POLK COUNTY NEWS C. BUSH, Publisher Phone 99, Published every Thursday at Tryon, North Carolina Entered as second-class matter April 28 1915 at the post office at Tryon, North Carolina under act of March 3, 1879. F"o"V".i \Hv.*ri '? in*; K^presentative I i ir. A!V!Kf< iv'AN ASSOCIATION i SUB5CRIPT2GN $2.00 dER YEAR Keynote To National Prosperity idri.ten Specially for The News by ARTHUR CAFPER -U. S. Senator, Kaneas < ___ ___ \ For many years the United States Government has been content to let agriculture take care of itself. Farmers have gone on producing under many handicaps that might easily have been removed. The re sult has been disaster that in the last two years has over taken the farmers, caused bil lions of dollars in losses by shrinkage in the value of farm products, and has been serious ly detrimental to business throughout the land. The need of a constructive national program looking to the rehabilition of agriculture is re garded by the Farm Bloc as im perative. It is now general ly accepted that prosperity must come first to the farmers | before it can prevail in the city. Farming is the only business left that buys at retail and sells at wholesale; that pays what is asked when it buys and accepts what is offered when it sells. The farmer remains merely a producer of the necessaries of human life. He gets but one-third of ev^ry dollar paid by the con sumer for the products of the farm. Our expensive, anti quated and inefficient market ing system takes the other two thirds. The enactment of con structive, wholesome, progres sive legislation, which will bring about conditions agricul turally is the mission of the Farm Bloc in Congress. As a member of that body, I think I may say with perfect candor that there is nothing dark, sin ister, nor forbidding in its make-up or its purposes. It is not political. It i? for things rather than against them, for the city man as well as the country man. It is working for honest industry, honest fin ance, honest commerce, honest agriculture honest labor, and wishes to cooperate with all of these. Agriculture Basis of All Pros perity The charge has been made by metropolitan newspapers of. the East that the' Farm Bloc seeks class legislation. Thus its aim is to profit agriculture, no matter at what cost to other industry. The men who make that charge lose sight of the fundamental fact that agricul ture is basic, that what con tributes to its prosperity and well being unquestionably ben efits all industry. When agri culture is profitable the nation is prosperous. In legislation the farmer is not entitled to any more con sideration than any other class ; but he is entitled to just as much. The Farm Bloc does not rec ognize the right of any class to have an advantage at the ex pense of another group or of the population as a whole. The Farm Bloc believes that the best way to mend the pre sent situation and provide for the future is to increase the producer's profits by shorten ing the road to market. One way to accomplish this is through cooperative market ing. The recently published re port of the Federal Tr$de Com mission shows that gambling some years to more than twent ty billion bushels, or three times all the grain produced in the world. The public has made up its mind that the Chicago Board of Trade's poker playing, using the country's food supply as the stakes, is the most wanton, most wicket, most destructive ^ game of chance in the world, and it is now proposing to stop it by the Capper-Tincher law, whiche places grain exchanges under federal control.' The Farm Bloc measure which had strongest opposition was the amendment to the Fed eral Reserve Act, providing that agriculture should be re presented on the Ftederal Re serve Board along with other industury, commerce and fin ance. Wall Street bankers op posed it bitterly, claiming that i this is "class legislation/' No one seems to think it "class legislation" for com merce, finance and manufac i turing to be represented on the 1 Federal Reserve Board, and, of course, it is not. Then why should it be considered class legislation for agriculture, which is the largest and most vital industry of all, to be so represented ? For a long while the big five packer combine absolutely con trolled the livestock markets and fixed the prices to suit themselves. As a result of the efforts of the Farm Bloc the packing industry is now under government control, and as -a matter* of fact, the packers and everybody else now con cede that it is a good law. One of the most important measures in the Farm Bloc pro gram was the bill for the revi val of War Finance Corpora tion, making one billion dollars available for loans to farmers and stockmen. This legisla tion saved thousands of pro ducers from bankruptcy. Practical Financing is Pressing Problem The Farm Bloc still has many important things to ac complish. One of them is a credit plan which will be of speedy and immense value to farming industry. The Bloc is endeavoring to have enacted into law a system of one, two and three-year credit for far mers, based on farm products as collateral. We cannot have any differ ent system of orderly market ing until we have a different system of financing. We can not build up a system of sane marketing until we have a sys-, tem of credits peculiarly ad apted to the needs of agricul ture. Agriculture is at the mercy of those who control credit, and many who exert that control r.re not particularly in sympa thy with agriculture. Thous ands of farmers and stockmen have been ruined in the past two or three years by this lack of credit. The agricultural credit plan before this Congress, based on warehouse receipts as collateral security, will make more mon ey, at lower interest rates, available for financing the slow turnover of the farms, which will give the farmer another opportunity to go ahead with his work with a fair chance to make good. If that is accom plished it will mean cheaper food, more work, reopened fac tories and mills and a return of good