The Roanoke News
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A weekly Democratic journal de
voted to the material, educational
political and agricultural interest:
of Halifax and surrounding counties
If a man abide not in me, he
Is cast forth as a branch, and
is withered, and men gather
them, and cast them into the
fire, and they are burned.—
John 15:6.
Don’t let us rejoice in punish
ment even when the hand of
God alone inflicts it. The best
of us are but poor wretches, just
saved from the shipwreck. Can
we feel anything but awe and
pity when we see a fellow-pas
senger swallowed by the waves.
—George Eliot.
LOW COTTON AND
FIGHTING WINDMILLS
Sydney J. Cates has a very
interesting article on cotton
in the current issue of The
Country Gentleman. He,
among other things, discloses
that Russia last year grew
500,000 bales of cotton and
is planning to increase its
acreage to 5,000,000. Our
export of cotton has not in
creased for the past several
years, although the use of
cotton in foreign countries
has increased 60 per cent. In
other words, America is los
ing its foreign market for
cotton. This has been a con
trolling factor in the price of
the staple.
Mr. Cates points out that
one of the chief reasons for
this loss is the inferior grade
of cotton grown in America.
Short staples will not fill the
need of a market that wants
an inch-staple or better. He
says that longer staple cot
ton can be grown in this
country and that the co-ops
have rendered a real service
in increasing the length of
this staple. Cotton is the nat
ural crop of the South, ac
cording to Mr. Cates, but if
the South is to make money
in growing it, better staple
must be grown and methods
must be devised so that the
cost of its production can be
lowered. This is necessary if
the cotton farmers are to
compete with cheap Euro
pean and Asiatic labor.
Presumably Mr. Cates is
correct. Certainly no one
should be satisfied with an
inferior product, and it is the
point of wisdom to lower
production cost as much as
possible. That is common
sense. And yet there is one
damning sentence in the ar
ticle that is enough to make
one’s blood boil at the un
fairness exposed therein. It
contains a major secret of
the low ebb of agriculture.
“Cotton farmers must lower
the cost of production if they
are to compete with cheap
foreign labor.”
A manufacturing interest
comes before the Congress ot
the United States and pre
sents facts and figures to
show that profits are toe
small. Its lobbist say in ef
fect, “Unless you give us a
protective tariff, we can not
compete with cheap foreigr
labor.” And the reply of the
Congress in its wisdom (?)
is "your demand certainly
seems reasonable; we wil
be glad to give you protec
tion. American industry must
be protected.”
And then that same Con
gress tells the Southern cot
ton grower: There is nothing
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we can do for you. ‘‘If you’
are. to compete with cheap
foreign labor, you must study
your problem, get better ma
chinery, lower the cost of
production. You must work
out your own salvation."
The question naturally
arises, “Why can’t the Con
gress tell the manufacturers
to lower their own cost by
better methods of produc
tion. instead of giving a tariff
that raises the cost of what
the cotton grower has to
buy?”
Our own folly is responsi
ble for much of our trouble.
We should be fighting for
our economic salvation. In
stead while the monster of
exploitation is impoverish
ing a section, our people are,
like Don Quixote, fighting
windmills. Instead of bend
ing every effort to win eco
nomic justice we are flying
off on tangents of prohibi
tion and religious prejudice
and amid the confusion of
issues the exploitation of a
people and a section con
tinues.
SAYS CENSUS
(Continued from page 1)
State convicts might be utilized in
the manufacture of corrugated cul
vert pipes, which are used to a great
extent in road building, was serious
ly considered. And Chairman J.
Wilbur Bunn, appointed by the
Governor as the temporary succes
sor of Mr. LaRoque announced that
he wants to see the day when in
stead of a 9,000-acre prison farm in
Caledonia the State will work its
prisoners on a 25,000-acre farm
somewhere in Eastern North Caro
lina but that none of it will be
planted in cotton. The Caledonia
prison farm in Halifax county, it
was pointed out, produced 16,500
bushels of wheat this year, an
average of about twenty bushels tc
the acre. He wTould grow tobacco
corn, and truck crops, together witt
the raising of hogs, cattle, sheep
and goats would, it is suggested, gc
a long way toward solving the pris
on problem of the future. Express
ing gratification with the wheat
production, Governor Gardner saic
some of the wheat will be used tc
feed prisoners of the State anc
some of it is to be tested for ger
mination, sacked and sold to farm
ers of the State at reasonable price:
in furtherance of his program o
using State-owned farms to furthe
agricultural progress, all of the
wheat offered to the farmers to b<
“pure bred seed/’ The idea advanc
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ed is to do away with the "scrub"
seed that has been planted from
year to year and develop the sereal
from pure-bred seed. The Prison
farms last year produced around
1.700 bales of cotton. According to
authorities, a million pounds of
meat should be produced every year.
