War Finance Corporation
Will Back Wheat Farmer
By Making Advance* to ( j?-operative Marketing Assoeia
lions Organization Which Aided (Cotton (.rowers in
1920 Slump Will go to Aid \\ lieat (?rowers
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Washington, Oct. :!?President Coolidge today asked a com
mittee of the War Finance Corporation, consisting of Managing
Director Eugene Meyer and former Representative Frank W.
Mondell to proceed immediately to the Northwest and do what
ever will be helpful to the agricultural interests of that region.
Specifically the President
hopes the American farmers
will be encouraged to form co
operative corporations similar
to those which have been so suc
cessful in the marketing of cot
ton, rice, tobacco and other pro
ducts.
The greatest weakness In the Hlt
uation from the viewpoint of tin1
Federal Government is the lack of
an orderly marketing system in thr
wheat bolt. Very few co-operatives
have been formed.
There In grave doubt among the
moot competent authorities here
that the wheat crop will bo any
where near the estimates that have
been made. Information kneps
coming in from sources that seem
well Informed that the crops are
'"5t~!iii^7rTirTifi?~b^ri represent
ed and that consequently the sur
plus tylll not be as great as was at
first believed, all of which rh^uid
tend to Increase *rMteriully the price
^ in ilie absence of co-operative or
ganizations?which, by the way, are
not holding organizations?the farm
ers have all been tempted to sell at
once. Reports of large surpluses
and other factors usually have in
fluenced the producers to try to get
rid of their crop at whatever
seemed to be the best price. The
purpose of the co-operative organi
zations is to insure the farmer the
very best price possible in market
ing his product. Collective market
ing Is ever so much more effective
than Individual effort and this is no
longer a theory but a proved fart.
Naturally the Government makes
advances of money to the co-opera
tives and part of this in turn is giv
en to the farmer so that lie can al
most Immediately get the benefit of
the transaction and pay his debts.?
Relatively little risk has been taken.
In the financing of these co-opera
tive organizations. The War Finance
Corporation was organized partlcu-l
larly -to extend emergency credit and
bring about in America a more or-j
derly system of marketing through j
(fie use <?f timely credits. Its name
now really should be the Emergency
Finance Corporation, though most of
the troubles which It is trying to
cure are the direct outgrowth of war
conditions.
The Coolldge administration has
been listening for several days to all
sorts of plans to help the farmer
but the solution at last determined
upon Is to bring the Federal Gov
ernment into closer touch with the
producers by sending the directors
of the War Finance Corporation out
to the West to confer in person with
the agricultural Interests most af
fected at the moment.
K was the War Finance Corpora
tion which came to the rescue of
the livestock Industry and helped
materially in the aotton situation.
Eugene Meyer who has been travel
ling constantly from one end of the
country to the other since the War
Finance Corporation wns revived
four years ago is probably as fami
liar with credit and marketing con
ditions as anybody In the adminis
tration.
Mr. Meyer has also been making
an Investigation of European condi
tions and believes there is 1 it11* op
portunity to finance an export trade
under present fluctuations of foreign
currencies hut is rather Inclined to
the Idea that the export situation
will cure itself as tho surplus is
gradually reduced by home consump
tion. Wheat prices are higher than
they were a year ago at the corres
ponding period and the general be
lief now Is that thev will tend to go
higher and make the farmers hap
pier as the true figures about the ex
isting crop are ascertained.
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a heart-to-heart talk with Bernarr
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"Men Are So Queer" are Just n few
of the many articles and. storlca It
contains.
Mr. and Mra. W. J. Wood ley Br.,
Mr. and Mra. J. W. Foreman. Mr.
and Mra. Thorburn Bennett and Mrs.
Clay Foreman motored to Norfolk
for the day Tuesday.
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Better Babies Will
Attend The Fair
Prize Winners in Contest to be
Decided Monday and Ride
In Parade Tuesday
The Better Babies Contest, inaugu
rated by the welfare officer, the so
iclai service department of the Wo
\ man's Club and the Mothers- Club
will come to a close next Monday.
