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County ? Fir: jt an J ;l' Soo the kH [f gk,a^ Polk County An Independent Weekly Published in an inde dendent part of these United States. 26 PAGE? POLK COUNTY? The Gateway of Western North Carolina Five Cents Per Copy xxx Tryon, N. C? May 14, 1925 $1.50 a Year Tel The Truth About Agriculture" Lowden Mum, NOW mm mooes bomb in mm IF mm iND SUBSIDISED PRESS a- ? 01 Kim Met in Sifcji. Ha.v Metropolitan ?,!? !ler mm tare S^sed Prosperity Storie film h Cotton and Cwjl_ There's T/eSy X nl> as AKD >>?? i . ? w ... - i .l.i . ry, ihf alli.f i:r tif . > the ti; ? ?..[>? turo h? W> ? ..lie t>Ut ?.-< ill At MgU ;:i: - r ? pif ct'Il r it" -? >a id ? : .i.- -a more A ci dFcL . A-.riduture V ? . Ma'.Ued it i! Ik* laid hand." r .-.i.'i that m \ 111? cv . ? i i> t r n >,enirnts the ? i The new -aid. Old 1. >U St'S gOlUg ^.:.t ar- t0 be a:. : yet ile L ...ri- gathered tht-re has ?>r <I;nng all -tr?t5 t0 mini, f ::i?- agricul T finau ntie go ? i.ar;.eter_ : *u as a a.-:>mi.sh ::.i- lime, .i >"HOUS Mi-.mcing truub_ -id future '3 s? ra;*N ? city city news :? to the ? tie .av.x v.n. Krcii- 'ik V'"' ' Wa VJ. to. duT'.tit-' "ij SO V'V* 1 <jl North (?r cation ^r'' ttem-.avfes ?ton is ib y ? k Iir.'ibV.' mitt *0U'\'T' Htnl 18 lint th 4pjuibx -fei'-i'i'l #ac* ot i\i? v ?fct, to: r T^l *->'li -v "^TAU-v^r in; in \\iv ?Nwi twin 1 ? ibai i\i" * f*Wt It ?U\ ?? ^ the L^crfc, Sr* time tj , . ^er ' .. iHtUi *kh lls tin . a ((!? ?t, *** to th " ? fth ,itte"flaa. ?: tj- >r farm :???:;<. goes ' ? ? last on i the boll ? ? xpluined ?? has been 'i ? :iodern ? '.i> to show ' 'ht* farmer ! 'his despite very time ? the two ? ^ and Texas '?f the south ? '!? sperate a raced.'' i'ivtrnor Low ? ? ven so the friend Wficom. drop. Index ? ? totally i t0 agricul. the popu he said, ists Kener_ -ituation Is ' '?'?uty years r> ? l?etween y for what ? ' for what ? ouaclously 1 tS??n, At the 11 us, there li j istment of ? 'avor of the and unwhole ' ' ;t of living "?irig classes, -a^nirj, !i" ?ected the %k ' h'- city folk# from th/ J r!K farm lr "tunoniic stand 1' vi a "wiuai eniLry ago, he ot ? 1 1(1 cla8sical ec_ ex Tells Farm Truth* * Former Gov. Frank 0. Lowden of 111. bearded capital and big city publishers in their den to lell them the truth about the deplorable con dition* in arricultgre today. "Co operative Marketing Lb th? paly tolutioo", he say*. plained. ? and our political economy today is based largely on the teach, ings ? the competitive principle is ?>h* all powerful and controlling fao business Tii&y deducted from this the "iron law of wanes" under which wages never rould rise above the point of bare subsistance. Under the law labor was doomed forever to a life little THE CURE Hero is Governor Lowden's cure for the existing ills of agriculture: "Farmers co.operative market ing associations ? there is no other way 0011L I can forsee the day, I think, when every thing produced upon the farm will be marketed by the farmers themselves through an organL zation of their own creation. I like to think of the time when the representatives of all these great farmers' organizations shall meet in a congress once a year and shall there work out a program for the future, just as other industries now meet annually for the purpose of forming an intelligent and co operative program for the year. At such a meeting if it shall appear that one branch of agriculture i.s expanding more rapidly than conditions warrant steps will be taken to restore the balance as between that and the other activities of^the farm In tii is way we shall achieve a bilanced agriculture. Even more desirable, however, we shall restore the proper balance between agriculture ? the great est of all industries ? and other business activities in this or_ ganized world in which we finf ourselves. There can be no en during prosperity unless all the principal industries which go to make up the industrial world^ keeping step with one another shall march abreast." above that of the beasts of the field. "They now see that the "iron law of wages" has gone into the dis card," said Gov. Lowden. "Former President Hadley of Yale? one of the foremost economists of his time, says: "Those of us who were brought up on the old fashioned text books of political economy can hard, ly conceive how small a part of the prices or wages or rents of the ^vorld have actually been determined by competition!" We are coming to learn that unrestricted competition is not clothed with all the virtues it was once thought to possess. Un restricted competition is a form of warfare. Whether among the na tions of the world for larger arma ments, or among the producers of useful commodities, it has been found to entail losses to society far |?THE DARKEST DAY IN HISTORY TWE T\ME YOU TOOK MEET To A VANCE ? And vbu raw ,ouT7>f gas ? AND IT WAS RAlNlNG ? AMD SHE MA*A~NCW f*?TY DRESS ON ? ANb.lF SHE WENT WITH YOU TO SCOUT FOft GAS , SHE WOULD G?T SOPPlNfr WET ? AND YOU SIMPLY CDUtPMT LErfWE HER ALOME WHILE MDU WE MT AFTOft IT o? imk,-buck, Black ink !! ? MASK weUTHkS TVATE ON THE fW?? OF GLOOM; By A. B. CHAPIN# ? ; beyond the benefits It has confer ; red." High Prices, No Crops. Mllusmuing