I The Polk County News i pusli5 .0 "eekly by the news publishing company ' I LOUIS LEHMAN, Editor I.Hrtd ? " iV9t0ff'Ce at Try0n' N" C- as Second-Class Mail isI i'1 Under Act of Congress. 7^ Waiter I" TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION " I*" 2-?? gts ? 25 |S? - ? - | ?I?PLAY ADVERTISING RATE " I f?rt) Cents Per Column Inch, Flat ?nt Per Word, Coeh In Advene. ^ in HALLOWE'EN ^ e moit ::e ghosts an(* gobKns stalk about us. For Hal. 4ppn.?i:.i-s. There are holidays and holidays, but none t 90 -w.-.tnously joyful as the night of pumpkin faces, cats *1 witches. And there's something about HaleD thai ?,ls under the skin of the old folks, too: some[injtha: catties them away and out of themselves. And therelies the nv-Mery masks and fairies and goblins. They Te as 1 glimpse into the world of make-believe. gu* let s n.-K.e this a safe and sane Hallowe'en. There'e enh fun to oo had without -destroying property. For to be trubappy 11 iu>lp keep others from being sad or at a loss. % A MAN IS AS OLD AS HIS OATS ARE WILD Medical science is now giving attention to the prolongation 11, (o liter the age of fifty, and particularly afer seventy; iuv ? ? Himwtf that too little attention has been paid to what the Minun philosopher, Seneca, called ^ disease itself?old age. The best remedy, however, is proper care of the body before ..inmp the proverbial three-score and ten.,. If the baby the Hid, the young man and young woman and the middle-aged H looked after as Nature intends, the situation relative to H"old man," and the "old woman," will largely take care of Wc recall that it was the late Luther Burbank who, in speakH of Theodore Roosevelt's strenuous life, said in effect that treat strain or crisis comes to every person at some time in E If by right thinking and proper livi"g> sufficient energy Bd reserve power have been stored up in the body, the crisis H to withstood. Roosevelt withstood the crisis of fever while Hth? tropics. Bid age is a kind of crisis which, when taken calmly, resoBey and philosophically will admit of much happiness and B*. provided human resources have not been dissipated in Bier years. Hi the south they call them planters; in the west they call H ranchers; in the middle states they're just plain farmers; Bin the east they're country gentlemen. The problem of I Administration is to make "farm relief" cover all. Can it done. THEY CARRY ON en? live the boys of the American Legion! A splendid arof American manhood opens in Philadelphia the eighth an1 convention of that militant but peace-loving order. A POPULAR SPORT ^eball is still the great national game, especially if we are odge by gat0 receipts. The world series was all that could ^Pected. It was good baseball. The St. Louis Cardinals and Kew York Yankees upheld in fine style the traditions of *0rld nf snnrt / A WORTHY CANDIDATE *oter6 of this section will do a great deed in sending W. to Raleigh, as a member of the House of RepresentatnK Little is well qualified for this position, a man of brotd business experience, and a man that can be ex^ 7 t0 accorr?l,l?sh great things for his state and county. sit up and take real notice when he once has the ^ 7 10 demonstrate his ability as a speaker. He is a man blesspd with a great personality, his advice has ^J>?ught by numbers of people in this county, and he has J8 il R 'th a smile and pleasure. VV ^ County News has no axe to grind in futhering his it has taken an impartial stand in the coming elec*Ul the heritage of small weeklies staying out of H, ^ut n unusual man has offered his services to his J V 10 community and the Polk County News feels that man 4" crank Little should have an expression from the in 'he county. Send him to Raleigh and you will have! there that will be a credit to the County of r Wd the otate of North Carolina. I WHAT IS REAL PROSPER^^ from ft'Verity is a queer term. Sotne ?ie^ based upon the horiVMas lorsts. But real prospen y human re^? ? ftwd successful exploration of na u ^ the soil* ^ . Ebng that deirved from the p*? TEST RESISTANCE C The bureau of standards of the D deliberately Bbrned two automobiles the Illustration. The Are, which reg] helt, was designed to test ttye resist garage remained Intact and' apparel lng fire. A BANKER SXYS WE DO NOT NEE FEWER BUT MORE AUTOS, GOOD HOMES ETC. (From Manufacturers Record) In their Economic Review for October, Cal<|well & Co., bankers, Nashville, Tenn., says: "It has recently been estimated that the present annual cost of automobile and the allied industries? oil, garages, road building, etc.?Is about $15,000,000,000. That Us a a stupendous sum. It alarms the timid. But it simply represents so much labor. If this labor were not employed in building automobiles, roads, etc., It simply would not be employed at all, so we should have in effect $15,000,000,000,000 of Idle labor. Largely because