times. Lower Freight Rates Vital To All Classes. The Farm Bloc believes rail way freight rates are too high and must come down. It is us ing all the influence it can com mand to bring this about. The city is just as vitally interest ed in lessening cost of canning food supplies. One of the measures endors ed by the Bloc would restore to state railway commissions much of the power taken from them by what I believe is an unwarranted interpretation of the Transportation Act by the Inter State Commerce Commis sion. The Farm Bloc Is giving its support to the Truth-in-Fab rics bill to compel all makers of clothing to brand their goods so the buyer will know the amount of pure wool and the amount of shoddy in each* garment. This is of more importance to the man in the city than to the man who sells the wool. The Farm Bloc believes that a foreign market for our sur plus farm products is vital to the farmer's prosperity, and we are doing our best to secure legislation that will aid in find ing buyers for our surplus foodstuffs in Europe. Some thing must be done to make a market for American products. Ffteen per cent of our farm/ output must find a market out side of the United States if we are to save our farm industry and maintain our own food sup ply. o For Sale: ? or exchange thirty acre. Mountain home, in sight -of Avery County Court house. 1-2 mile R. R. schools and churches. Modern 8 room house, garage and 100 bearing apples trees, good grazing land. This place is 3900 feet up. Ideal summer home. What have you to offer. Addrehs .f1* Care of The News. ' ,AJ. . .I !".1* There will be a Special Meet ing of the Stockholders of the Polk County Farmers Federa tion at Columbus, on Friday March 9, at 1 P. M. to consider an important amendment to the By-Laws. All Stockholders shold make an effort to be present. This is on the same day as the County Biscuit Con test. Two communicating rooms private bath ? House heated. Good table ? Rates upon Ap plication. Crystal Springs Inn; Saluda, N. C. o CERTIFCATE OF DISSOLUTION State of North Carolina, Department of State. To all to whom these presents may come: ? Greeting: Whereas, it appears to my satisfaction, by duly authenti cated record of proceedings for the voluntary dissolution there of by the unanimous consent of all the stockholders, deposited in my office that the Tryon Filling Station, Incorporated, a corporation of this state, whose principal office is situated in the Town of Tryon, County of Polk, State of North Carolina, has complied with the require ments of Chapter 22, Consoli dated Statutes, entitled "Cor porations," preliminary to the issuing of this Certificate of \i Dissolution : Now, therefore, I, W. N.# Everett, Secretary of State of the State of North Carolina, do hereby certify that the said corporation did, on the 16th day of February, 1923, file In my office a duly executed and attested consent in writing to the dissolution of said corpora tion, executed by all the stock holders thereof, which said con sent and the record of pro ceedings aforesaid are now or file in my said office as provid ed by law. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official seal at Ra leigh, this 16th day of Febru ary, A. D. 1923. ? Secretary of State W. N. EVERETT o NOTICE Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in that certain Mortage Deed by date of September 10th, 1921, ex ecuted by W. L. Henderson and wife, C. M. Henderson to 0. C. Harrison for $138.00; said mortgage is recorded in book No. 17 at page 270 for the records of Polk county; default having been made in the pay ment of said principal and in terest, I will at the court house door in Columbus on the 10th day of March, at 12 o'clock M. offer for sale to the highest bidder for cash the following described land, to- wit: Lying and being in Coopers Gap township, Polk county and adjoining the lands of Eliza Jackson and others, bounded as follows: Beginning at a chestnut oak on Ivey bluff, N. 40 W. 37 poles to a R. O. on the creek bank on edge of road in the Eliza Jackson tract, and runs with line N. 52 1-2 E. 62 poles to a spruce pine stump corner of same oh creek bank, thence the line of said tracts N. 60 E. 74 poles to a W. O., corner of said tract in the Pat ten line, thence with the Pat ten line S. 25 E. 358 to a chest nut oak on top of ridge, thence to the beginning, containing 41 acres, more or less. This the8th day of Feb. 1923. O. C. HARRISON, Mortgagee. o , FOR SALE ? Wilcox Dairy Farm, two good cottages and barn, 20 acres, some good bot tom land. This place will be sold at a very reasonable price and on terms to suit purchaser. JAMES LEONARD. > THE UNIVERSAL CAR Four Reasons Why You Should Buy Your Ford Car This Month I. The unprecedented demand for Ford Cars throughout the winter months has taken the entire output of the Ford plants working at capacity, indicating that the demand this Spring will be far in excess of the number ? of Ford Cars that can possibly be built. II. January was the tenth consecutive month in which re tail deliveries exceeded 100,000 Ford Cars and Trucks. Requirements for February, the month when prepara tions are already under way for Spring business, called for 148,407 Cars and Trucks? more than 24,000 in ex cess of the number we can possibly produce. III. Ford dealers in many parts of the country are akeady ? ? r ? * * * - x , finding it necessary to specify future delivery dates on Ford Products because there are no reserve stocks to draw from. IV. Your order placed now will protect you against delay or dissapointmint later on ? Is is the only way you can be assured of reasonably prompt delivery. We consider it important to give you these ?acts, so that if you are planning to purchase a Ford Car, Truck or Fordson Tractor for use this Spring or Summer you can list your order at once and take advantage of our dealer's first opportun ity to make delivery. f Font Motor Company Detroit, Michigan BaHenger-Morris Motor Co. 1 * ? 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