions, it will be well for the farmers to con
sider a lhnger-term program ten years or more,
that agriculture might be geared up with in
dustry and i), assured of an equal show in the
economic world
It will sftso be well for farmers to keep tuned
to the i haiiei s in thin world and nut wait until
they are knocked to their knees before taking
action as they did in handling the 1939 crop.
Hitler Talks Attain
Hitler addressed the world again recently,
offering the world peace or destruction a la
barbarian style. It was a gryat time in Ger
many when the beasts enjoyed promotion day,
the empty honors being founded in tin- slaugh
ter of helpless people and the enslavement of
whole nations.
In his ultimatum to England. Hitler honored
an empty hope if that last bulwark of democ
racy would yield. And if it refused to yield, ho
offered complete destruction such as the world
has never known.
It is apparent that the British prefer destruc
tion to the mad man's promises For the dura
linn of his two-hour siwech. Hitler forgot his
policies as expressed by his old backer. Gener
al Ludendorff and in his book. "Mein Kamf".
"After the next victorious war we must
strike the conquered foe so mercilessly that his
spirit and the spirit of Ins children will be
crushed for generations thj?cunqueied?foe
must ever again dare to look a German in the
face as an equal He must recognize him as his
overlord.""
It is apparent then that Hitler was holding
out poison ivy as an olive branch when he blab
bered two hours last week. But there are those
who would accept it and forget the declara
tions as expressed above by Ludendorff and
by Hitler himself.
Hitler's talk was empty of any plan to re
store orderto the workfother than-for Germany
itself. He pointed out that Germany was to
enslave the world and that it was up to the
world to say if it should be done peacefully or
by bloody force.
Commenting on Hitler's speech, the Char
lotte News says, "The speech of Adolf Hitler
was the same sort of hodgepodge of flat false
hoods, twisted logic, pretense of sweet reason
ableness, spacious promises and blatant boasts
with which he has always sought tn rlnthe and
so far as possible, achieve his brutal purpose.
"It may be that Adolf Hitler can and will de
stroy the British Navy and over-run England
as easily as he over-ran France. Perhaps that is
still the most probable thing. But the Third
Horseman of the Apocalypse?Famine?is al
ready riding in Europe. Adolf Hitler will feed
his holy Germans, first and last, so long as
there is food anywhere in his conquered do
main. Already the cattle are being taken out of
Poland and Norway and France. But behind
the Third Horseman the Fourth is beginning
to ride also.
."Influenza is raging in Poland on the heels
of hunger. And to Plague not even Hitler can
aajr "Beyond this frontier thou shalt not paas.'
And, though the Germans are fed now, yet their
from the long privation# they
have endured in preparation for their unmatch
ed crime
"And so it may be that Adoif Hitler is not
quite certain about England, that he greatly
prefers not to take the final gamble?knowing
well that the price of losing is the rope for him
I self and his gang and the destruction of his in
famous people. Or perhaps he only plays to the
gallery of the world as a "humane man" ? a
gesture which is likely to be wasted on all but
the sappiest of American isolationists.
"Anyhow, having begun as God. he proceed
ed to hark back to the Versailles Treaty as his
justification, to explain sweetly that all he was
fighting for was the liberty of Germany. But
the trotting out of the threadbare old Ver
sailles claim is proof positive, if it were needed,
of his lack of good faith. Whoever knows any
thing about the Treaty of Versailles knows that
| what Adolf Hitler has done, what he has said
! plainly he means to do, to Norway, Belgium,
[ Holland. France and England if he conquers
her, makes the Treaty of Versailles look like
i a manifesto of the Ladies' Aid Society.
"Forty million wet-eyed Frenchmen will tell
you that the one fault of the Treaty of Ver
sailles was that it didn't make sure that the
brute nation was destroyed when it was safe
ly under the heel of the democratic nations.
Versailles took no proper German territory,
save some fairly worthless colonies. Versailles
did not attempt the conquest of Europe. Ver
sailles did not set out to destroy the culture of
Germany and replace it with barbarism
And having disposed of his justification, he
appealed to 'common sense,' held himself out,
not as a conqueror dictating terms to England
but as victor offering fair and honorable terms
?which he failed to name . .."
