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TWfi Washington, April 19. ? The sorest spot in the nation's econom ic set-up is cotton. It is also a point) upon which a sharp contro versy is raging between the Ad ministration and the Senators and Representatives from the cotton growing states. The problem is how to move to market the 11,500.000 bales of cotton which have been held over from previous years, carried in warehouses by the aid of govern ment loans of a little over eight cents a pound. Cotton exports have declined from a former average of sevenmillion bales a year to under four million. The cotton planters of the South produce an average of twelve bil lion bales. Foreign and domestic markets combined will not take more than ten billion bales at a price that will enable cotton own ers to pay off the government loans against the stock tn storage. The Secretary of Agriculture and the President! have proposed to pay owners of stored cotton a bonus in cash to release their cot ton for export at 6 Vj cents a pound, at which price it is figured that an additional market' will be found for two million bales. That amount would about balance the annual surplus. The plan would cost the Gov ernment from sixty to ninety mil lion dollars a year. A part of it is the proposal to increase duties on cotton manufactured goods, RT keep products made from Ameri can cotton from coming in to com pete with American textile manu facturers, and to pay our manu facturers a subsidy on goods ex ported to compete in foreign mar kets. Proposed Solutions The Smith-Bankhead bill, which has passed the Senate, proposes to solve the cotton problem by letting farmers buy back the cotton 011 which they have received eight c< nti loans, for three cents a pound, on condition that the growers re duce production this year to com pensate for the cotton they buy; nnd that instead of price-stabiliz ing loans growers of this year's crop be given a subsidy of t'hree cents a pound on all they grow. The estimated cost of this plan would be $105 millions loss to the Government 011 cotton loans al ready made, and $180 millions on this year's cTOp~Bjr way of subsidy. Another farm-erop whose grow ers are beginning to demand more sugar. Here l<he problem Is not one of enlarging our export market, but of keeping foreign sugar out of the domestic market. The sugar situation is a compli cated one. Under the Sugar Act of 1937, the Secretary of Agriculture annually estimates the total do mestic consumption of sugar for the preceding year. The law now provides that only fifty-five and a fraction per cent of the nation's sugar needs may be grown In the United States, about 45 per cent' being allotted to foreign countries, '-chiefly Cuba and the Philippines. Can Ship 800,000 Tons Under the Philippine Indepen dence Act that country is entitled for several years, to ship 800,000 tons of raw sugar and 50,000 tons of refined sugar to this country free of all duty. Under the reciprocal trade trea ty with Cuba negotiated by the State Department, Cuba has to pay only nine-tenths of a cent a pouud on sugar it ships to the United States, and Is allowed to send into this market) roughly two million tons a year. I IJefinie limits of the tonnage of sugar which other nations may send to the United States are fixed by percentages of the total estima ted consumption. All countries ex cept Cuba and the Philippines have to pay $1.87 cents a hundred pounds duty. Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands, all Important sug ar producing countries, being a part of the United Slates, pay no duty on their sugar shipped here. Parti of the sugar control plan is the payment of subsidies under the Soil Conservation Act, to re ward sugar planters for keeping their sugar lands out of produc tion. These subsidies, of $24 an acre a year, run into big money for the large sugar companies produc ing cane sugar in the South and the island territories, and beet) su gar in the West. One comparatively small sugar company in Florida, by reducing its acreage in cane, received $437, 000 cash from the Oovernment last year; some of the large Louis iana companies get annual subsidy payments running to millions. Muppon rruin r lunoa Under this system Cuba supplies about) two million tons of the an nual domestic sugar consumption of around seven million tons; the Philippines about half as much. A group of Senators, headed by Senator Ellender of Louisiana, and including most of the members of both Houses from the cane-grow ing and sugar beet states, has star ted a movement to revise the Su^ gar Act, limiting permitted im ports to 40 per cent or less. The proposal has strong support from Florida, where two or three mil lion acres of caneland might be utilized were it not for t>he foreign and domestic quota restrictions. , Administration opposition to any change in the foreign sugar quotas is based upon the bene&ts to American industry which tti is contended have been derived from the Cuban trade treaty. In exchange for the reaction jn sugar duties, Cuba granted reduc tions on more than 40?Lj/ifi'erent American manufactured items, i The result, tihe Commerce and ! State departments contend, has I been to increase sales of American igoods to Cuba from around $25 | millions a year to more than $95 [millions; while Cuba is selling $75 {millions of sugar to this country. ? _ ? ? W. T. MANNING DEAD News has been received here of |the death of W.