automobile poduction is absorbing surplus labor on a scale never before known, we have had the langest period of substained prosperity in the history of the ocuntry. Never before has It been possible to operate our factories at present speed without glutting the makets with all sorts of goods, forcing prices down drastically and in the end bringing about to a prolonged business depression, which was all too frequently preceded hy a financial panic. "We do not need fewer atomobiles, few radios, fewer good homes. We need more. A1 lof these things are tre product of labor. It We refrain from using the poduct of labor, thee must be less production, which, of course, means dull business. If we are to have big production, we must have big consumption. There is nothing alarming about the automobile situation, and will not be i* -AWA nrfiBATlt Tllim? 11 we 1 a?c uuuuic v4<0 ^ ? ber of machines. We are a rich country. We have efficient labor and great mechanical production. Such a combination will make any country rich." WHAT THE RAILROADS ARE EARNING?SOUTH LEADS ANNUAL RATE OF RETURN (From Manufacturers Record) Claps 1 railroad for the first eight months in 1926 had a net railway operating income amounting to $744,944,169, which was at the annual rate of return of 5.13 per cent on their property in vestment according to reports filed by the *" Doll, railroads witn tne joureau U1 ivati way Economics. During the corresponding period last year their net railway operating income amounted to 1664,127,558, or 4.68 per cent on their property investment. Gross operating revenues for the first eight months this year amounted to $4,163,562,608, which compares with $3,1974,000,198 during tke corresponding period last year, or an increase of 4.8 per cent. Operating expenses for the first eight-month period this year totaled 83,094,130,636, compared with $3,011,195,508 during the correponding period last year, or an increase of 2.8 per cent. These railroads in August, the last month of the period considered, had a net railway operating income of $133,0008,268, which was at the annual rate of return of 6.51 per cent their property Investment. In Au gust last year their net railway operating Income was 1124,943,508, or 5.29 pere cent on their property Investment. This compilation as to earnings in August is based on reports from 184 Class 1 railroads, representing a total mileage of 236,906 miles. Gross operatin revenues for the month amopunted to $578,822,690, compared with $5^5,498,701 in August last year, or an increase of 4.2 percent. Operating expenses in August this yehr totaled $399, 329,821, compared with $888,898,354 in the same month last year, or an increase of 3.7 percent. Class 1 railroads in August paid $36,373,380 in taxes, an Increase oi $3,708,082, or 11.4 percent over the some month in 1925. This brought the total tax bill of the Clou ] ;.y - _ - ; - " ' ' i'J-.POLK COUNTY NEW8 I M >F A STEEL GARAGE epartment of Agriculture at Washington to a mass of wreckage, as shown In later ed a temperature of 1,850 Fahrenance of a steel garage to flames. The ntly was not affected by the consomrailroads for the first eight months this year to $253,420,511, an increase of $21,097,107, or 9.1 percent above the corresponding period last year. During the ifrst eight months this year the Class 1 railroads In the Southern district had net railway operating Income at the annual rate of return of 5.77 percent on their property Investment. In the Eastern district this was at the rate of 5.69 i J J_ ii iir i J : ? * _i ,.f perceiu ami m lue trtjuiBru uismci. 4.28 percent. AMERICAN LEGION OF BALTIMORE FOR CANCELLATION OF ALLIES' DEBTS (From Manufacturers Record) No more important feature was scheduled on the urogram of American Legion for its convention in Philadelphia than consideration of, and action on, resolutions from German H. H. Emory Post of Baltimore "that all debts owing form nations. formerly our Allies in the Great War should be annulled and cancelled." Even the presentation of such a resolution to such a convention by sucr a body of men Is of prodigious significance. Here are found meh who actually fought in the trenches, who suffered woulds anj discomfort and hardship of every kind, who bore the brunt of the war, the burden and heat of the day, urgently advocating the cancellation of the Allies "debts." No one should have a more potent and influential voice on this subpect than these actual soldiers? men who saw conditions, men who suffered, men who know men who saw conditions, men who suffered, men who know. Let these soldiers speak for themselves, through the resolution. "Whereas, during the late war the United States was engaged in a common cause with its Allies; and, "Whereas, by reasons of the unpreparedness of the United States to engage in active military operations it was necessary for many months for