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iHMM W WISCONSIN CITY PUTS UNEMPLOYED! BACK ON PAYROLL! j Green Bay Organizes Against Unemployment and Procures Jobs for More Than a Thousand Men and Women. Heavy Snow Aids in Campaign Backed by American Legion. Registration System Used. By CALEB JOHNSON (Special Writer for The Democrat) The way to aid unemployment is to put men back tc work. Unemployment is a problem which affects everybody in every community. It is up to all the people of each community, therefore, to take part ill pveyy intelligent effort to find jobs for those who need them. And the most intelligent, effort nf this sort that I know of is what they did at Green Bay, Wisconsin. Any community, of any size, can organize for unemployment relief on the Green Bay plan. In that town of 40,000 population, in one month's time, more than 1,000 men and women were put back to work. Some of 1 them had not had a job for two years. There were 1,745 out of work when the united efforts began. At the end of a month 1,023 of these had been placed in permanent jobs and the fiij rest all had either temporary or parttime jobs, so that there was nobody } out. of work in Green Bay except J those unable to work, and the "float- * ers." The Green Bay campaign started by the Mayor issuing a proclamation that all the whistles in the city would blow from 7:30 to 7:32 on the morning of the drive's start, and all the bells in town would ring. The fire and police departments used their sirens, and all autos came to a stop an? d;gw tncir norns lor two min- v utes. At 10:30, reports were broad 1 east over the local radio station of ' the drive's results. Noon lunches, radio talks, and pre- c potatory newspaper stories told the 8 town that Green Bay would have 0 jobs for half of its unemployed with- * in three hours. A captain was as- 1 signed to each of the 500 city blocks, ' asking each resident for a pledge, of * - vWv-hours* work weekly at forty cents 1 an hour. ' As soon as the block drive was over ? every employer in the town was per- i1 serially contacted by phone, letter, f or personal call of the unemploy- '' mont committee's chairman. These men were urged to keep the same '' number of men they had on t'oe pay- v roll in 1029. if necessary by stftg- ? Bering the work, shorter hours, and e re forth. The results was that over v 700 men were called back to their l j.,'; old jobs. 7*75 la spite of the fact that mild wee- c ther killed the usual snow-shoveling " and street-cleaning jobs, the plan was successful. Every home, store and " shop in the town was visited. A registration system and check-up 5 of addresses served to distinguish ' floaters" from the resident unemployed. J The Department of Wisconsin of the American Legion adopted the ? Green Bay plan, which is working.1 with great success in that State, and jv in other cities throughout the coun- 1 ii-v. It is not a self-operative plan, " by any means, anil calls for co-opor-i'1 ation on the part of all the civic cle-!1 men's in a town, groupeS around the i' Legion Post as a working nucleus. * The working body consists of the be- 11 gior.'s unemployment committee; lo- 1 cal newspaper publishers; the Mayor; 1 local organized labor executives; mar.- 0 ager of local radio station; presidents of the service clubs; chamber 1 of commerce president; advertising v ciub presidents; heads of industries; 1 bank executives, and so on. Cards bearing the official seal of ] the City of Green Bay were used to 1 identify workers, who were given in- 1 troductory letters. ' Employment was provided for men and women regardless of legion af- , filiation, race, color, or creed. Unemployment was the only qualification. Willingness to work was the .only test. Any town can do what Green Bay 1 accomplished. It calls for organiza- ; tion and effort. Your Legion post is I a natural nucleus. If there is no post in your town, one of the 30,000 branches of organizations affiliated i with the American Federation of Labor is the rallying point. This plan calls for no discussion, no argument about theories or politics. Nobody can object to giving ? work to those who are not working , now. The effort is repaid in more iiiaii moral satisfaction. Tk