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Taxes Retard Tobacco Consumption Average Decline in Prices To Grower Is Due to Taxes By A. R. DANIEL Taxation la Just As Much An Item of Cost As ?Any Other Cost Realizing the seriousness of the tobacco situation and the effect it is having on our Southern tobacco growers, and everyone who lives In the tobacco producing sections of the South, I am giving you some facts as they are, and after giv ing some time in studying the problems as they are today, my conclusions are as follows: Taxation is just as much a cost item as any other item of cost. The tax cost item on manufactured to bacco products made out of South ern grown leaf tobacco is entirely out of line with the tax cost item of any other article of consump tion or form of service used by consumers living in this country. This situation has resulted in retardation in the natural increase in consumption of cigarettes, espe cially those using the highest pric ed grades of Southern grown leaf tobacco It is rumored on good au thority that there has been an ac tual decline in the consumption of the higher priced or 15c per pack cigarettes and that the lower pric ed or 10c per pack cigarettes have not only accounted for the small increase-nr^the consumption of cigarettes but also accounted for some of the former consumption of the higher priced cigarettes. ===== Novel Cotton Jeicelry I'tied in Evening Wear ? For summer evening wear in clude in your wardrobe a multi colored cotton string necklace. Equally as unique during this cot ton summer is the cotton brace let, consisting of a loop of very, very heavy colored cotton rope This has resulted in a tremendous decline in the market price paid for the best grades of cigarette leaf tobacco produced by South ern farmers. While there has been an increase in the market price paid for the lower grades of Southern grown leaf tobacco, the total of this increase has not been as much as the decrease in the price paid for the better grades. All this has resulted in a grad ual decline in the average price paid the Southern farmer for his crops of leaf tobacco. Therefore, it can be stated as an undeniable fact that any action short of a sufficient revision downward of tax rate applying to each of the manufactured to bacco products made out of South ern grown leaf tobacco will not remedy this serious situation which is constantly growing worse. In addition to cigarrttes, which are made out of Southern grown leaf tobacco, we also have pipe smoking tobacco, roll-your-own smoking tobacco, plug and twist' chewing tobacco, and snuff; all of which are laboring under excess ive tobacco taxation; and all of which are made out of Southern grown leaf tobacco. roe consumption of pipe smok ing tobacco is now at a standstill and is showing no increase com mensurate with the increase in population. The manufacture of those to bacco products made out of Southern grown leaf tobacco is largely confined to the Southern States. Therefore, not only has the tobacco tax situation worked to the detriment of the Southern leaf grower, but it has and also is in creasingly working to the detri ment of the Southern industrial workers by curtailing and reduc ing the available sources for their employment. This, in turn, is det rimentally reacting on all classes of citizens living and having their being in those Southern states en gaged in the production of leaf to bacco, and the processing of it into manufactured tobacco products. To summarize:? Increased do mestic consumption of manufac tured tobacco products is the only practical and workable solution ol the distressing condition con fronting the Southern farmer pro ducers of leaf tobacco. The only [ way to accomplish this is by re ducing the price charged the con sumer for each manufactured to bacco product; and, in turn, the only wajf to accomplish this is through a sufficient downward re vision of the present- ?*ffs?. tax rate applying to each manuf^ctur ed tobacco product. In short, fol low the lead of our Northern and Western brethren in obtaining tax reduction relief for cigars. BIG TIRK DEALER Adding the well-known General Tires to his Urge list of accessories, Asa J. Manning is now recognized as one of the largest tire dealers in this section. The slight increase in consump tion of cigarettes is more than off set by the continuous loss in con sumption of several other of the manufactured tobacco products. This results in a continuing les sening market demand for the to tal crops of Southern grown leaf tobacco with an accompanying continual lowering of the average price paid the farmer therefor. To this reduction in total domestic consumption must be added the certainty of continued reduction in the expectation of domestically produced leaf tobacco. Record Acreage Tobacco Yield Martin County tobacco grow ers. boasting yields as high as 15 and 16 hundred pounds per acre, aren't even in the production clas sot Forest T. Minor, of Boyle County. Kentucky. Reports state that Farmer Minor produced 2, 348 pounds on a single acre last season, or almost three times the average acre yield that will be produced in Martin County this season. Incidentally, Farmer Mi nor sold his crop for $431 03 per acre. The land was in alfalfa, which had become about two-thirds blue grass before being plowed for tobacco. No commercial fertiliz er was used, but four tons of ma nure and 300 pounds of 20 per cent phosphate were spread. The tobacco was set June 1st, allowed to grow ty full bloom before top | ping and then the top two suck ers were allowed to stand until cutting time Harvesting started August 18th and the tobacco was put in a barn equipped with a ridge ventilator of the type rec ommended by the State College of Agriculture. No artificial heat was needed in the curing Cotton Shoes Are Beintt B orn By Younger Set ? Favored among the younger set cotton shoes are reaching a new high in summer fashions. Cotton wedges in multi-colored designs are tops in some of the country's most fashionable summer resorts "is . i , - f-y Thrifty and Thoughtful Farmers Prefer to TRADE AT DARDEN'S We know what the farmer wants We have what the farmer wants Thousands of our fine farmer friends, iheir wives anil rhildren have discovered in WARDEN'S a real treasure store of values. Everything for every member of the faniify with emphasis on quality without an increase in price. Don't fail to visit our store. Whether il'r neat. xtnrdy work riot hex and xlmex. or nifty Kfhuol-wrar for the ehildren. or form flattering liouxe or drexxy flrotsCn for the lady folkx?DARDEN'S mil |>i idefiitty and horieitlTy nay?"We lead with thrifty merehandixe for the thoughtful farmer and liix family." Farmers: Sell Your Tobacco in Williamston Darden's Dept. Store WILLIAMS TON NORTH CAROLINA
The Enterprise (Williamston, N.C.)
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