the nations allied with us to spend their blood and live sand money in battle for tre protection and the assistance of the United States until the military forces of the United States could be made ready to take their part in military operas tions; and, "Whereas, the Government of the United States lent to the Governments of the Allied nations large sums of money to aid them in the prosecution of the war during the period of or preparations and in the years immediately following the war; and, "Whereas a large portion of the money lent was spnet in the United States and a profit has been made by the citibens of the United States * am/1 upon its expeiiunui c, nuu, "Whereas, in the resoltions authorizing tre making of these loans it was expressly stated by the Congress of the United States that they were our contributions to the common cause; and, "Wheras, it is impossible, impractical anj Inadvisable or the United States to insist upon the collection of trese debts from our former brothers in arms; now, therefore, be It "Resolved, That it is the sense of the German H. H. Emory Post of the American Legion that all debts owing from nations formerly our Allies in the Great War should be annulled and cancelled; and be it i further "Resolved, Trat the officers ol this post are hereby directed to take i such action as may be appropriate i to bring this resolution to the atten tion of the state and national au\ thorities of the American Legion." i Another sweet potato storage I house has been built in Halifaj ! County. This one wil lhold 1.000C i bushels. t L Read Polk County Nowa -v. ???? ?? WILL PRE8IDENT COOLIDQE AND SECRETARY HOOVER MEET THE COTTON EMERGENCY??NOT A SOUTHERN MAN ON THE PRESIDENT'8 COMMISSION. (From Manufacturers Record) Our special dispatch from Washington, printed elsewhere in this Is-, sue, shaws unerquiocally that the financial agencies already established by the Government can furnish almost unlimited funds for financing a great cotton-holding movement When we denounced the McNaryHaugen bill last spring, we did so, among otrer reasons, because the Administration, through Its endorsement of the Fess-Tincher bill, was putting itself irrevocably on record in favor of two propositions: (1) That the Government financial agencies should provide funds to hold and warehouse surplus basic; (2JT* * U ? * ~1 1J L _ 1 1 J Luai OUCIl BUI piUHCB BUUU1U U? ilclU over from one year to another. That is a principle which Secretary Jardine within the last week has reiterated. We thought then that a huge cotton crop would soon give the Adminstration an opportunity to make good on its promises. We thought that a magnificient chance would coon present itself for a great experiment to prove Or disprove the efefctiveness of the Administration plan. The time has come. It has come even more dramatically than we had anticipated. Every card is in the Administration's hands. There is the great, non-perishable crop of cotton. There are the vast sums available through the intermediate credit banks and other financial agencies. There are the warehouses where the excess product can be stored. There is a farm community admittedly selling below cost of production. The problem has in it every factor ,the Administration's program contemplated. The Administration program contemplated. The Administration has had tossed into its lap the chance to prove indubitable the economic soundness of its plans. It has the chance to prove V?of If la In f not fnvnrflhlo tn ocrtH " "> " ?v-l ?- ? ? ?' -O. culture. Mr. Coolldge has appointed a special board to co-ordinate measure for cotton relief. It cosists of Eugene Meyer, Jr., as chairman, and of Secretaries, Jardine, Mellon and Hooyer. Mr. Meyer several years ago ws selected to revive the activities of the War Finance Coporation when Congress specifically ordeed it to resume operations after it had been made dormant by the 1 then Secretary of the Treasury. Mr. Hoover is the outstanding proponent of the 'dea that the British in devising a national policy that maintains the price of rubber above 40cents the pound and has lifted the rubber plantations out of the mires of insolvency. Mr. Hoover, unfortunately, seems to be Indubitably committed to an economic phlosophy that is utterly antagonistic to the whole purpose of warehousing cotton and ersricting supply. It is remarkable, in the circumstances, that he should think it ethical to accept membership on the board. His pub| lie utterances long ago disqualified ihim from serving. We do not under estimate his services to the world and to .this nation. But on this cotton board he is simply out of place. There is another reason why Mr. Hoover should retire from the situation; he should give the President the opportunity at once to repair a grievous error of judgement. There is not a man from the South on the board. There is not on it