Although his batting average is
said to be good, when it comes to
answering Senate roll calls. Sena
tor Lee S. Overman may have a
fight on his hands for re-nomina
tion two years hence. It is a "fore
gone conclusion" that the Senator
will fight to stay where he has been
"batting" for the past twenty-eight
years. It is also practically certain
that Robert R. Reynolds, "Our
Bob." will be pitted against him
again. The State-wide campaign he
made against Senator Overman in
1926 extended his circle of acquain
tances to every section of the State
and "netted" him over 90,000 votes.
Former Governor Morrison is also
expected to get into the race and
ex-Congressman Clyde R. Hoey may
finally yield to the solicitations of
friends and make it a "quadrupli
cate" affair. Senator Overman is
76 years old and has served as the
junior Senator from North Carolina
sinc.e 1903.
On Wednesday evening of this
week, in the Hall of the House of
Representatives, there will be a
Ask Your Soldier Boy How “Cooties"
Got Such a Hold
He'll tell you that the battlefronts
of Europe were swarming with rats,
which carried the dangerous vermin
and caused our men misery. Don't
let rats bring disease into your
home. When you see the first one,
get RAT-SNAP. That will finish
them quick. Three sizes, 35c, 65c.
$1.25. Sold and guaranteed by Har
rison Drug Co. and Pierce-white
head Hardware Co., Weldon, N. C.,
H. B. Furgerson, Halifax, N. C. adv
When
A CLEANSING
MEDICINE
Is Needed
1 save taken
Black-Draught
all my lire,
whenever i n
need of a medi
cine for con
stipation,”
says Mrs. Q. C.
Burns, of
Buna, Texas.
"My mother
and father
used it in
their home for f
years, and I was raised to
thiiA of it as the first
thing if I had a headache
or was constipated.
"At one time I had indi
gestion real bad. I was
all out of sorts; my skin
was sallow, and I had gas
pains. After a course of
Black-Draught, I got all
right I have given Black
Draught to my children,
whenever they needed a
medicine of the kind.”
Insist on Thedford’s
Black*
Draught
Women who need a tonic
should take Cardul. In use
over 60 years. cx-i«i
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meeting of the Democratic State I
Executive Committee, called for the
purpose of electing a chairman, a
vice-chairman and a secretary to
direct the Fall campaign. No oppo
sition to the re-election of Chair
man Mull has developed and it is
said that Miss Mary Henderson, who
has served as vice-chairman for
some years, has indicated the wish
to retire. Secretary Thos. L. John
son has been promoted to the Su
perior Court bench and the Com
mittee will be called upon to select
a new one for this position, or au
thorize Chairman Mull to pick the
man he wants. The State campaign
is .expected to get started around
the first of September.
On the basis of the present pop
ulation of the State, according to
the Associate Press, the counties of
Guilford, Mecklenburg, and Bun
sammmaamwmmmmmmt
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There Was A
Cigaret Manufacturer
His product was moving slowly. He
covered the nation with his advertise
ments, spending millions of dollars in
the process.
His company sold six times as many
cigarets as formerly. The past year the
company paid the largest dividends in
its history.
THERE IS A LESSON FOR THE LOCAL MER
CHANT IN THE SUCCESS OF THE
CIGARET MANUFACTURER.
Press Publishing Go.
Warrenton
Littleton
Weldon
Enfield
combe will each gain a representa
tive in the lower house of the Gen
eral Assembly, while New Hanover,
Rockingham and Nash will each
lose on?. However, this is not to
take place until the meeting of the
General Assembly of 1933. The next
session of the Assembly will be
called upon to re-arrange the State
senatorial districts. The State will
also be entitled to another Con
gressman. making eleven Repiesen
tatives and two Senators. In live re
apportionment of members of the
State General Assembly Mecklen
burg and Guilford will have four
each and Buncombe three New
Hanover, Rockingham and Nash,
which have two each at present, will
have only one under the re-ar
rangement. There may also be
changes in the congressional dis
trict so that the population could
be more equitable distributed. The
Fifth District now has a popula
tion of 557.275, or double the num
ber of people found in either the
First, Second, Third. Sixth or
Eighth district and this is consider
ed “excessive."
The 1930 census will not only
cause changes in the membership
ol the North Carolina General As
sembly and give the State an addi
tional Congressman. It will also in
crease the share of the State High
way road funds going to the Pied
mont section which is to have
gi eater representation in the Legis
lature, the sum of highway funds
being allocated in proportion to the
districts on the basis of their area,
mileage and population of the State
as a whole. Inter-district division
is handled pretty much the same
way. The central part of the State
has been receiving the "lion's share"
of highway funds, it is said, because
of greater mileage, the fact that it
is more thickly populated and cor
respondingly more traffic. The
mountains in the west and bridges
required in the east makes the cost
of rod construction heavier than
through the Piedmont section, but
the highway equalization fund of
$500,000. set up by the General As
sembly of 1928 enables the Com
mission to supply the needs of the
two "extremes.”
