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.
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Keynote To National Prosperity
idri.ten Specially for The News by ARTHUR
CAFPER -U. S. Senator, Kaneas <
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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I.
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