taht Marketing Season Starts
| With Two Billions on Hand
Washington?The 1940-41 market-1
; season for flue-cured tobacco!
sned with a supply of more than I
0 billion pounds on hand?about the
ne as the record supply of the
19-40 season. Crop conditions on
y 1st indicated a 1940 flue-cured
>p of 677 million pounds. This is
out 480 million pounds less that
1 record 1939 crop, but this decrease
current production is almost offset
the estimated increase of about
5 million pounds in the current car
?over.
Exports of flue-cured during the
39-40 season totaled 252 million
unds, compared with 362 million in
18-39. Exports to the United King-'
m totaled only 97 million pounds
contrasted with normal exports of
>und 200 million pounds. Exports
China and the Netherlands, how
er, were above those for the 1938-39
ison. No immediate improvement
the export situation as a whole is
ely.
July 20, about 86 per cent of the
te-cured growers voting in a ref
endum favored marketing quotas
r the three years 1941-42-43.
Burlev About The Same
Total supply of bur'.ey is about the
me as that of last year. The 1940
rley crop is indicated at about 344
llion pounds ?somewhat more than
i marketing suota for this kind of
>acco. The July 1st indication for
& Maryland crop, on the other hand,
for a crop of 24 million pounds?6
llion pounds less than the 1939
3 p. The fire-cured and dark air
red crops are about the same as in
39, and except for the adverse ex
rt situation would be in a relatively
vorable position.
Pitrar Tohaeco Less
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total cigarette consumption, accord
ing to the Bureau of Agricultural
Economics, United States Department
of Agriculture.
Chaotic World Demands
Leaders From Business
Stratum, Urges Pitkin
"If there was ever a time in the
last million years when we needed
leaders, it is now, now where there
is chaos about us," challenges Walter
B. Pitkin, distinguished author, edu
cator, and analyst of our times, writ
ing in the current Rotarian maga
zine. "If ever we bring order out
of that chaos, it will be through
leadership?large and small?coming
from the business and professional :
stratum of our population."
"There's a challenge to the busi- .
1 ness and professional men of our
planet," Dr. Pitkin asserts. "There's
a job to do. The world is on fire.
You can't put it out with an eight
ihour day. You can't put it out by
reading books on the nature of com
bustion. You can't put it out by
debating all night whether it is bet- '
ter to pour water on it or to throw
sand on it or to cove it with wet
blankets. Greater businessmen of the
Old World once sa at their desks,
twiddling thumbs and musing over
the sad state of affairs. Where are
they now? Ask the wind. Great
statesmen delayed in the hope of
finding some easy way out of their
worries. Where are they now? Once
again I suggest: ask the wind."
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Total supply of domestic cigar to
cco in 1940-41 is estimated to be
out 385 million pounds; the 1939
pply was about 400 million pounds,
nailer crops of filler and wrapper,
id reduced stocks of filler and bin
r account for the decrease. A mod
ate increase in consumption of
fas seems probable in 1940-41.
Tax-paid withdrawals of cigarettes
June 1940 totaled 17,566,000,000?a
cord number for any single month,
obablv in anticipation of the 3ddi
>nal Federal tax of one-half cent1
ir pack effective July 1st. With
awals for the fiscal year ended June'
40 were 177,684,459.000 cigarettes,
crease in consumer income over the
lar ended June 1939. Cigar with
awals for the year ended June 1940
ere 3,514,592,000 cigars, 61 million
ore than a year earlier. Prospective
crease in consumer incomes over tne
ist year may partly or wholly offset
e effect on cigarette consumption
' the increased Federal tax. In that
'en, the increasing number of snook
's and apparently continuing shift
om other forms of tobacco to cigar
tes may result in a further rise in
io tne tnousanus ox sjiuux-wwu
businessmen who ask "How can I
help?" Arthur Pitkin says: "The an
swer reduced to its lowest terms
runs thus: Liberty, like charity, be
gins at home. Stay home and work
from there outward. . . Where do you
I live? Rio de Janeiro, you say? Or
! Hartford, Wisconsin? Sorry, but
I that's the wrong address. You live
in the world. Old frontiers are going
down in flames. All of us are citizens
of the world, not by choice and plan
ning, but by default. . . The need is
urgent for men in small communities
and large who are experts and can
[ lead wisely."