means that those now hoarding money will spend for normal necessities when the spectre of unemployment is removed. In cocmmunities where civic activities are small, where the population chiefly serves an outlying agricultu-1 ral district, this plan may be widened to take in the farms. There is room on the land for those men who cannot find work in the town. In these instances, heads of agricultural o-ganizations such as the Grange, etc., may be added to the worning committee. Groups of farmers may pool together to pay for the services of a laborer who can work one day or more on individual properties. A letter used by the Green Bay committee puts the case in concise language: "Dear Fellow Citizen: "The Green Bay Unemployment Relief Commission thanks you sinjj$f. -i" ft ================= BOONE ?. T1LI-ETT Charlotte Attorney Out for State Office Charlotte.?Boone D. Tillett, Charlotte attorney, is a candidate for icutenant governor of North Caroina on the Republican ticket, accordng to a formal announcement made ast week. The Charlotte man was led to anlouneo himself as a Republican canlidate for the lieutenant governor;hip af*ir being urged to make the ace by ;arty members and friends. mrticularly in Dare and Durham ounties, he said. Republican friends n the eastern section of the State ire planning a campaign for him hat will take him into each of the lOO counties of the state for speaking ^" ngements. erely for assisting to overcome the jreat burden of unemployment in iur city this winter, by hiring a man 0 do your chores. This man will cport at once to begin this work n your block. Please treat him as a ellow-citizon asking not charity, but nerelvi-the-onnortiinity- to nam a livng for his family. Find things for, ,im to do. You are entitled to his | ieJp in ali of the reasonable little; obs about your property, and He will | e glad to be assigned to these tasks.! 1 other work comes up requiring lainters, panorhangers, carpenters, ?on't you please call the City Hall nd this commission will send the iropcr, dependable mar. tc do the ?'ork,?a townsman out of work at * *?.a-J x_ u . _^r_ ?t.;_ ur viuic. uci n uu ao ui?>mo i i-ork this winter as possble. Let's reate jobs and overcome unemployrient in our own city and bring Green lay back to normal. We must all elp. We must, not let unemployment pread farther nor wreck our comluriity health and happiness. "Do not engage anyone except The Man in the Block' to do snowhoveling or other small jobs this winer. Do not pay any wages to anyne who does not show you his card com this commission. You agree .ilh us that we should keep this work or our own townsmen, and married sen first. The man who comes to o your work must have a card from his commission upon which will be he seal of the City cf Green Bay. 'ay nobody else. Tin- i ate is -40 cents! in hour. The agreement is not less hun two hours a week, for the winer months. Your man will collect nice a week on Saturday. "Again we thank you for assisting is to lelievc distress in our city, and von't you please continue to co oper tte with your city, by having all of he work possible r.ucn as morenizing, Improving, repairing, painting, cleanng, paperhanging, plumbing etc. done his winter and done by men obtained 'vom the City Hall.*' Mien and Brooks Offer Prizes in Milk Campaign Dr. A. T. Allen, superintendent of Public Instruction, and Dr. E. C. Brooks, president of North Carolina State College, have joined the list of promoters of the State-wide Milk-forHealth Campaign. To increase North Carolina's milk consumption and to interest the schools in this timely health movement. Dr. Allen and Dr. Brooks utc offering prizes for the best milk rhymes or bits of poetry written by school children on the subject of milk. Dr. Allen is offering a silver cup for the best milk rhyme furnished by any pupil in the graded schools of the State, while Dr. Brooks is offering a silver cup for the best milk rhyme submitted by any high school pupil of the State. Contestants for these State prizes must have their rhymes in the office of the State Board of Health not later than noon, April 25th. They must be original and not exceed six line; in length. LENOIR BANKER APPOINTED T< FINANCE ADVISORY BOARE *> Lenoir, N. C.?F. H. Coffey, prom inent furniture manufacturer an! president of the Union National Ban! here, has been notified of his ap pointment as a member of the recon struction finance corporation advisor; commission for North Carolina. H accepted. He said he had not bee: advised what his duties would be bn understood a branch office was t be opened in Charlotte. THE WATAUGA DEMOCRAT?EV COW POPULATION i I IN WATAUGA GIVES i ! SURPLUS OF MILK One of Nine Counties in State Producing More of the Fluid Than Is Consumed Locally. Alleghany Is at Head of List With One Cow to Each 2.9 Persons. Dare County Makes Poor Showing. i With one hundred counties in North Carolina being called on to set up as many county-wide Milk-for-Health campaigns for the definite purpose of increasing the use of milk and dairy products as health foods, the question arises, what about the cow population. With an additional large nmnbpr of our population drinking milk, will it be able to meet the de-. mand rnniU upon it for more milk? I According to an issue of the Pro- . gressive Farmer for March, 1930,'i there are only about half as many, cows in North Carolina as should he ( if the average American standard of 1 one cow for each five persons is main-!' tained. Only nine counties in the ] State have more than one cow for. * each five persons, while the major-. ! itv r?Y thp TOTYinlninrr n!nnftrnn ft I ties are far below the average. The counties have sufficient milk for their population and some to spare are for the most part in the western section < of the State: They are: Alleghany, * Clay. Ashe, Watauga, Macon, Davie, ( Jactcson, Graham and Henderson. Al- i lcghany County has one cow for ev- ( cry 2.9 persons, while Dare County J has only one cow for each 16.4 persons. j Counties at the bottom of the list j4 in the number of milk cows per per- j ^ son are Dare, New Hanover, Wilson,1 j Carteret, Lenoir, Martin, Pitt, Edge-'c , combe, Chowan, Brunswick, Robeson, ^ ! Onslow, Bertie, Beaufort, Craven, j I Wayne, Scotland. Columbus, Nash, ( I Cumberland, Dupiin. Greene, Forsyth, t | Harnett, Halifax, Hertford, Johnston, j Durham, Washington, Sampson and \ | Wake. The number of cows needed in f these counties to reach the American Y la\*eragc range from 1,000 in Dare to < j 11,000 in Wake and 15,000 in For- t i syt.h. t The above, figures are based on 1928 ataciaiiCa auu \vliiie it is auITilt i ted tliat the actual proportion of human to cow population of the various f counties may have changed somewhat c in the intervening period, it is be- x lieved that the proportional rate of r increase in the number of cows has been no greater than fhe rate of In- i crease of inhabitants. In any event, the State's consumption of milk is less than one-half pint per person per day. while the average of some other States is one pint per person r per day. E c Government Seed Loans To Be Placed Carefully ! Though the maximum loan which j1 will he made to any farmer out of ^ the reconstruction loan fund set up . by Congress amounts to $400, it is _ more likely that this amount will av- p erage around $75. Only 50 million ? dollars has been appropriated for this fund and further money will be * dependent upon the sale of bonds c | issued for the purpose. The fund this ^ year is not for farmers alone in I ornpo }\1lf foil tlin T.1 vi- in the United States, except two states, who cannot get credit 11 locally. * "This means," says Dean I. O. Sehauh of State College, "that the v county conupfitlees must, scrutinise all applications vevy carefully and r_ that further inspection of the applications will be made in Washington 1 r befoie any loan is approved. Then,;1 too, no loan will be allowed for any!