a man who knows cotton intimately, or the vital interests of whOBe people are involved in the fortunes of the commodity. / This cotton crisis can he made the foundation of a national agricultural marketing poljcy that would be epocal in its benefits. Brazil saved its conee planters, mngiaiiu saved its rubber producers. Will the Administration, with full power in its hands, save the cotton situation, realibing that cotton is the nation's most Important crop In maintaining our balance of trade? What will President Coolidge and Secretary Hoover fight for a living price for cotton an,j restrictions of acreage after his bitter fight against England's reubber control? If not, where will he stand in this eniergency? MAYOR OF MIAMI Billy m *&? j. h vr^raaHEGk nr i/ l Mayor E. C. itomfli of Miami was la New York when the hurricane hit Florida, and started at once for his stricken city. f- . s i 1 . " " " 1 - 1 r* *> * mi i Saddest news ot last summer was from De Kalb, Illinois. Three college boys of the Northern Illinois Teachbrs' College were sentenced to thirteen years in the penitentary. The three boys plead guilty to a joint criminal attack upon Dorothy Westervelt, a fellow student The boys claimed the girl did not resist them. She says 8he did. The jury believed the girl. In the tragic phrase ol Genevieve Forbes Herrick, reporter for the Chicago Tribune, these twenty-yearold boys "must pay thirteen years of liberty for their two hours of freedom." There has been in recent years no more heart-gripping illustration of the terible penalty that is so often paid for "the sin ye do by two and two and pay for one by one." Many of the papers that carried the above item showed also the Picture of the three de Autremont brothers from Eugene, Oregon, now fugitives from justice, who held up a train in the wild passes of the beautiful Siskiyou Mountains in Oregon, murdering three men, the fireman, the engineer and the mail clerk. ?r" Three fires in six months were started by a twenty-five-year-old fire-bug of De Kalb, Illinois. He was a student of a correspondece course in detective work. He probably wanted to se if he could fool the police. That in my judgement, was the chief one of the many men-j tal kinks in the brains of Iieob and HOLD TIGHT TO YOUR COTTON (From Manufacturers Record) To every cotton grower in the South should be sent the message,! "Hold tigh to your cotton and then hold still tighter, and keep on holding tight to it so long as present low prices prevail." The farmers have it in their power to stem this downward movement Df cotton by holding their cotton off the market and absolutely refusing to sell it at present prices. Cotton is selling below the actual cost of production. Unlike wheat or other products of the farm, which are ruined, by long standinjg, coltton can stand for 50 years if well protected from the weather and still be good, and substantial cotton. At present farmers are acting like men in 4 crowded house when somebody jcries "Fire," even where there is no fire, and then they all rush pell-mell , trampling each other to death in getting out when an orderly movement from the building would have been infinitely better. As though they were actually afraid that to hold a bale of cotton would burn their, fillers, farmers are ruslhing ttf get rid of their staple, dumping I it on a declining marKet, eacn rarmer apparently trying to outdo the other in the speed with which he gets his cotton sold. It is no wonder that cotton declines under such circumstances. Every newspaper and every business man in the country ought to do all in his power to stem this panicky condition of cotton growers and persuade them to hold their cetton, and hold it tight, until prices react. Harvie Jordan, a cotton grower of many years' standing and the managing director of the American Cotton Association, has issued an appeal to the farmers of the South in which some striking statements are made as to the extent which the cotton mills of the world are buying cotton at present prices. The mills know that cotton is below the cost of production and, therefore, they know they are buying an absolute certainty in stocking up at low prices. In his statement Mr. Jordan says: "It is reported in reliable press dispatches that foreign and domestic sDinners are taking advantage of present low prices for octton to se cure supplies for several years' consumption. This action is based upod the well-established trade rule to 'Buy any staple commodity when it is below the actual cost of produc tion." "Spot cotton occupies that posi tion in the daily channels of. domes tic and international commerce. The into sight movement and sale of! spot cotton this season has been un precendented and exceeded th( heavy movement to date of one year ago. The gowers appear to be panic stricken in the face of rapidly fall ing prices and are rushing the staple to market in unheard-of- quantity. "The present estimates of a large crop, unprecednted sales and const quent heavy hedging of purchaser by buyers on the cotton exchanger is paralyzing the market. Until these heavy sales by the growers arc cheeked thee can be no stability of t?e market or check to depressing prices. Every daily and weekly pa per in the South should hammer . . ....... 