J The babies who entered the contest
this summer will meet at the Com-1
inunity House on Fleetwood street[
und will be examined by the same
phyrician who examined them then. I
examined, and the prizes will be
awarded not to the most beautiful ba-!
,*>'y or to the fattest baby but to the
baby that shows the greatest im
provement since entering the contest.
I The prize winning babien will bo!
taken to the Fair in the parade Tuen- i
dsy with their blue ribbons pinned
on them, so that the world may seo j
what handsome little fellows Hhe^*
are.
Blame Boll Weevil
for Anthracnos*
Insert Carries Fungi Harmful t*
Cotton, Investiunfioii
Shows
Raleigh. Oct. t ? Supplementing
the announcement made by the De
partment of Agriculture Tuesday
that investigations had proved that,*
the boll weevil is largely respon- J
Bible for the spread of anthracnoae.-f
or "boll rot," 8. G. Lehman, of -tlieT*
^Ivlsion of plant disease work, who .
conducted the investigations, today J
| issued a statement giving fuller ac-'l
'count of the discovery. ,?
The investigations were conducted |
by Lehman on the suggestion of Br. ;.
,F. A. Wolf, according to the an
nouncement by the Department of
I Agriculture. Officials of the de
partment said the discovery was
original, it having never before been ,
'determined, in so far as they knew, I
(that the boll weevil carried spores'!
on Its body.
Other fungi harmful to cotton also
are carried by the weevil, Dr. Leh
man said:
"The staff of this office has for
some time suspected from a number j
of field observations made that the1
boll weevil was aiding in the spread
of anthrqenose from diseased to
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healthy cotton. We wanted to make*
sure that our st%>plcions were cor
rect. so we determined to trace the
matter. I caught a number of boll
weevils from a field In which about
thirty per cent of the plants bore
bolls infected with anthracnose.
Knell of these weevils was placed
in a-separate*sterile vial and carried
to the laboratory, where it was given
a batli in sterile/ water in order to
wash its body of such disease spores
as might be on it. When this wash
water was examined, no less than 17
per cent of the weevils collected were
carrying these disease germs on their '
bodies. Furthermore, these spores
germinated readily when placed in
proper conditions. We also found
some other disease germs along with
the anthracnose. and so it seems that
the pest Is charged with another
crime about as hlenous and costly as
the original one.
"Anthracnoso is one of the most
serious plant diseases in the South.
It is caused by a fungus which grows
in the tissues of the cotton plant and
is carried over winter on and in
heed from disease and plants. It
causes the death of many seedlings
early in the spring. A more obvious
phase of its deadly work is seen in
the rotting bolls about the time they
are ready to open.
"In this case the lint of the >11-!
sease and boll is either completely
destroyed or greatly reduced in j
value. The fungus wheh produces ;
this disease propagates itself by J
forming large numbers of spores on
the surface of the disease and bolls. '
When tliese are transferred to heal
thy bolls, y?ey in turn become dis
eased. We now know that the boll
weevil tramples around carelessly
over these diseased bull*, acciden
tally acquires a load of anthracrose
spores on his feet and then carries
them to other plants which m.ty be
free from this disease.
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Word has b?-? n received by^Irs.
Joini F. Williams, 20<? West Fear
Jm; street, of the death of her very !
Viar friend, Mrs. H. C. Godfrey, a
former re?l?!?-nt of this city, at the
iioiu.' ut Airs. W. Harold Richardson.
h? r adopted daughter, 011 Friday, I
September 21.
Mr. and Mrs. Godfrey lived for
many year* ou South Koad street,
but about eight years a?o moved to
Lambert's Point. There Mr. Godfrey
died, and the body was brought to
Elizabeth City for interment in Hol
lywood.' Mrs. Godfrey returned to
Lambert's Point and lived there un
til the marriage of her adopted
dauuhter. but since that time had
made here home with her dauuhti-r
at Mexico. New York.
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rapidly, or that dish-washing could he disposed of in such short order. She would have marveled
at the effectiveness of vacuum cleaners, hetter cleansers and the many household helps designed
to lighten, quicken and improve the work.
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