** increase in cash crops. Some in- j creases will be allowed in truck crops;' grown for home use. The farmer glowing over ten acres of cotton and * three acres of tobacco last year must ' agree to reduce his acreage by 35, per cent, for both crops this year!3 and no man who did not grow the two j' crops last year will be given a loan to produce such crops this year." I Mr. Schaub wants its carefully kept, j in mind that these loans are not gifts j" but must be repaid at the rate of C 1-2 per cent, interest secured by a mortgage on the crop. The crops : must be grown according to the ad- [ vice and suggestion of the county agent. Those farmers receiving loans last year in drought areas will be rated, according to how they repaid the loan and this will, in a large measure, determine whether new loans will be made to them this vear. said Mr. Schaub. He stated that machinery for making the loans is being organized rapidly and that as soon as the blanks i are received from Washington, the committees will be ready to push the applications through. 1 TRY THIS BAIT, GIRLS, WHEN FISHING FOR A HUSBAND j ) New York.?Four words of leapj > year advice for girls came last week from Dr. Boris Sokoloff, the Rus-! - sian scientist. i "Any girl can marry any man in fe the world," he said, "if she repeats' - very often to him these four words:! - " 'You are so wonderful.' " y ] e East Coast Fish Body and Fish n Meal Fertilisers. No re-ground sand t filler in Fish Fertilizer. Prices are o much lower this year. See us before you buy. Edw. N. Hahn & Son. ERY THURSDAY?BOONE, N. C. Optimistic! STACF.Y W WADF. Candidate for Secretarj Of State Has Not Losl Faith in North Carolim >tac?y W, Wade Optimistic on Fu l.ure of Old North State. Diversified Resources Will Bring a Greater Prosperity. Raleigh, N. C.?Stacey W. Wade randidate for Secretary' of State, if m optimist on the future of Nortl Carolina. As Insurance Commissionei :rom 1922 to 1927 he was conspicu >us among the boosters for the 01c tforth State. "l have lost none of my faith ir ^forth Carolina," Mr. Wade declares 'We have been hard hit by the de )ression, but we shall come out o: t as we have come out of others ii >ur history, and We shall achieve evei jreatcr things than we did in th? )ast. North Carolinians have lost noni >f the heroism that has carried then hrough vicissitudes and misfortunes.' Mr. Wade called attention to th? ract that few states have as divers! jed resources as North Carolina ant lone of them a great er history. Nortl Carolina has been to the front in ev fry war, he explained, and in peace hey have done their full share to vard making this the greatest nntior n the worui touuy. While Mr. Wade has announced no formal platform, he is a recognizee ihampion of the public schools and nc nan in the State has given them here loyal backing than he, ?oor Economy to Grind Roughage Feed It is not. necessary to grind the ?ughages ordinarily used for live tock feed and certainly it is pool cono my to do so with all feeds as dv. in price as they are now. "We have come in contact recenty with such misleading propaganda a regard to the advantages of grindig foods for livestock," says L. I. :ase, animal husbandman at State lollege. "Some of this material is inding its way into the agricultural ress and much of it is being dissminatcd by salesmen of feed grindig mills who, of course, are intersfced in selling their product. I re ently overheard a salesman who was iving a demonstration of his mahine say that, the grinding of corr tover would make it 100 per cent igestibie. Such a statement is ridic ilous on its fjieo because corn sro er at best is only about 50 per cent [igestible, and no amount of grinding rill make it any more so." Mr. Case says no hard and fas ules may be laid down for evevj arm but generally speaking it doe: lot pay to grind roughage. He say: hat livestock men engaged in re ;earcb at the experiment stations o he United States are about 100 pe :ent. in agreement on this. In feeding beef cattle where hog ire to follow the beeves, it does no my even to grind corn. Old feeder mow this by experience and the ma iority of them feed broken ear cori shelled corn, says Mr. Case; Abou :he same thing is true in feeding con to hogs. Numerous feeding trial prove conclusively that there is littli saving in feeding ground corn to hog In place of ear corn or shelled corn Before a livestock man allows him self to be persuaded into this extri expense, he should get his facts fron unbiased sources and govern his ac lion accordingly, says Mr. Case. NAVY PILOT TAKES TO CHUTE AFTER DROPPING 7,000 FEE" T ;antAT,?nf ITOaillllgl'UU. UH.UHJKU11. -? 