his point Gov# Lowden called attention to the recent state, ment issued by the Dept. of AgricuL ture on the estimated value of farm crops for last year which was her j aided in the cities as another proof ' that the farmer had come into his own, for it was found that the total value of farm crops for the year was three quarters of a billion doL lars in excess of the value of the crops the year before Welcome news ? but the corn crop was twenty per cent smaller than the crop of the preceding year by two_hundred milli. on dollars. The quality of the crop was far below that of the preceding year # ) "And yet under a marketing sys_ ? tern^ which it is claimed is one of the ! most noteworthy achievements of A this commercial age, the smaller , crop of inferior corn was worth more j in the market than the large and su_ ?. perior crop of the year before." , Then Gov. Lowden proceeded to show how the farmer is caught on the horns of his marketing dilemma. "The cause of this lesser and ferior crop was a cold, wet summer" he said. "It was a summer disas. terous for corn, but very favorable for the growth of grasses. There was therefore an increase in the production of milk with the result that something like a hundred mil lion pounds more of butter was pro duced in 1924 than in the year be_ fore. This was only five per cont of the total annual production of butter but it created a surplus of two and a half per cent, and this resulted in a decrease in the price of butter from twenty t0 twenty.five per cent. And the price of butter let it be remem bered largely controls the price of all dairy products. Same Juggling in Cotton "Last summer the cotton crop, ' particularly in the southwest, was suffering severely for lack of rain. And one day the heavens opened .and the rain descended. As a result the government which before had es_ timated the crop at twelve million four hundred thousand bales in f k'Teased the estimate to thirteen million bales. This was an Increase of less than five per cent in the yield. And yet, because of this esti mated increase, the price declined in ! the market twenty per cent. This I meant that the total crop of the larger [estimate was worth less in the market | by three hundred million dollars than I the crop by the lesser estimate. "Now there is no music efweeter to ; my ears than the patter of rain drops 1 upon the roof breaking a drought in the i summer time, and yet, to save my life, I cannot teil whether the rain is a sweet and fragrant bearer of a benefitl ! ?or bankruptcy. When the hot sum- 1 mer winds scortch the fields I do not know whether to pray for rain or to thank the Almighty for the unbroken drought. ' 'Something is wrong with our method of marketing when the aggregate money value of a larger crop of prime I necessity is smaller than the value of a! smaller crop. " Lake Lanier Construction Swings Along Lake Lanier, Tryon's late3t and greatest real estate [development is swinging along at an un precedented rate with construction crews working day and night to hurry through the erection of the big dam which .will impound many millions of gallons of chrystal clear water from the sparkling mountain streams leading into Vaughn's Creek Valley. The executive and sales force of the Tryon Development Company will move into their new of- ! fice on the grounds within a few days and visitors will be made welcome at all times. Visitors from many parts of the country have expressed their admiration for the scenic back-! ground which makes the property so desirable, and purchasers from half a dozen states show that it is not merely a matter of Tar Heel pride that compels them tato invest. ' . hm ir ^ t : POLK COUNTY LOSES FIGHT FOR RE-LOCATION OF SCENIC ROUTE TO INCLUDE COLUMBUS AND TRYON Alternative Route From Boone to Isheiille, thence to Spartaoiburg, via Hendersonville, Saluda and Tryon to Be Shown on Official Maps * Praying to Play ? Babe Ruth, as he is today in * New York hospital ? still too sick to play with the Yanks, tosses and frets because he cannot help Us toara break its losing streak. TRYON PHARMACY STARTED WITH $500.00 STOCK THIRTY YEARS AGO Thirty years ago Tryon was a straggling mountain town with no immediate hope for any extensive growth and development, and then E. E. Missildine, strong in his belief in the future of the Thermal Belt, entered the drug business here, and this week the concern which he owns and manages will celebrate its birth day with an aniversary sale which will demonstrate the changed condi tions existing in the Carolinas today. E. E. Missildine, Proprietor of Missildine's Pharmacy, became a res_ ident of Tryon in June 1894, coming from Winter Park, Florida, having just received his A. B. degree from Roliins College. The first winter in Tryon he tu tored several young people in Latin and taught the public school, being the only teacher, with an enrollment of sixty-five students of all grades. The school being held in what was then known as the "New School Building" a frame biilding located on the hill near the present residence of Miss Mary Beach. jVIay 15 1895 Mr. Missildine embark ed in the drug business, under the firm name of Missildine & Grady, purchasing