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ALL THE COTTON
POSSIBLE ON 10 PER
CENT LESS ACREAGE
THE ROBESON IAN, THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 1918.
Progressive Farmer.
For three years in succession, a
very unusual occurrence we have had
short cotton crops. These crops have
been less than the normal demands
and less than the demands of these ab
normal times.
The result is an unusually high and
attractive price for the cotton produc
er. It is true that the price of cotton
is not higher relatively and has not
Increased more than many other com
modities. But nevexthciefc.i the price
is such as to make the production of
cotton a very attractive farming or
business proposition, so attractive in
deed, that there's danger that the acre
age will be increased, whish it seems
to us is most undesirable. The object
ion to an increased acreage of cottonis
not so much in the danger that too
much cotton will be produced as that
too little attention and too small an
acreage will be devoted to the pro
duction of food and feed crops. For
the boll weevil, scarcity of labor, the
demand for cotton lint, cottonseed oil
"Gets.H"-2 Drops
Then to the Dance !
"Goodnight to Corn Pains Corns
Peel Off With "Gets-It."
"Say, girls, you can laugh at
tight shoes, or damp, corn-pulling
weather, big bumpy corns, calluses
on the soles of your feet, corns be
tween the toes, hard and soft corns,
It All Off With Hit Fierce Cora Now
'Cets-h' U Magic"
it you will just touch the com or
callus with a fw drops of 'Gets-It.'
What a blessed relief it gives to
orn pains! You won't limp any
more; you can enjoy the dance
very minute. Then to see how
that corn or callus will come right
off complete, like a banana peel and
Without the least pain, is just won
tierfal. Gets-It' is the biggest seller
arnoM; corn removers in the world
today simply because it is eo won
derfully simple and always worka
Be sure you get 'Gets-It.'"
"Gets-It" is sold at all druggists
Cypu need pay no more than 25 cents
a bottle), or sent on receipt of price
bjr 33, Lawrence & Co., Chicago. I1L
Sold in Lumberton and recommend
ed as the world's best corn remedy by
Pope Drug Co., and Grantham Bros.
and cottonseed meal are likely to
combine to cause the crop produced
to keep within the demands; but if
the South fails to produce tie food
and feed crops required, and more and
larger crops of these kinds are re
nuired than ever before in our hisiory,
it will be little short of a calamity.
There are at ieast four good rea
sons why the South should produce all
her food and feed supplies possible:
First, in order that those we have
previously bought from other sections
may go to our European allies; sec
ond, in order that the railroads can
carry war materials and food supplies
to the sea coast for shipment to the
allied armies; third, if we do not pro
duce them we may not get them, or
if we are able to get them, they will
cost too much; fourth, if we produce
what we need and sell them to our
selves at the prices they would cost
us if we bought them, or if we sell
them at the market prices, they will
be extremely profitable crops to grow.
But we must also grow as much or
more cotton than last year.
The world is beginning to recognize
that cotton is a food as well as a cloth
ing crop, and that we need all the cot
tonseed oil and cottonseed meal that
we can produce; but we must not in
crease the acreage planted to cotton,
for the reasons already stated.
If we need more cotton we ought to
produce it on less acres. There may
be doubt if we need more cotton, but
granting that 10 or 15 per cent more
cotton could be used without reducing
the price materially, or below a prof
itable figure, we should produce that
increase on the same or a reduced
acreage. A slogan has been suggest
ed for the South of "10 per cent more
cotton on 10 per cent less acreage.
To make the task easier, although
the other is perfectly easy, or at least
to make it more attractive to those
who believe the production should be
kept down in order to insure high
prices, we suggest, "all the cotton we
can grow on 10 per cent less acreage."
We need the acreage saved for food
and feed crops. It is entirely feasible
to grow all the cotton needed on 10
per cent less acreage than we plant
ed last year, and if we secure the
larger yields by better cultivation, bet
ter fertilization, etc., the cotton crop
will be more profitable.
A 10 per cent reduction in acreage
would mean the planting of 31,140,000
acres to cotton in 1918, and to produce
the cotton made in 1917 would only
require a yield of about 175 pounds
of lint cotton per acre. Surely we
could have no safer or wiser slogan
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E. J. BRITT
Attorney at Law
Offices over Pope Drug Company.
ill practice iu all courts. Prompt
attention given to all business.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS
Itephen Mclntyre, R. c. Uwr,
James D. Proctor
McINTYRE, LAWRENCE
PROCTOR
Attorneys and Counsellors at L
LUMBERTON, N. C
Practice in State and Federal Court
Prompt attention given to all busing
.somas L. Johnson E. M. Johnson
JOHNSON & JOHNSON
Attorneys and Counselors at Law
LUMBERTON, N. C.
Practice in State and Federal Courts.
Notary Public in Office. Offices over
irst National Bank.
for 1918 than "All the cotton possi
ble on 10 per cent less acreage."
To make 10 per cent more cotton
than we made in 1917, which is all
the cotton we shall need, on 10 per
cent less acreage than we planted in
1917, we would only have to make
190 pounds of lint cotton per acre.
We beat that yield in 1914 on a larger
acreage. "All the cotton possible cn
10 per cent less acreage."
"Win the War For Permanent
Peace."
