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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.
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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;
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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*?<L. permanent stabili y
Sal prv rtions brings no moreJ* ntai0nal econ
Wired, uuU it has its foundaUonson 1 r roU9t be the
K"ia*ti t. of extravagance and g 0f all- Th? d
ft of Brfisperi'.y that enhances the made available
ft rbeut , ,:Vy when something has Qr accompbshmen
ft-eithrr in resources. laLor, Be __oSperity. AU ?,f? m??
ft*e did r t have before. That is P ^ bef0re. A 1)00
ft8?.'' thai burst and leave us poore roftde any body or
ftfcthinR f..r nothing, and that never
ri pros^i rous.
ft \ sw just after
ft??t like a lantern hung m thes eas ejupiter, big
ft* ?ow the bright I and beautiful pi
** to our own earth.
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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
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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
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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 ]
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>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
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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
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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
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"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."
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Another sweet potato storage
I house has been built in Halifaj
! County. This one wil lhold 1.000C
i bushels.
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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*
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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
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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
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l Mayor E. C. itomfli of Miami was la
New York when the hurricane hit
Florida, and started at once for his
stricken city.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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"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.
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"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.
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