1 "c'C' '"3PWSJSRSK "> IK ^ r " * ' >r' <= * ; HURSDAY OCTOBER 38, 1031 . i r q ? IT rlan Eugene Re HE NUMBER THREE Lepold, youthful wanton meurderers of a boy against who they had no ill-feeling. They wanted to prove that they were master minds. Three youths were held by the police of Johnstown, Pa., in connection with the death of Mary Elisabeth Bogan, a sixteen-year-old girl whose neck was broken, according to the police, in a struggle that took place on a joy-ride. The number three is frequent in the bad news of this summer. That is the number of the candidates for senator in Pennsylvania, whose expenditures were investigated, biggest political scandal in recent i ?T'"* honntlu thn nnmhor | v t'dl O. XJ U L uapj/nj kuv. three occurs In a more favorable light in connection with events that ccoupy less space in the news. Dr. H. S. Smith of East St. Louis, 111., has cause to look upon the figure three with gratitude. He has three sons, each of whom has won a scholarship in Washington University. There's nothing in figures, three, seven, o thirteen. But the figure ten, on which the metric system is based, has useful properties. Its use in calculating money measurements and weights has saved the world millions of dollars and millions of hours. The British do not use it much. We use it in measuring money only. Most of the important European nations, following the exumple of France, used it for nearly every sort of measurement and ca'" culation. these facts before the farmers in ;every county of the cotton belt. That mills are buying heavily for future requirements there is substantial evidence in the daily news "That this is a matter for serious consideration as an outstanding factor for heavy cotton-acreage reduction in 1927 there is no question of argument. If the crop is sold as fast as ginned, the effect now being made to finance & large portion of the crop wilj be a failure. There is no danger in holding cotton when the price of the staple is so far below the actual cost of production as at present - .. - r "The bankers and every other agency in the South should promptly combine to finance and hold off the market every bale possible. The next effective move of the growers is to plant a largely increased acreage in oats and wheat during the nexxt 30 days. The slogan should be, "Make the South green with small grain." There is no ocasion for a panic even in the face of another large crop. The world must have cotton in ever-increasing quantity each year. | | "The present large surplus will tsoon be absorbed by decreasing production in 1927, jus as happened in 1921, The puchasing power of the growers and the South is being largely destroyed by the present panicky disposition of the farmers to sell. Stop selling. Finance the crop in storage until the mills need the staple next year by making the South green with grain in October and November. Fight to win and not surrender." "Hold tight to your cotton" should be the South's motto just now, and sow wheat and oat and forage crops this fall as never before.; r?D ci inx'ft MFSSARE TO BOY8 (From The Progressive Farmer) The death last week at the age of 92 of Dr. Charles W. Eliot, long president of Harvard University makes it fitting that we reprint the fine message he sent sometime ago to the farm boys who read The Progressive Farmer as given in our April 24 issue:? "It is a promise of success in life if a boy learns by the time he is twelve years oldi to use his eyes, ears, and hands, accurately; that is, if he learns to s< e things exactly as they are, to hear the various sounds and art with precision and enjoyment, and to touch or handle things deftly and effectively whether at work ot at play. "It is another good sign if a boy works harrf while he works and plays hard while he plays, and tries both at work and at play to take a hearty part In 'team play.' "It is another good sign if a boy keeps his senses and his mind on . the alert, watchful to do a serviceable deed or to perform a kind act. , "Again the promising boy will be on the alert for new suggestions, new lessons, and new objects of interest He will not be content merely to follow the beaten path; he will wish to explore, discover, and invent "I advise all boys on farms and in villages to join the Boy Scouts if that organization has been stablishad in their neighborhood, and to nass the tests and examinations in their yorder, at the appropriate ages. / - . . v " -| V ' fA" '?'ZLt'X - *. -m