- T. Manning, of jGoble, Ore., natiive of this State, which occurred after a short ill ness in a Convalescent Home 011 April 1st. Member of a large and prominent family, he was a son of the late L. B. Manning, of Halifax County. Mr. Manning was a pupil of the late J. J. Allen, of Franklin Coun ty. when he taught his first school at Rlngwood, and also attended t'he John Graham Academy in Warrenton. Before going to North Dakota some fifty-five years ago. Manning Brothers, W. T. and Dr. Henry E. [Manning, published the Roanoke iNews (semi-weekly) at Weldon, -successors to Stone arid Uzzell. for a period of two years; Mr. Jordan 'Stone joining the saff of the Ashe ville Citizen. Selling the Weldon plant t'hey went to Danville, Va., and conducted a morning news paper. The Danville Daily News, for about the same period. While Mr, Manning was a man of far more than ordinary endorse ments and business ability, yet a check of the varied phases com prising his long and active career would seem almost incredible. He had the paradoxical distinction -perhaps of having ? traveled as widely in the United States, in which lie made his residence in twelve of them, at times, and en gaging in as many business enter ! prises as any man who ever left his native heath for adventure. He had lived in Virginia, Georgia, Louisiana, Florida, North and I South Dakota. Minnesota. Wiscon sin. Illinois, California. Washing ton. D. C., and State. Oregon, and perhaps others not recalled. Ho was also twice a resident of Alas ka. spending several years each time. During his first residence the fur seal industry was flourish ing at its height. He returned to the States for a while, but went back later and served as Deputy to Chief Marshal Williams, former Missourian, whom he knew in the States. When the memorable' Klon dyke gold craze broke out causing a stampede of thousands of gold 3eekers from the U. S., it found him there among the first without having to go. It is not recorded jthat Mr. Manning emassed a for Itune in any particular one of his |many adventures, but it is believ ed that he barely missed a nuni iber of small ones by not staying Ion to stick it out a little longer. He had a valuable 160 acre Gov jernment homestead bordering the Itlien small settlement of Pierre, now the capital of South Dakota, (and there are other, similar instan ces. He abandoned his homestead ' to make his first t?rip to Alaska. I When he felt the urge to seek new fields he would go regardlss. He would get back in the newspaper business at times, having publish ed a Trades Journal at Chicago, jand a weekly paper at Dunsemeir. Cal., for some .time. He was a ' man of pleasing and jattractive personality, of temper ;at? habits; and." best of all, he loved humanity to the extent that, when iu position to do so he con tributed largely of his means and sacrificed much in preserving the welfare of others. Mr. Manning married a daugh ter of the late George D:? White, of Oakland, Cal. Mr. White also jwas a native of this State, and conducted a lajge mercantile bus iness at Weldon, before going to Mr. Manning was preceded in death by three brothers and two sisters: Dr. B. Prank Manning, of Fargo, N. Dak.; Dr. Henry E. Manning, of Portland. Ore., and Thad R. Manning, of Henderson. N. C., founder and long editor of ithe Henderson Gold Leaf. The sisters are Mrs. C. W. Dunn, of ( Scotland Neck, and Mrs. David C. Mangum, of Henderson. i He is survived by one son, Geo. David Manning, of Oakland. Cat..; one brother. George Manning, of Louinhu Iff r- Rt. -itr and? three ?is ? (ters: Mrs. R. A. Patterson, of jHavre., Moll., Mrs. Annie M. Banks and Miss Pattie ^-Rebecca Manning, of Norfolk, Va.; also a number of nieces and nephews. I'XCHAXGKD Demand conditions under which tobacco growers will market their 1 1939 crop are expected to hold relatively stable as compared with ! demand factors during the current season, predicts tile. IT. S. Bureau i of Agricultural Economics. ? KKtOltD Cherry, an 8-yfcar-old shorthorn cow. owned in England, recently (set a new world's record for a [year's milk production. She pro duced 41.644 'a pounds, or an a>' jerage of 57 quart's a day. Watch this car ! JVHE CAR to watch is the one behind the car in front of yours ! And this same car is the one' that ought to be completelj insured. CHAS. I FORD AGENCY LOUISBURG. N. C. Chas, E. Ford John Williamson PICTURE FRAMING I HAVE JUST RECEIVED A COMPLETE LINE OF PICTURE MOLDING AND SUP PUBS AND CAN MAKE YOUR FRAMES FOR YOU, r, ALSO HAVE A COMPLETE LINE OF FURNITURE AND HOUSE FURNISHINGS. B 0 B B I T T FURNITURE CO. - R. A. BOBBITT, Proprietor Hitting Sensation BW V ? ? ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. . . . Pat- 1 rick (Pete) Harold Reiser, 19 year-old Brooklyn Dodgers rookie who, in nine times at bat hasj walked once, hit three home runs and five sineles. "Some people are so certain that salvation is free," asserts the Dea con, "they neglect to pay their church pledges." VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL I CUM* TO BE HELD IX WAKRENTON The second Vacation Bible 1 School Clinic for the benefit ot t-he churches of Tar River Baptist As- i sociation will be held in Warren-! ton Baptist Church on the evening of Monday, April 24th. The clinic will begin at 7:00 o'clock in order that the necessary work may be completed by it: 15 o'clock. In- 1937 Southern Baptists had I more than 2500 Vacation Bible | schools. I.ast year there were j about 2000. The movement began in 1901. For a good many years! the schools were conducted mainly in the larger city churches. But ; rural schools are now increasing rapidly in number. Many churches have found that they can have ' schools that' will greatly help the boys and girls and enrich the church in spite of limited equip ment and little money. These schools are for the benefit of all : boys and girls during the summer months while they are out of reg- ] ular school work. Special atten tion is given to religious inst-ruc- j tlon. character building, vocation-' al guidance, and recreation. Last year the following church es in Tar River Association had Vacation Bible schools: Centerville Corinth. Fishing Creek. Harris Chapel, Henderson First, Little- 1 ton, Louishurg. Macon, 'Mount Zion, Norlina, Philadelphia and i Vaughan. The clinic to be held in Warren- ' ton is to? the benefit of all pas tors, Sunday School superintend- ! ents and all church members of i I LIKE CAMELS I SO MUCH, AND ] IT HELPS MY FEEUNG OF POISE TO i > LET UP? 4 LIGHT UP A CAMEL _ .a. -w _ FOR SMOKING PLEASURE AT ITS BEST CAMEL f/ie cigarcftc of Cbsf/t'cr 7omccos . . f a APPLIED AT CHOPPING MADE THE DIFFERENCE aF you did not apply enough potash at planting time or if your cotton rusts, it will cost little to apply more potash in a nitrogen-potash top dresser. The increased yields, control of rust, reduced wilt injury, and improved quality which will result from this extra potash will return the small investment many times. Heavier bolls, more lint per seed, longer staple, stronger fibers, and easier picking also result. An increase of S15 to $25 per acre in the value of the crop due to the extra potash has been secured in practical field teste and experimental work. ^ J Your county agent or experiment station will tell you whether you applied enough potash at planting time. See your fertilizer dealer or manu* facturer about adding the equivalent of 50-100 lbs. of muriate of potash in a nitrogen-potash top* dresser. Keep your plants growing vigorously into the profits which you plan to make this year. ** s ? ? $ Write us for oui\ s , free booklet, " Greater Profits from Cotton." American Potash Institute mconroMTiD mvMTtoarr avtLsma > wmiumoton. d. a tovTtnm orrtct: modtoaoi ovahahtii una. atlahta. QA. lllMiCffl? the Association who are interested in learnirig about the Vacation Bi ble school: its purpose, work and promotion. A11 who are interested in a schoofTor 5-0111 church are urged t>o attend. Remember: War renton Baptist Church. April 24th, 7 : 00 P. M. w'.at Kit srri'i.v . Kdmond-Hill, of Marshvillg, Route 3, will bring his spring, lo cated 50 yards from the house, in to the kitchen by means of electric pump which he is installing since he has a power line' now running by the farm. J. B. Allen, of Marsh v i 1 It'. Route 2. has also installed a pump in a well 0o supply water to his home, barns and poultry houses. BKK1-' IN ANSON Adam Lockhart and V. B. Bla lock are leading the procession in growing pure bred Hereford beef cattle 011 Anson farms. Henry Mar tin. Jr., and Fred Caudle recently purchased two beef calves from Mr. Lockhart to start a 4-H beef calf project. Uncle Jim Satis"1 rr^-pT^iirr^ 7i ? . .'~i ! Agricultural efficiency has more t>han kept pace with industrial ef ficiency, observes specialists of the ;State College Extension Service. iFrom 1910 to 1930 farm efficiency increased 41 per cent and indus trial efficiency 39 per cent. ?r;*' r4 /? is Vic Ok&j tianspartation j ; 13 I //tcl ! 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