! How become a leader? "Give some
I thing :o live for. . . plan far ahead!"
Dr. Pitkin declares. "That is primary
advice for any man who would lead
his fellows. But there is more to this
matter of leadership, much more.
I Here are six things leaders, especial
ly those in politics and government,
must do: 1) perceive current trends;
2) evaluate these trends and take a
definite position toward them, draw
ing up a program of action; 3) per
suade many people to accept this
program; 4) organize all such peo
ple to the end of putting this pro
gram over; 5) deal with opponents
effectively during the campaign to
put it over; 6, administer the pro
gram after it has been adopted"
Spain Rations Tobacco
Smoking1 in Shortage
Washington?Shortage of tobacco
in Spain, which it appears may con
tinue for sometime, has resulted in
the government introducing measure?
to restrict consumption by the ration
ing of sales. Most of the leaf used
in Spain is imported from abroad)
and the country's scarcity of foreign
exchange, the dislocation of shipping
connections, the sharp rise in freight
and insurance rates with the result
ant higher costs for leaf have reduc
ed the leaf supply below normal con
sumption, according to a report from
the Ameriran Embassy at Madrid
More permanent system of ration
ing will be carried out in cities and
towns though the use use of tobacco
rationing cards, and in the country
villages by local authorities.
Definite information regarding the
supply of leaf tobacco on hand in
Spain is not available, but stocks,
and particularly those of American
leaf, which prior to the country's
civil war accounted for about 15 per
cent of total consumption of foreign
leaf in Spain, are very low. Exports
of American leaf to Spain since 1936
have been small.
Sales of destroyers to Britain fav
ored by voters in Gallup survey.
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If all the 1940 O crop plus the supply
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in the were used for food, it
would provide every M and J in I I;
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the with TWICE as much
^Q^and other wheat foods as each ate
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in the entire year of 1939. w
Under the Triple-A program, com
medcial farms have wheat allotments
just the same as cotton and bohacco
farms have special cotton and tobac
co allotments. However, this does
not affect the average farmer in
North Carolina. The AAA program
provides that every farm may harvest
for grain 10 acres of wheat, or 3
acres per family, or the usual acre
age, whichever is larger. E. Y.
Floyd, AAA executive officer of
State College, says it is very import
ant for all producers who have equip
ment for havesting wheat pr other
small grain, or who can arrange for
equipment, to plant these crops this
fall. He does not recommend that
those producers who have not grown
wheat commercially to go into the
commercial production of the crop,
but points out, instead, that wheat
fits in well with crop rotations and it
has always been safe and good farm
inging to produce those crops on the
farm that are needed for food and ,
feed purposes.
Colored Firemen
Hold Annual 3-Day
Meeting In Tarboro
Sherwood Brockwell, State Fire
Marshall, Speaks to Assemb
ly; Several Contest Are Run
Off.
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According to a report from Walter
L. Bullock, captain of Farmvilie
Fire Company, over 350 firemen at
tended the Annual State Convention
of the Colored Volunteer Firemen's
Association held in Tarboro August
20 to 23rd.
Firemen in attendance were from
Farmvilie, Greenville, Wilson, Fay
etteville, Dunn, Tarboro, Enfield,
j Louisburg, East Spencer, Oxford
Warren ton and Salisbury. Farmvilie
was not otnly represented a hundred
per cent, membership, but several
took along their families and friends.
Sherwood Brockwell, State Fire
Marshall, of Raleigh, delivered the
principal address. Speakers from
Farmvilie included R. A. Joyner and
Haywood Smith, chief of the local
fire department.
In the various races held on Wed
nesday the Farmvilie boys entered
only the Hose and Reel race, and
missed second place by less than two
seconds. Prizes in this race went to
East Spencer and Greenville. Prizes
in other races went to Tarboro, East
Spencer, Wilson and Oxford.
The association voted to meet in
Greenville in 1941.
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