1V.UVI iek M. Traphell. one of the navy' "three flying fish," took a meteori ride earthward for some 7,000 fee last Thursday in a tailless plane b< fore completing his drop by pan chute. He was unhurt as he floated dow on a farm near Oxon Hill, Marylam a quarter of a mile from the wreel age of the combat plane he had bee testing at the Anacostia Naval A Station. . Trapneii had taken the plane i for the final stages of ten days te flying preliminary to its acceptam by the navy when at 15,000 feet tl tail sector carried away after he hi turned the cose straight down in screaming power dive. He rode tl plunging wreck 7,000 feet before J j nally unfastening his safety belt ai ; shoving out of the cockpit. Heavy snow in Scotland fore , many postmen to use skiis on t I routes. | Alabama Horticulturist Produces Marketable Potatoes From Leaves .. ~ * 21 vt Also Grows Sweet Potatoes and To- a ^atocs from Leaf Cuttiiig*. Rev- ^c olutionary Discovery May m Prove of Great Value. ai si Auburn, Ala.?Potato leaves set on n< edge in ordinary greenhouse washed sand will take root, grow into sturdy ! ff plants and produce tubers when trans- < j planted in the field. j Such is the finding reported by' d< Dr. C. L. Isbell, horticulturist at Ala- ] sc bama Polytechnic Institute, after a: 'h three-year series of experiments in i? which he grew commercial size sweet' m potatoes, Irish potatoes and tomatoes : sc from leaves, and in some instances j m parts of leaves. |w Dr. tsbell is not sure of the prac- i di tica! use of his discovery, but be-1 m i iioves it may be valuable in iabora-' ai - tory studies of plant diseases and the i R' r damage wrought by insects. j t! I. It is a revolutionary idea for the: ? farmer, who now raises Irish potatoes I s< t dii-ectly from part.s of the tuber and | bi transplants sweet potaio and tomato | ei , ** n Enthusiasm without ti automobile without an j places and do things. Your Patronage ff > j ;| Watauga Cot o I Mr. Fa I SEED T] I ALMOS1 We are quoting very a 1 grass seeds this spring . ! A nVini 11 r?nf?-Vip> If \ArViat We have received a si lowing seeds: J Red Clover, White Clc Alsike Clover, Timot 1 chard Grass, Pastur g and Timothy Mix t Lawn Grass, ( 3 Korean Le B We have a very atti on any of the above s< * and delivered by Ma have in stock Enkfu penhagen Market e Cabbage Seeds; seve den and cornfield be; Itleman and Mamm .. ,i n i c. iviaiiinioiii i\eu ijhj Pride and White Bu All the above seeds foinoklo onrl flia r*rie n r TERMS ON SI !I1 i T PC?? jpt Watch this space fr 'e I* Will p) id LFarmers H Supply C THREE BIG AND UGLY" MEN ARF. DESIRED BY THE LADIES Chapel Hill. N. 0.?Thu Daily Tar eel, student newspeper at cue ciui usitv of North Carolina, has taken poll of girls on 17 college campuses ? find what traits and qualifications e demanded of the "ideal man," id oddly enough, two of the requites listed were "bigness and ugli*ss." The composite "ideal," it was tund, would live up to his name. ;le must not wear a moustache. rhether lie is a blonde or brunette >es not matter. He must have a ;nse of humor, dress neatly, be a appy medium* between the 'cute* >llege-boy type and the seriousinded student, possess a fairly high >cial standing and 'reasonable fiances,' be a good conversationalist ithout 'stringing lines,' be a good ancer, he congenial, honest, broadinded, economical, ambitious, kind, ;tentive. considerate, auurgetic auu sncrous," to mention only a few of ic desirable qualities. iedlings from hotbeds in which tuers and seed have first been sprouti. Enthusiasm i outside evidence of inde belief. lie best evidence of a oung men's ability to put himself across" is )und in the activity of is Savings Account. irift reminds us of an engine. It doesn't go Hi Be Appreciated inty Bank rrner | (ME is I 1 ClG<nE< | ittractive prices on y. The price is just it was a year ago. -iipment of the fol>ver, Sapling Clover, hy, Red Top, Ore Mixture, Alsike :ed, Blue Grass, Common and | spedeza, fi active proposition ieds which are sold irch I Oth. We also lizen, Danish, Comd Golden Acre ral varieties of garans; Country Genioth Sweet Corn; 1. T~> - , T__ ILK juccls: I t H i v ? ? ? ? J J J ? rley tobacco seed. / are the best obes are very low. IEDS: CASH om week to week. ?y you! ardware & Company
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