the interest of one Joe Cox of the firm of Cox & Grady. January 1st, 1900 E. E. Missildino purchased Dr. Grady's interest in the business and has continued sole owner since that time. The original store as owned by Cox & Grady, while meeting the needs of the community at that time was a very small affair; inventory of entire stock and fixtures being ap proximately five hundred dollars. New lines have been added from time to time and today MISSIL DINE'S PHARMACY is known throughout the country as one of the best equipped and most complete drug stores. E. E. Missildine was registered as a licensed pharmacist in 1900 and in in accordance with the State laws has either been in the store^or had a licensed man, in constant touch with the prescription department, since its organization. Mr. Missildine has received the highest honors that ca:- he conferred on a Pharmacist, by the State, in that he was elected and served as President of the Pharmaceutical As sociation in 1921. A number of arti cles and papers on pharmacy and its allied interests have appeared in various leading drug journals from time to time written by him. Basing his business on a uniform policy of prompt service, efficiency, and carefulness in every detail, Mr. Missildine has watched Tryon grow with the ever increasing development of the Pride of the Thermal Belt. Some two hundred representatives from half a dozen suites met at the Franklin Hotel in Spartanburg on Monday and Tuesday to plan a defi inte route from Quebec to Key West via the Shenandoah Valley and the Blue Ridge. Hugh McRae, financier of Wilming ton, N*. C. presided during the bual_ session.;, while Miss Beatrice Cohl) editor of the News_Herald of 9 Morganton acted as secretary. I)r. Wm. Ball, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Spartanburg, rendered the invocation and was followed by H. B. Carlisle, Sr, who delivered an address of welcome. Addresses by representatives from the different cities^ together with a | talk on advertising the proposed i route by Ernest N. Smith, General Manager of the American Automobile j Association followed. j An official photograph of the dele j gates, luncheon at the Franklin and ; a motor trip through Spartanburg and j its envirions featured the afternoon program. The Polk County contingent com i posed of B. L. Ballenger, M. G. Blake | Carter P Brown, C. M. Howes W. S. ? ' y j Green, Charles J. Lynch, K. C. Rem | ick, Eugene Brownlee G. H. Holmes, I H. A. Shannon of Tryon, FVed W. Blanton, and E. \V. S. Cobb of Co_ I lumbus, and H. P. Corwith of Saluda I started an agitation t0 have ^Tryon counted in on tM main -^"Outej which, as originally mapped continued through from Rutherfordton via Chesnee to Spartanburg instead of coming over Route 19 and thence to Spartanburg. Charles J. Lynch was finally appointed on the committee to decide the definite routing and made a determined fight to keep Columbus and Tryon on the route. The route, when completed will be one of the finest arteries of travel from the north to the south and will traverse one of the most beautiful and historic sections in all of Amer. ica. and the getting of Tryon on the route would have meant a world of publicity which could not be obtain, ed in any other way. Incidently Iioscoe Marvel of the Kenilworth Inn, Asheville, and his brother Jas. H. Marvel of Lake Geor ge, N. Y. who were present to repre sent Asheville's interest, together with Noah Hollowell, J. T. Fain, F. S. Wetmur, Jno. T. Wilkins and P. L. Wright who represented Hender_ sonville did all within their power to divert the main line via Tryon and Polk County owes them something for their commendable qooperation in the effort to divert the route via Columbus and Tryon. Hon. T G. McLeod Governor of ? t South Carolina was to have been the rhief speaker at the evening session but was unable to attend. S^artanbrrg was made the central office <?! the association at the Tues day s.'ssion and the committee in charge < r (he location of the route refused to divert the highway through Columbus and Tryon but as a substitute provided an alternative loop from Boone to Asheville, Hen. dersonville, Saluda and Tryon to Spartanburg, and will include that loop as well as the Rutherfordton Tryon cut.off in its maps and fuides Although considerable disappoint ment at the inability of Polk County representatives to have Columbus and Tryon included on the main route was displayed, residents of those towns and Mill Spring a$ well may congratulate Messrs Ballenger jtnd Lynch on the valiant fight they made for recognition, aided and abet ted by other representatives. The o^> ?"? of the organization for the comi::. ; jar are: Hugh Mciiae of Wilmington^ presi dent; Miss Beatrice Cobb of Morgan ton, secretary; and A. . Kistler of Morganton treasurer. Vice-presi dents the organization were elect, ed as follows: Earl W, Brown, De Land, Fla. Mark W. Lance, Avon 9 Park, Fla.; V. E. Cornett, Indop? n dence^ Va.; Charles P. Waugh, Ga lax, Va#; J. Q. Girkey Marion N. C, Hugh Chatham, Elkin^ N. C. j Harry D# Reid, Waycross, Ga.; George L. Williams^ Metta, Ga.; and A. E. Pad gett, Edgefield.
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