Six or eight prisoners were either
j pardoned or paroled by Governor
| Gardner during the week, one of
| those liberated being Wash Bryant,
at one time a well-to-do farmer of
. Harnett county, who has been serv
ing a term of from fifteen to twenty
five years for killing his wife. An
other who might have departed is
Larken Presnail who turned down
the tender of a parole with the an
swer that he wanted a full pardon
or nothing at all. He did not care
lor clemency with a string tied to
it and will serve his time. Offenders
v'dating a parole are brought back
to serve the entire maximum of
their sentences and Presnail desired
not to have “that thing hanging
over his head." And so the prison
gates did not swing open for him.
The State Board of Health re
ports 142 violent deaths in North
Carolina during the month of June,
automobile accidents causing fifty,
suicide 26. homicide 18 and 21 by
drowning. Fifteen died as the re
sult of burns, three as the result
of automobile and train collisions,
5 in railroad accidents, one from
accidental gunshot wounds and
three from gunshot wounds of an
accidental nature. Tire birth rate for
lest month, according to health
authorities, was 27.2 per 1,000 popu
lation, while the death rate was
12.9 per 1.000 population, and for
children under two years of age
the death rate was three per 1,000
population. An increasing wave of
pellagra cases is reported, or 222
from forty-seven counties. Diarrhea
and enteritis caused 812 deaths
during the month; pulmonary tu
berculosis. 176. infant mortality un
der one year of age. 645; maternal
mortality, 74; whooping cough, 46.
North Carolina peaches are now
rapidly moving toward the markets
and prices are “not so bad.”
Eight boys and four girls have
been elected as official delegates to
the 4-H short course at State Col
lege, August 4 to 9, by the nine or
ganized clubs of Polk County.
LEGAL NOTICES
TOWN ORDINANCE
Any person failing to assist in
making arrest or to assist a Peace
Officer in any way, after being sum
Dociors Disagree,
When children arc irritable "and
peevish, grind their teeth, and sleep
restlessly, have digestive pains and dis
turbances, lack of appetite, and have
itching eyes, nose and fingers, doctors
will not always agree that they are suf
fering from worms. Many mothers, too,
will not believe that their carefully
brought up children can have worms.
The fact remains that these symptoms
will yield, in a great majority of cases,
to a’few doses of White's Cream Ver
mifuge, the sure expcllant of round
and pin worms. If your child has any
of these symptoms, try this harm
less, old fashioned, remedy, which
! you can get at 35c per. bottle, from
i Harrison Drug Co., Weldon, N. C.
nioned to do so by the proper au
thorltles. shall pay a fine of $2000.
The Chief of Police and other
policeman of the Town of Weldon
are hereby authorized and empow
ered to accept bail for the appear
ance in the Magistrate’s Court of
any person who shall be taken into
custody, charged with a bailable of
fense. when such person cannot con
veniently be taken before the Magis.
trate for such purpose.
It shall be unlawful for any per
son or persons to loiter on the side
walks in front of any bowlingy^ley
in the Town of Weldon. Y
The rental charge on water meters
shall be as follows:
5-8 in. meters
3-4 in. meters ---
jl7-4t
.25 per month
.37 per month
.54 per month
.73 per month
.98 per month
_ 1.46 per month
THE TOWN OF WELDON
By K. Wood, Clerk
in. meters
1 1-4 in. meters
1 1-2 in. meters
2 in. meters
ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE
Having duly qualified as adminis
trator upon the Estate of John H.
House, deceased, late of Thelma.
Halifax county, North Carolina.
This is to notify all persons hav
ing claims against sa'd estate to
present them, properly verified, to
me on or before January ), 1931 of
this notice may be plead In bar of
their recovery.
All persons indebted to said es
tate will please make immediate
settlement with me. x—
T. M. HOUSE, Administrator
506 Maury St., Richmond, Va. jyl-6
DAYS OF SUFFERING
NOW QUICKLY ENDED
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Iff tht iMfwt refiV you per with Dillard $
Aiptrgum. Almoit before you know it the pain
diiupfiri. yoar nerves suddenly relai.
With Aepsrgu* you chew the pain away. For
it ia the ineat aspirin obtainable put up in
shewing gum form- Now you can taka aspirin
any time, any place. No water. No bitter
taste. No choking sensation. Because you thew
Dillard's Aepsrgum the aspirin miles thoroughly
with the saliva so that all its soothing qualities
are effective quickly, continuously. t
It brings quick relief from aching heads, tooth
ache. the pains of neuritis, neuralgia, even them*
metism. If your druggist doss not bees Dillard's
Aspergum. send for a free sample to Health
Products Corporation. Dept* A, 113 North 13th
Street, Newark, N. J.
From Youth to Ago
There are three trying periods in s
woman’s life: when the girl matures
to womanhood, when a woman
gives birth to her first child, whan s
woman reaches middle age. At
these timee Lydia E. Flnkham’e
Vegetable Compound help* to to*
■tore normal health and vigor.
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