Economic Isolation
Those of us who still maintain that what hap
pens in Europe does not affect the good old Unit
ed States, and that we should go into our shell
possibly will find out some day that the shell
is going to harden and that we will dry up as
the kernel of a nut dry rots in the sands.
After Germany reduces its newly conquered
subjects to bondage and Japan masters one
fourth of the world's population in China, the
United States will find it difficult to maintain
its standard of living in competition with the
products made, bv slaves at the direction of
ruthless leaders.
It may be possibly at the forthcoming Pan
American conference at Havana to purchase
an economic balance with our South American
neighbors, but just as the customer patronizes
his home merchant when credit and other fa
mail order house to make his cash purchoses so
will Sooth; Amei iru turn In Germany and JapaS
for the cheap goods made by the slaves of Hit
ler and Japan.
We continue to talk about isolation. Well,
we are going to be isolated all right, and it
might be that the lines will be drawn around
us by Germany. Late reports from the commen
tators state that once the pace slackens in Eu
rope, Hitler will start his conquest of South
America, that he will take over Brazil not by
planes, ships or an invading army but manly
by telephone.
Let Senator Wheeler and his followers go in
to their shell when they should be out and ac
tive on the world front ,and through their vol
untary isolation they will dry up as harvested
fruit
Senator (.arter (Hats' Escapade
There is no objection to Senator Carter Glass'
marriage even though he is H2 years old, but
the very fact that the old coger is getting mar
ried at this late date would indicate that his
usefulness as a political leader is about over,
and that he would render the country a service
bv stepping out of the position he now holds.
If by any chance Virginia isn't rearing any
more politicians. North Carolina would gladly
lend her either one of her sons and rejoice at
the opportunity of selecting another, Mr. Glass
has spent his clay in Washington, and it is time
that he retired to his Virginia farm.
Silver Linings
If world conditions bring about a shortage
of tin in Uie UnitedTJtates, many fear it would
be disastrous because of the dependence of Am
ericans on canned food. But every emergency
seems to bring with it new resources; for in
stance, it has been pointed out that though Am
erica is short of tin it hais plenty of silver, so
that in the future containers might possibly
be silver lined. If the silver lining runs short,
well, then there's the gold deposit at Fort Knox.
Appreciative Of Our Freedom
Now that they are having to pay for it in
the form of increased defense taxes the peo
ple will possibly become more appreciative of
their freedom.
The disheartening thing about it is that we
may be called upon to pay so much that we
can't maintain our luxurious scale of living
and then another crisis will be upon us. If the
American people would save themselves and
preserve their freedom they must learn to fore
go a few of their personal wants and realize
that the seriousness of the situation is facing
all the world j
"War was hell even in Sherman's day, but
this is the first time that Satan took charge
personally."?Robert Quillen
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Interesting Bits of
Agricultural News
Milk Consumption
The consumption of fluid milk and
cream is increasing, following the
improvement in business employ
ment and payrolls, reports the U. S.
Bureau ??i Agricultural Economics.
Same
Income from the 1939 national to
bacco crop was the same as that of
1938, although last year's crop was
400,000,000 pounds larger, reports the
U. S. Bureau of Agricultural Eco
nomics. _ __J
Progress
For every 30 seconds that ticked
off from the beginning to the end of
1939, one person in a rural commun
ity receh . i vice for the first time
from an HE A financed electric pow
er system.
Eradication
Practical eradication of Bang's dis
ease from dairy and breeding cattle
in 209 counties in 17 states, of which
North Carolina is one, has been an
nounced by the U. S. Department of
Agriculture
Search
A search for new and extended
usco for animal fats and poultry pro
ducts and by-products will be in
cluded in the initial wefrk of the U.
S. Department of Agriculture region
al 1 aboratories.
Cotton Trade
The Commodity Credit Corpora
tion has accepted proposals from "21
cotton firms to exchange 28.284 bales
of government-owned cotton for pri
vately owned cotton""of equal value.
War
nnt yrt appreciably
United States export
trade, and as a result, export figures
for last year show a decrease, while
imports increased.