"Win the war for permanent peace"
is the title for a national convention
called by former President Taft and
a committee of prominent men and
women to meet in Philadelphia from
March 16 to 18. The name, accord
ing to Mr. Taft was chosen because it
offers a "rallying cry in the present
war crisis."
The convention will be held under
the auspices of the League to Enforce
Peace and Mr. Taft, as head of the
organization, will preside. Other
members of the committee include
Cardinal Gibbons, Samuel Gompers, A.
Lawrence Lowel, president of Har
vard university; Dr. Anna Howard
Shaw, United States Senator John
Sharp Williams of Mississippi, Gov
ernor Capper of Kansas, and Cyrus
H. K. Curtis, Philadelphia publisher.
The call for conventions states the
object as follows:
"To sustain the determination of our
people to fight until Prassian mili
tarism has been defeated; confirm op
position to a premature peace and
serious attention upon the only ad
vantage the American people are hop
ing to gain from the war a perma
nent peace guaranteed by a leagua of
nations."
Germans Rejoice Over Peace With
Russia.
Amsterdam Dispatch, March 4.
The German press greets the advent
of peace with Russia as a master
stroke. Flags are flying everywhere
and the schools will have a holiday to
morrow. The Leipzig Neuste Nachrichten's
Berlin correspondent says that nego
tiations with Serbia and Montenegro
are a matter of a few weeks, as both
like Rumania, are out of the war and
must sign peace.
The Kolnische Volkszeitung say a:
"Peace in the east give us one free
hand and we now can turn with all
our strength to the west. Should not
that make the enemy peoples reflect ? "
The Coming Campaign.
Red Springs Citizen.
This montli New Hanover county
will hold its primary to nominate
county and legislative officers. They
are indeed lucky to have the contest
so early. Robeson's primary will be
in June in line with other counties of
the State, and in the State of Robeson
the political pot is already beginning
to simmer, especially along legisla-
A. W. McLean Dickson McLean
L &. Varser Junius J. Goodwin
Me LEAN, VARSER & McLEAN
Attorneys at Law
jttte on second floor National Banc
of Lumberton building.
,UBERTON, NORTH. CAROLINA
JOHN D. CAN AD Y
Attorney and Counselor at Law
Practice in all Courts
ST. PAULS, N. C.
Office Days:
Mondays' 9 a. m. to 3 p.
Thursdays 9 a. m. to 3 p.
Saturdays 9 a. m. to 3 p.
m.
m.
m.
THOMAS CLARENCE JOHNSON,
M. D.
Physician and Surgeon
OFFICE OVER McMILLAN S
Rooms 4-5-6-7.
PHONES
Office 47, Residence 175
STEPHENS A BARNES
Funeral Directors and
Embalmers
LUMBERTON, N. C.
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I." A. McNeill, Jr. H. J. Singleton
McNEILL-SINGLETON
Lumberton, North Carolina
WW practice in all courts. Busines
attended to promptly
looms 8 and 4 McLeod huddin, cor.
ner Elm and 4th Streets
t. a. McNeill
Lawyer
Land titles and law of execaton
and administrators special attend?
Office, Fifth street, west of p
National Bank. Practice in al! Co rtx
Lumberton, N. C.
DR. WRIGHT
OSTEOPATH
ELM STREET
Phone Office 37, Residence 303
EL E. STACY,
Attorney-at-Law.
Lumberton, N. C.
fraetleo in State and Federal Court
JMcm in First National Bank Bids
RUSSELL S. BEAM, M. D
Lumberton, . - N. C.
Practice limited to Eye, Ear
Nose, and Throat '
Office closed for duration of
war. .
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JOHN KNOX, M. D
Physician and Surgeon
Office Phone 26; Residence
Phone 54
LUMBERTON, N C.
DR. H. T. POPE, M. D.
Physician and Surgeon.
Special attention given treatment
of skin cancer.
LUMBERTON, N. C.
Office over Pope Drug Store.
LIFE
C. V. BROWN
INSURANCE
Leading Companies Represented '
Office: Cotton Mills Building.
tive lines. We hear of sereral candi
dates who have the matter under !
sideration. ....
There is more or less criticism of
Congressman Godwin about the things
he hasn't done for his district, one
especially with reference to the loca
tion of the various cantonments. We
have heard the name of Hon. L. R.
Varser, of Lumberton, being freely
spoken of as a most suitable man, also
Hon. L. Clayton Grant, of Wilming
ton. Both are able men, and if one or
both should enter the race, would
surely make somebody take notice. As
the weather grows warmer till June,
we suppose politics, county and Stau.
will do likewise.
ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE.
Having qualified as administrator f th
estates of J. T. Barker and Mrs. Ma ;-.! Br
ker, both deceased, late of the county of Robe
son, State of North Carolina, this is U- lotifj
all persons having claims against said es
tates to present them to the undersigned t
Wilmington, N. C, on or nefore February IS
1919, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of
their recovery. All persons (indebted to said
estate will please make immediate payment
This February IT, 1918.
J. J. MOORE.
Administrator of the estates of J. I. Erkr
and Mrs. Maggie Barker.
Wilmington, N. C, 420 Campbell Street
2 14 6 hurs.
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