Forests
Five national forests in North Car
olina contributed $9,882 74 to the
State as 25 per cent of the gross re
ceipts from operating the forests in
1939
Upward
National income turned upward in
1939. the net value of goods and
services produced being estimated
at $68,500,000,000, according to the
U S. Department of Commerce.
Payments
The U S. Department of Agricul
ture will begin distributing $225,
OuO.OOO in parity payments within
a few weeks to producers of wheat,
cotton, corn, and rice who cooperate
in the AAA program.
Eggs
Carry ever
The U. S. Department of Agricul
ture has announced that the world
carryover of American cotton on Au
gust 1 would likely be about 1,000,
000 bales smaller than the record
carryover of August 1, 1939.
Imperta
United States imports during the
crop yrnr 1938-1939 were equivalent
Ma
while farm exports represented pro
i duce from approximately 28,375,000
acres.
Seed
As a result of the European war,
United States farmers may be call
! ed upon to produce a larger portion
I of their seed supplies than they have
i for many years, says the U. S. De
j partment of Agriculture.
Brighter
With a decrease in the pig crop
and increased lard buying by the
British, the hog situation is looking
I brighter fur American growers
prices have already started advanc
ing slightly.
Income
American farmers in 1939 had aj
gross farm income oT $9,769,000,000i
from farm production and govern
inent payments, .announces the U. I
S. Bureau Agricultural Econom- j
ics.
Seed
As a result of the European war,
United States farmers may be called
upon to produce a larger portion of
American seed supplies than they
have for many years. J
Since the program was authorized
in December. 1838. the Surplus Mar
keting Administration has bought
for dometic relief distribution 241,
000,000 pounds of lard and pork
products.
The vast U -S. defense program
may be at least a partial solution to
the problem of finding use for the
Western Hemisphere's cotton, cop
per and other materials formerly sold
to European countries
Cotton
A total of 24.395,000 acres in the
United States was planted to cot
ton and in cultivation at the end of
June, according to a late report on
the size of this year's crop.
Decline
A decline of $27,000,000 in exports
during April, with the heaviest de
crease in Scandinavian and Dutch
trade, is shown in a late U. S. Com
merce Department report.
Extension
Immediate extension of the FSCC
food stamp plan to include the en
tire nation as an emergency move
has been advocated by a large num
ber of the country's grocerymen.
Tulips
Of the 100,000,000 tulip bulbs ship
ped into the United States each year,
the Netherlands was responsible for
98,500,000, so a new industry may be
created in this country through ne
cessity.
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NOTICE OF SALE
Under and by virtue of the power
of sale contained in that certain deed
of trust dated January 2, 1930. ex
ecuted by Augustus Moore to S. C.
Bragaw arid recorded in the office
of the Register of Deeds of Martin
County in Book B-3, page 316 (the
undersigned having been substitut
ed as trustee in the place of the said
S. C Bragaw) I will kU before the
^'glhnnif of liartin County
on Friday, August 16. 1M0, at twelve
o'clock noon for cash that said tract
or parcel of land lying and being in
Williams Township, Martin County.
North Carolina, which is described
as follows, to wit:
Adjoining the lands of Major
Gardner, Church Hardison and J.
L. Hardison and located on the "New
Road" which leads from the Griffin
Road to the Washington Road and
being well known as the Augustus
Moore home place, and containing
37 acres more or less.
The above described land will be
sold subject to a first mortgage to
the North Carolina Joint Stock
Land Bank of Durham. The unpaid
balance of the indebtedness thereby
secured is $711.37 plus interest from
May 1, 1940 at a rate of 6 per cent,
said mortgage being recorded in the
Martin County records. Book 0-2,
pags 527.
This July 15, 1940
W. B. CARTER.
jyl6-4t Substituted Trustee
ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE
Having qualified as administrator
of the estate of Levi Hardison, de
ceased, of Martin County, North
Carolina, this is to nutify all persons
having claims against said estate to
present them to the undersigned on
or before the 22nd day of June,
1941, or this notice will be pleaded
in bar of their recovery. All persons
indebted to said estate will please
make immediate payment.
This the 22nd day of June, 1940.
HAULCY HARDISON,
Administrator of the estate of
j25-6t Levi Hardison, deceased.
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